6 Useful Links for 2008-12-29
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Ruby On Rails and Grails are two popular MVC webframeworks. Rails uses the Ruby language, and Grails uses Groovy. This post compares Grails vs Rails.
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How many ways are there to compile invalid objects?
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Use Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile to develop a mobile Web application optimized for the iPhone.
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Learn how to build and deploy Oracle Database 10g Express Edition virtual images in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud—the "do-it-yourself" way.
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What can you tell us about Oracle? Hidden tables, inner workings of …, secret stored procs, package that has good utils…
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The PL/SQL Unit Testing for Oracle framework, PLUTO, is the open source, object oriented, xUnit-based system for developing unit tests that attempts to fill the gap in Oracle unit testing.
White, White Everywhere!
We are having a white pre-Christmas here in Oregon. The Portland metro area has been hit by a major snow storm. It is the biggest storm I have seen since I moved here ten years ago.
So, I wanted to capture a quick snapshot of what it was like around my neighborhood after the storm ended earlier today. I also wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
By the way, I shot the above video using my new Flip MinoHD Camcorder. I love it.
Filed in Personal with 7 Comments | Tags: snowAre You Just a PL/SQL Developer?
In an email he sent to me last week, Jason William wanted to get my thoughts on the future of Oracle PL/SQL. He wrote:
Will PL/SQL still be a big skillset in demand? Or will it convert to Java (Oracle seems to pushing a lot of middleware with Java?) I was just curious because talking with some friends, alot seem to think Java is being pushed pretty heavily by Oracle… I am always curious as to what the future holds and what [Oracle] skillsets I should learn.
Jason also forwarded this LinkedIn thread in the Oracle SQL and PL/SQL group, in which Bob writes:
What keeps PL/SQL developers up at night? What technologies are you most worried about? Excited about? Is enhancing and extending the value of your PL/SQL skills a top priority for you?
Scott chimes in:
I know that my problem is simply trying to get a handle on all the new technologies and guess which one(s) I need to invest my time and money in. Is it even possible to be “just” a PL/SQL developer anymore?
Scott has a point. Nowadays, being an Oracle developer means more than just knowing SQL and PL/SQL (which is always expected from an Oracle database developer). If you really want to enhance your “Oracle developer” career you have to learn and have experience with other languages and technologies. For example, it’s important to learn XML and related technologies, Java and Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript…), and others.
What do you think? is knowing just PL/SQL enough to have a successful career? What does being an “Oracle developer” mean to you? What advice do you give to Jason?
Filed in Oracle with 10 Comments | Tags: developer, pl/sqlOracle Rich Enterprise Applications
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Filed in Oracle with Comments Off | Tags: adf, jdeveloperWhere Is That Oracle Virtual Book?
The advanced search in Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) documentation library gives you the option to format search results into a virtual book.
This is a nice little feature that formats your search results as a single combined table of contents, making it easier to scan through similar topics from different books. For example here is a virtual book about materialized views. It took about 15 seconds for the search engine to return results formatted as a virtual book, not very fast.
What about Oracle Database 11g?
It seems that the virtual book option is missing from the Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1) documentation library. I could not find it on the advanced search page. If it is there and I missed it, please let me know. Until then, I figured out a simple way to transform an 11g search result into a virtual book. Just append “&vbook=1″ to the end of the search results URL. For example:
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/search?word=materialized+view
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/search?word=materialized+view&vbook=1
Even though the virtual book format option is not exposed on the advanced search page, it is mentioned and explained on the 11g search help page. Hmm!
You could also bookmark this page http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/vbook and use it whenever you want to generate a virtual book for any search term.
A new search plugin
Finally, the easiest option of all is to install the Oracle DB 11.1 Virtual Book search plugin in your browser (Firefox or IE7). If you use Google Chrome, here are the instructions on how to add a new search engine.
