Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Moving Home
As I alluded to here I have been looking at moving and redesigning the site for a small while now. The move is more than a simple transfer of blog host from my ISP though.
The new site at OraWin.Info, is designed to continue the existing blog on, as I say above, various thoughts, discoveries and otherwise maybe interesting Oracle related content, but also to serve as a resource focussed on the Oracle community running on, or developing on, the Microsoft Windows platform. You will find a forum dedicated to both Oracle and Windows topics and as well as the existing blog entries I hope to be including community contributed content, such as links, relevant blogs from both the Oracle and Microsoft communities, scripts, presentations and whitepapers.
The existing blog entries have been transferred, although this site will remain in its current state for the forseeable future, I am aware that there are some formatting issues - especially with citations - and would be grateful if these were pointed out where I have missed them.
The new site will require registration for the ability to add commentary, send in links (I'll always attribute user submitted links) and participation in the forum, though all the content in both the main site and the forum is anonymously accessible. The email addresses that are required for subscription will never be sold, spammed or indeed used at all by me for anything other than site related mail (for example if you choose to you may get an email that alerts you to forum responses and that sort of thing).
Like the new site!
Only one problem I discovered so far, I managed to register OK and navigate through the main site and then to the forum.
No posts as yet in forum, so wanted to go back to main page and have a look at the articles etc, but I couldn't get back!
'Home' button just refreshes the forum page, the only way to do it was to use the back button in explorer (yack!)
I may be me missing something, but thought I'd let you know in case it isn't just me being daft!
Lisa.
Mark Rittman creating a new one for BI issues I can sort of understand, since that's a very specialised area, and the people doing it for a living probably want to keep the signal-to-generalised-noise level very high. But Oracle and Windows? I can't think of a more generalist subject, and there are already plenty of places available for questions/answers on it.
Never mind fragmenting tablespaces! I suppose one day we might get to the 'Quark of the Oracle Forum World', some forum so tiny where it becomes impossible to break it into anything smaller, but current experience suggests its a long way away.
I think they call it sub-optimisation, Niall.
