{"id":8105,"date":"2003-09-18T18:49:51","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T18:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2003-09-18T18:49:51","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T18:49:51","slug":"superhero-take-2-student-saves-peers-from-peoplesoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8105","title":{"rendered":"Superhero, Take 2? – Student saves peers from PeopleSoft!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I’d post this story I discovered<\/a> today because it is an interesting tale of big corporate and institutional failure, and how a 1st year student saved himself and his fellow students a whole lot of time with a little skill and imagination.<\/p>\n

To make a long story short, It seems the system<\/a> the Univerisity of Alberta had paid big coin to manage its students (allegedly and tellingly hacked together from an inventory control system) was a mess, and the U was planning to ditch paper altogether, dooming people to hours of pointing, clicking and swearing.<\/p>\n

So, one enterprising student<\/a> decided that something had to be done, and he was the guy to do it. His first cut took 5 days and was already a big help at that point. He was initially hosting it on his own tab, but now the Student Union handles that<\/a>, though the University still can’t take a helpful position due to contractual requirements. For some more details the student union discussion<\/a> board is interesting reading.<\/p>\n

I could take the position that we’re all doomed by megacorporate control of computing (and I usually do), but this time, I’m just plain tickled to see one guy do a good job with what he had before him and help everyone in the process. <\/p>\n

(if you can’t get the first link, sorry – the show was not yet posted when I wrote this so I had to make an educated guess)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought I’d post this story I discovered today because it is an interesting tale of big corporate and institutional failure, and how a 1st year student saved himself and his fellow students a whole lot of time with a little skill and imagination. To make a long story short, It seems the system the … <\/p>\n

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