I came across this Chinese website that has hundreds of e-books about Oracle, Microsoft, Dreamweaver, Flash, Java, PHP, mySQL, Linux, Cisco and many many more, all ready for your online reading pleasure. I do not think this is legal. At least, it is as legal as software piracy.

According to Jeff Jarvis, the book is an outmoded means of communicating information. He lists many problems with books. According to him, books:

Are frozen in time without the means of being updated and corrected. Have no link to related knowledge, debates, and sources. Create, at best, a one-way relationship with a reader. Try to teach […]

I have just noticed that OTN has now an Oracle 10g Book Center. The page lists Oracle books from Oracle Press, Apress, Elsevier Digital Press, O’Reilly & Associates, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Rampant, TechPress and Sams Publishing.

Each book has a direct link to Amazon.com and most of them have sample chapters for you to […]

Ning has been up and running for a while now, but only recently I had a bit of time to play with it. In case you do not know, Ning is a free online service for building social applications that enable anyone to match, transact, and communicate with other people.

Triggered by Francois’s comment, I have created a new collaborative book on oradot: The Oracle Resources Book. This is an online book that you can contribute to and I urge you to do so. The more Oracle community members add information to this book, the more useful it becomes. There are a lot of Oracle […]

I was setting up my environment to test out the examples in the book “Expert Oracle Database Architecture“. I started to set up runstats, a tool that measures the elapsed time, system statistics and latching. To use runstats, I (scott/tiger) needed access to some v$ tables (a.k.a. magic dynamic performance tables). On page xxxii of […]

Well, my wait is over and now I have the book. I’m not lucky enough to have it signed by Tom though, maybe volume 2?

I downloaded part of Tom Kyte’s newest book “Expert Oracle Database Architecture - 9i and 10g Programming Techniques and Solutions” from Tom’s blog and started reading with interest (Can’t wait until the book is available at Amazon). I got to page 25, “Setting Up Your Environment” and read through page 28 when I noticed the […]