iPAD POTENTIAL AND PROGRESS
I downloaded the iPad version of Oracle
Magazine with great enthusiasm. I was a bit disappointed to see it is just the magazine content
moved onto the iPad with the same format. I’m
not comfortable reading with the default size.
Anil Shafeeque
The editors reply: We have been working to
improve the user experience on our iPad application. In the current version of the Oracle
Magazine iPad app, you will find a much more
readable and interactive experience in portrait
view. Not only is the default size larger, but we’ve
broken the page elements apart for better readability. You can now zoom in on figures and code
listings, too. We’ve also added more interactive
elements, including animated technical illustrations. We hope this will improve your experience
with Oracle Magazine on the iPad. Let us know
what you think.
MORE JAVA!
I’m an enterprise architect and am well versed
with the technology landscape in many industries. Given the depth of Java’s penetration
in the industry and its wide adoption by customers, it seems like a good opportunity to have
one to two pages in Oracle Magazine dedicated
to Java.
Ramkumar (Ram) Jeyaraman
The editors reply: We agree that Java needs
more magazine coverage, but we also believe
that one or two more pages per issue in this
magazine is not enough. That’s why Oracle is
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ARE YOU EXCELLENT?
Can a company submit a nomination for the
Oracle Magazine Editors Choice Awards?
Amanda Stewart
The editors reply: The Oracle Magazine
Editors Choice Awards have been renamed the
Technologist of the Year awards, and they are
now part of the Oracle Excellence Awards. You
may nominate individuals at your company
for the Technologist of the Year awards;
nominations are due by June 30, 2011. Please
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BROKEN BLOCKS
I think the last block to run in the “Name
Those Blocks!” section of Steven Feuerstein’s
“Building with Blocks” article (March/April
2011, bit.ly/i9rSxd) has a typo. Steven asks us
to create the function hello_message, creates a
procedure (hello_place) that uses this function,
and then says:
I can also call the function from within a
SQL statement. In the following block, I
insert the message into a database table:
BEGIN
INSERT INTO message_table (message_
date, MESSAGE_TEXT)
VALUES (SYSDATE, hello_place
('Chicago'));
END;
I think that the hello_place procedure should
instead be the hello_message function, because
I don’t think a procedure will work here. (I get
ORA-06550|00904.) So:
BEGIN
INSERT INTO message_table (message_
date, MESSAGE_TEXT)
VALUES (SYSDATE, hello_message
('Chicago'));
END;
Either way, keep up the great articles!
Alan Turnbull
Steven Feuerstein replies: Alan, many thanks
for pointing this out. Yes, you are right; the function must be called, not the procedure.
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