Jumping off a moving train may be an easier way to end your life. If you do get through this, you will have only a couple of years left to live. After all, trying to make sense of PeopleSoft requires you to be an MBA, a Ph.d and a programmer to boot!

To acquire all these skills, you will have no time for any fun or (re)productivity! After all, programming is constantly rejuvenating itself. From one language springs forth another, and yet another.. like C to C++ and then Java... and if this is not bad enough there are inter-language marriages.... Visual Basic, Visual C++, PowerBuilder and of course, PeopleSoft.

All this can easily drive one nuts. Do you really think that you want to remember some obscure function that formats text? Or one that counts the number of i's in Mississippi? Does it make sense to have the screen colour go red when you tell a dirty joke? If this is really what you want to do with PeopleSoft... we wish you the best and will send your next of kin a condolence note if you give us your e-mail address.

However, if you are really interested in getting down to having some fun and learning how to use PeopleSoft the practical way...then hop on aboard. Mark this page and tell your friends, 'cos we will take you on a ride of your lifetime. In years months weeks days hours minutes we will have you writing out a PeopleSoft application that works. (We would have said seconds, but decided that 600 seconds, which was the best recorded speed, was a bit too much to qualify.)

 The material written so far includes: 

1. Step-by-step instructions on how to use PeopleSoft Financials in any organization. Learn how to implement PeopleSoft Financials yourself. You would end up paying a few million dollars for a course that teaches you all this stuff.  
2. How to port data from one RDBMS to another in PeopleSoft.  
3. How PeopleSoft Financials passes parameters to and from COBOL programs that contain the business logic. Use this knowledge to write your own business rules or modify the ones that PeopleSoft Financials uses.  
4. How to exchange data between PeopleSoft products and SAP. 
5. Understanding PeopleCode - how it is saved within PeopleSoft and how it is optimized for use with panels.  
6. How PeopleSoft Financials was written; write your own version of PeopleSoft Financials. Create panels similar to what PeopleSoft Financials uses and learn how to do more than what the PeopleSoft Financials panels do.  
7. How nVision was written. Understand that nVision is just C code that uses DDE to interact with Microsoft Excel.  
8. Understand the Virtual Approver / Virtual Router. Probably the single largest piece of code within PeopleSoft. 
9. A PeopleSoft Spy. We have written a spy program that captures everything that PeopleSoft does. See what SQL statements are executed and what data is retrieved. The PeopleSoft log files do not give you the data that is returned by the SQL scripts and they are of absolutely no use as far as understanding the COBOL programs are concerned. Our spy will give you tremendous insight into the functioning of PeopleSoft products.  
10. We do not know what else. There is so much more to PeopleSoft, we do not know what other points to write here. But whatever there is to PeopleSoft, this site will give you! All the material presented here is to be published as books also for all of you who do not want to download or read off the web. 

Sure, you may not understand everything about how it works, but with a few examples you will get there.

 There are three books that you can choose from:

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• PeopleSoft Financials Quick And Complete 
• PeopleSoft PeopleCode Secrets  
• PeopleSoft Basics and Integration with Third Party Products

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