Daily Archives Monday, November 2008

FriendFeed Brings the Firehose to IM

Last week, FriendFeed added an IM feature, allowing you bring the information firehose into your favorite IM client.
I’m a fan of FriendFeed, but it’s very hard to control the noise level. Typically, each person you subscribe to has several streams of information, e.g. a blog, Twitter, Google Reader, etc., making the amount of noise significantly [...]

5 Recommendations About Cursor FOR Loops in Oracle PL/SQL

A cursor FOR loop is a PL/SQL loop statement. It is a loop that is associated with a cursor embedded within the loop boundary.

There are two types of cursor FOR loops: SQL Cursor FOR loop and Explicit Cursor FOR Loop.

In SQL Cursor FOR loops, you include the text of a query directly in the FOR [...]

JDeveloper 11g certification matrices

I stumbled across (what I think is) some new(ish) documentation for JDeveloper 11g today under the Install Notes parent page, which I thought might be useful to some readers.

From the Install Notes page you can access documentation on JDeveloper 11g certified platforms, deprecated features and third party software libraries: