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OraQA Live!

As Tom Kyte blogged earlier today, OraQA is up and running and waiting for your questions and answers.

I had the idea of OraQA when I was browsing The ColdFusion Cookbook and I thought it would be great to have a similar site for the Oracle community.

In no particular order, I would like to thank the following Oracle bloggers for their help with the initial launch of OraQA:

And of course Tom Kyte.

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Filed in Oracle on 16 Jan 06 | Tags:


Reader's Comments

  1. |

    Eddie: I’d prefer you to take my name off the list of acknowledge-ees. I disapprove of the site, I told you so in email, and I did nothing to help you set it up. I don’t wish to seem ungracious, and in every other respect I have the highest regard for your contributions on matters Oracle and non-Oracle… but leaving me in a list of acknowledgements implies a degree of support or approval I did not and cannot give.

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    Howard, I meant to acknowledge the people who, at least, took the time to reply to my request for feedback (even with disapproval or criticism), and I still want to thank you for that.

    Anyway, I have removed your name from the above list as per your request.

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    Well, I’ve made a contribution to the Q&A. There’s something to Howard’s argument that the reduced visibility of the comments in comparison to the main post is not ideal. I believe that in the blogger template, it is possible to show comments without the need to click on a link. For the blog format, it makes sense to limit comments to the article pages, but if WordPress has the same facility, it may be worth giving it a try (at least on the monthly archive page).

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    Thanks Gary for your contribution. I did make a slight change to the format of the title to make it look like a question.

    As far as comments are concerned, I’m not sure displaying comments with an article in a multi-article web page is a good thing. Take AskTom for example, comments are listed underneath the question on one page dedicated for that question.

    I agree that keeping up with new comments is important, that’s why a notification system is currently in place on OraQA:

    1- The author of the question/answer will be notified by e-mail whenever a new comment is posted to his/her post.

    2- Any registered user who is interested in a particular post can subscribe to it and be notified of followup comments via e-mail, with or without posting any comments

    3- Any registered user who is interested in a particular post can subscribe to it and be notified of followup comments via a comment specific RSS feed, with or without posting any comments

    I will always be looking for ways to make things better and easier. For example, I will be adding a link on the main page to a global comment RSS feed so users can subscribe to any new comment on any post.

    Thanks again Gary.