Oracle Support Mobile Edition Now Available

Excerpt from Oracle Announcement : This first release of My Oracle Support Mobile focuses on the most frequent customer activities, namely viewing and updating Service Requests (SRs). We plan to release additional capabilities in the near future. Pleas… more »
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Why Lines-of-Code is a Silly Metric

Using metrics to measure progress is not inherently bad, but you have to make sure that you measure meaningful things. Measuring business value delivered over time is a good idea (if you can find a way to do it). Measuring lines of code is not. Why? Because on its own, a line of code is not particularly meaningful. If programmer A takes 100 lines of code to achieve the same functionality that takes programmer B 10 lines, is A ten times as productive as B? Quite the opposite. more »
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PLSQL FTP Update

Though not published online yet, I have made the promised updates to the FTP code that will introduce the following : MPUT MGET LOB enhancement to expedite data transfers Enhanced Debugging XML Formatting of NLST Obscuration of Use… more »
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