This is How You Should Ask for Help
In this video interview with ZDNet.com.au, Kyte explains how many questions he receives equate to “my car won’t start”. “I’m going to do it to you — my car won’t start, why? Give me the solution. I’m not going to tell you what errors I see on the dashboard; I’m not going to tell you if I filled the car up with gas recently; I’m not going to tell you if it’s making a noise or not making a noise; but my car won’t start, why not? There’s insufficient data to even begin to answer a question like that.” Kyte also explains how the internet has changed how questions are asked, and how he doesn’t reply with RTFM.
via How developers should ask for help: Blogs – Null Pointer – ZDNet Australia (via)
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That’s what Dapper allows you to do. It allows you to build web applications and mashups using data from any website on the Internet.
For example, AskTom has three RSS feeds available: just updated, hot articles and most popular. The just updated feed includes updates to new and old questions. It would have been nice if there was a feed for new questions only, in other words, a feed that gets updated only when a new question (and Tom’s answer) is posted on the website.
Using Dapper, I was able to create such a feed. Drum roll please…… introducing the “AskTom – by first asked” RSS feed. And here is the “AskTom – by first asked” Dapp.
I had fun playing with Dapper. Although there are other services, like Feed43 and Ponyfish, that allow you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any web page, unlike others, in addition to RSS, Dapper can also output XML, HTML, CSV, JSON, Google gadgets, Netvibes modules and more.
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I went to asktom.oracle.com this morning and I was greeted by the ORA-01688 error. Take a look: (more…)
