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Donald, you have a very interesting point of view. It should be fun to watch indeed.

@Joel, You're right. How did I miss that?! I find it hard to believe that "sharing code" is under the Don'ts. Maybe they made a mistake, they meant to put it under the Do's. I'll send them an email to inquire about this.

Karl, yes it is an excellent document and I read it with very much interest.

You're welcome Brian.

It was nice meeting you again. Thanks for attending the meetup.

I hope so too, but you'll never know ;)

Indeed Brian :)

Thanks Brian. By the way, nice use of the DUMP function.

Hmm! What is the difference between trim(sysdate) and to_char(sysdate)?

John, More RSS goodness is great! Looking forward to meeting with you at OOW.

Thanks Don. We are having fun with Ubiquity, aren't we? I know John has been interested in providing RSS feeds for Oracle documentation, but I'm not sure about any specific plans.

Indeed, if you want to trim more than one character on either or both ends of a string, TRIM is not the function to use.

@joel Ah! The good old days... I agree that Usenet died. I have not posted to nor read any newsgroup for a long time.

OK guys, implementation done. OraNA now aggregates the blogs.oracle.com feed. I have also created the OraNA updates Twitter channel (RSS) to publish site news and recently added blogs.

@Jake yes, I was thinking only of blogs whose URL starts with http://blogs.oracle.com. Employee blogs that are not on blogs.oracle.com will continue to be aggregated by OraNA.info. So, no need to buy me lunch, however, having a lunch with you is always a treat.

@Chris Hmm! In addition to the main feed, your blog is also aggregated under the category "Java Tools and Frameworks" http://orana.info/category/java/ (RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/orana_java) I sure can see your latest blog post there. The RSS feed has the latest 20 entries at any time.

Blog on...

@Fuad @Bradd thanks for your feedback.
@Bradd you should brush up on your math skills :)

@Gary what I can do is to add a new category to OraNA.info called "Recently Added" for example. This category will have a feed that you can subscribe to. Every time I add a new blog to the aggregator, I will also add a quick post to the "Recently Added" category on OraNA.info. I just have to remember doing that, though.

@LewisC you're reading my mind :)

You're welcome Gareth and thanks for the hosting offer.

@John yes, HTTPURIType is very handy. I wish it could handle basic HTTP authentication as well.

@NTamms: 1.5 is better than 1.2, that's for sure.

Hi Marco,

The browser search plugin for Oracle-realted forums (powered by Google) has proven to be very handy.

@Laurent: I'm assuming that the WM_OVERLAPS needs the Workspace Manager to be installed/enabled.

@John: OVERLAP_CNT seems useful. Feel free to share the link to the code on your website.

Thanks Amardeep.

Thanks David.