Comments on: ★ Underscores make a difference

By: Tom_Fox

Tom_Fox — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:43:31 +0000

Cool.. I was wondering how in the world that happened. I guess I should read the fine manual, eh?

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:08:00 +0000

Tom,

It looks like that your blog, like mine, is on wordpress. Wordpress supports "pingbacks" and "trackbacks". That means, whenever your post has a link to another blog, wordpress tries to send a ping to that other blog. If the linked blog supports pinging, your post will usually appear in the comment section as it did here.

In wordpress there are two places where you can control this:

WP admin --> Options --> Discussions: "Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)" and "Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)". I have them both checked on my blog.
WP admin --> Write --> Write Post: "Allow Pings". I also have this one checked by default.

Hope this helps.

By: Tom_Fox

Tom_Fox — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:48:20 +0000

So tell me, how does this article know I linked to you? I’m ignorant on all blog technology it seems.

By: Fox Family » My first Oracle book

Fox Family » My first Oracle book — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:16:33 +0000

[...] One of the blogs I frequent has found an errata that you should check out before continuing with reading. [...]

By: Tom_Fox

Tom_Fox — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:08:55 +0000

Good stuff! My copy of the book is on its way. Lucky for me, an Amazon.com distribution center is down the road. Shame they don’t allow pick-ups.

By: Eddie Awad

Eddie Awad — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:34:33 +0000

Tom, hopefully I won't find any additional errata, but if I do I'll make sure I e-mail you about it.

Thank you for this great book.

By: Thomas Kyte

Thomas Kyte — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:37:04 +0000

Eddie — thanks, in the future you can drop me an email too. I file the errata and it’ll get subsequent prints fixed.