http://andrej.racchvs.com On Oracle and Java Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:53:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thought i might try another one, while i'm testing blogging clients. This time i'm using blogdesk. Ok, here we go with the images: No copy, paste, but you can insert an image from the clipboard through a menu. Not as fast, but will work. And the first time i tried it, ... http://andrej.racchvs.com/archives/2006/08/16/now-testing-blogdesk/ I've looked at using a desktop blog editor before, but couldn't find one which i liked. My main reason for using a blog client would be to avoid having to upload images. I just want to write a text, drag some images into the text and save it to my ... http://andrej.racchvs.com/archives/2006/08/16/testing-ms-live-writer/ When I read the summary of Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: Search Engine as Leeches on the Web, my first reaction was what? You gotta be kidding me. His summary is as follows: Search engines extract too much of the Web's value, leaving too little for the websites that actually create the content. ... http://andrej.racchvs.com/archives/2006/01/09/search-engines-eating-all-profit/ Some of the posts i've written on the IT-eye weblog this last week: Finding jar library dependencies using JarJar, Productivity, choice and ADF metadata and Jwebunit, untrusted certificates, https and proxies. http://andrej.racchvs.com/archives/2005/07/09/more-posts-on-the-it-eye-weblog/ I've just written my first entry for the new IT-eye weblog: Viewing changesets in CVS. http://andrej.racchvs.com/archives/2005/06/30/it-eye-weblog/ Infoworld is reporting that JDeveloper will be gratis: Oracle to offer JDeveloper tool for free. Out of the box, JDeveloper has a lot more functionality than Eclipse in many areas. Visual JSP editing, visual support for JSF, support for some of the UML diagrams, wizard support for it's ORM frameworks ... http://andrej.racchvs.com/archives/2005/06/24/jdeveloper-free-as-in-beer/ There's a very interesting post on Veerle's blog: A response from an accessibility consultant from BlindSurfer. It seems like web standards, xhtml and css are not improving accessability for blind people, yet. Apparently, screenreader manufactures are as slow implementing support for web standards as some other big software companies. ... http://andrej.racchvs.com/archives/2005/06/23/think-web-standards-improve-accessability-you-might-be-wrong/ This blog may look weird for a while, i'm upgrading it to wordpress 1.5. http://andrej.racchvs.com/archives/2005/06/21/upgrading-to-wordpress-15/ Wilfred's story about Jules de Ruijter's presentation on their migration from Designer to Developer made it to OTN's frontpage! I have to agree with Wilfred, the presenation, Oracle Designer versus Oracle JDeveloper, was really interesting, Jules is a good speaker who likes to provoke his audience. http://andrej.racchvs.com/archives/2005/06/20/wilfreds-summary-of-cbs-migration-from-designer-to-developer-on-otn/ Javaddicts and the Amis blog are reporting about executing pl/sql statements from Ant: Executing Oracle PL/SQL from Ant, Executing PL/SQL from ANT - how to keep the format straight. I've also written an Ant target for my current project where we execute pl/sql. The pl/sql queries domain values from some tables ... http://andrej.racchvs.com/archives/2005/06/15/executing-plsql-from-ant-how-to-get-the-output/