{"id":879,"date":"2006-01-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2006-01-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T12:00:00","slug":"oraqa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/oraqa\/","title":{"rendered":"OraQA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eddie Awad<\/a> asked me to take a look at the new OraQA<\/a> site that he’s set up. I was pretty tied up with other things last week and Eddie was mid-implementation over the weekend, so it’s taken me until today to get to it (and for goodness’ sake, Tom<\/a>, give the rest of us a day or two, eh? Only kidding …). The lame question and answer I submitted was just to test the interface!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I must admit that when I received Eddie’s email, my first thought was back to a comment that Nuno made on an earlier blog expressing concern about the fragmentation of the Oracle community caused by so many forums, blogs, listservs etc. (The fact I can’t find the comment only adds to my feeling that I need web design lessons from Howard Rogers<\/a>.) CDOS<\/a> has provided a free service for many years now (although I’m not completely convinced myself), asktom<\/a> has grown into a fantastic resource (thanks to the search facility ) and I was particularly conscious of the Co-operative FAQ<\/a> which seems very similar to OraQA to me. Then there are useful forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As usual, I like Eddie’s design and comittment to growing the community, but if there are many sites serving a particular purpose, maybe it’s a distraction? I suppose that the community will decide what they find the most useful in the end and I hope Eddie won’t think I’m being too critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eddie Awad asked me to take a look at the new OraQA site that he’s set up. I was pretty tied up with other things last week and Eddie was mid-implementation over the weekend, so it’s taken me until today to get to it (and for goodness’ sake, Tom, give the rest of us a… Continue reading OraQA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":877,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/18\/oraqa-part-two\/","url_meta":{"origin":879,"position":0},"title":"OraQA (part two)","date":"January 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, well, well ... there has certainly been a lot of chat about Eddie's new OraQA site over the past couple of days, to a degree that I wanted to clarify some of my own thoughts after reading other blogs. 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