Damn, my feed reader blew up on me today. It lost all my subscriptions. But luckily I was able to find almost all of my subscriptions again, at least my active ones. And even some new ones ;). I need to make sure my subscription list is being backed up, even if it is just […]
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Google under fire…
Today I came across two articles on (big) companies starting to attack Google. First one I read was that Oracle Whips Google-like Search into Shape for Enterprises. Oracle says that they found a blind spot that Google has left unexplored. They want to provide a google-like interface for the users to find the information they […]
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Steven Feuerstein has release a new version of Qute. This time he has added a raffle when you tell what you like and dislike about the product. I think this means that Qute will become production ready really soon.
Read morePL/SQL Developer Plug-in
I found a message on the PL/SQL Developer forum which requested a plug-in to change the selected text to InitCaps. I decided I could build this plug-in, so I did. You can find this plug-in on this site.
Read moreRaptor renamed
In one of my previous posts (actually my first post on this blog) I wrote about project Raptor. I think they are almost done with development since they seem to have changed the name to SQL Developer (via). The name can be easily confused with PL/SQL Developer. Maybe that’s just the idea. To get more hits on this product […]
Read moreKeep Alive
Keep Alive is a tool to prevent the screen saver from kicking in. Especially useful when you are watching a DVD on your computer. I have enhanced this tool to enable you to choose the screensaver from the tool. That is especially useful when your sysadmin has disabled the screensaver tab with a policy. I […]
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I came up with a new plug-in yesterday, inspired by the Scale… plugin by Scott Mattes. The problem I found with this plug-in was that it didn’t reuse the window. I primarily used this plug-in to find out the length of a selection in pl/sql developer. Maybe, when I have new ideas, I will […]
Read moreProject Raptor
Oracle has released the first version of project raptor. It is Oracles attempt to create an IDE for the developers of PL/SQL. Completely written in Java. First impression is that is is quite a nice tool, though I am not sure I will discard PL/SQL Developer for using this. I need to play around with it a […]
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