A blog world exclusive, that’s how Mark Rittman broke the news about Tom Kyte’s new beard. Now, the list of top ten beards needs to be updated.

By the way, on a completely different topic, I spent a good portion of the weekend upgrading my blog to WordPress 2.3. It has tags now. It also has […]

Tom Johnson has a list of twenty usability tips for your blog. Does your blog follow these principles that distinguish good blogs from poor ones? I believe that mine does. Here is why. My blog:

Has a tag line that clearly identifies the topic of the blog: News, views, tips and tricks on Oracle, ColdFusion and […]

Just a quick note to say that some comment posts from my dear readers are being mistakenly caught by my anti-spam plugin and buried with hundreds of daily spam comments. This is getting out of hand and frustrating not only for me but for anyone who spends valuable time writing a comment just to find […]

By using the following two plugins, I was able to increase the page views on my blog by almost fifty percent. If you have a WordPress blog and don’t use these two plugins, you’re missing on features that can make your blog more useful and help your readers find your old posts a lot easier.

Ultimate […]

Here is my blog’s spam harvest for the weekend:

Most of the spam comments start with:

Very good site. Thanks for author! Your site is very cognitive. I think you will have good future. Great website! Bookmarked! I am impressed at your work! HI! I love this place!

And then followed by tens of links to you know what…

What have I […]

It is Sunday night and I’m sitting next to my wife Jasmine on the sofa in front of the TV. Jasmine is watching “Big Love” on HBO (a series about a guy who is married to three wives, poor guy!), and I have my laptop on my lap, trying to write some thoughts.

Well, I finally […]

If you’ve been looking around for a free blogging platform to publish your great ideas (or move your current blog), and you like to try out something new and different, wordpress.com may be what you’re looking for.

Previously, in order to get a blog on wordpress.com you had to have an invitation. But now it’s open […]

I like WordPress. I used to be a big Blogger.com fan, in fact, I still have my old blogspot blog. But, since I moved to WordPress, I realized how limited Blogger.com was and how amazing WordPress is. The fact that you can extend WordPress with the use of plugins, makes this blogging package even more […]