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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 »
PermalinkWhy 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 »
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 »
From-Spoofing
If you are getting spam from this domain, let me apologize in advance. Unfortunately, From-Spoofing is one of the most common spam methods in use for which there is no defense. Let me reassure you, that I have and never will participate in spam type acti… more »
Rams' ten principles of "good design"
Dieter Rams (born May 20, 1932 in Wiesbaden, Hesse) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.Is as little design as possible - Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity. more »
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