Hi all,
I want to first say thanks for Gilson and his whole team in GoldenGateBR for the very pleasant time on last Thursday’s conversation!
We spoke a bit of everything, but mostly over career, my historic on the community, and of course the grepOra blog.
Also many thanks for the ones who could connect and stay connected up to the end of the video. Here is the recording, if you will (it’s in Portuguese!).
Hi all!
We are glad to announce our version 2.0 is online!
We have been working with the same blog layout since 2015, as being we HAD to make a few improvements to accommodate all changes we had on our structure and also some things to make YOUR experience even better.
We did try to keep the layout as clean as possible, as you are used to. In case you find any big issue, broken link or similar, let us know!
There are of course tons of quick and tiny improvements here and there all over the pages and spaces. We have rebuilt ALL the pages, like the MEMBERS page. But those are the 4 main improvements.
You can expect for more soon:
We are glad to have you here. This is all for YOU!
I want to take some space here to also thank Gabriel Morás and Jociéli Maleico for helping out on this reimagination process. Thank you!
We wish you a Merry Christmas!
Please, copy and paste on any sqlplus. This is your gift for today:
set heading off;
set pages 5000;
SELECT DECODE(SIGN(FLOOR(maxwidth / 2) - ROWNUM),
1,
LPAD(' ', FLOOR(maxwidth / 2) - (ROWNUM - 1)) ||
RPAD('*', 2 * (ROWNUM - 1) + 1, ' *'),
LPAD('* * *', FLOOR(maxwidth / 2) + 3))
FROM all_objects, (SELECT 40 AS maxwidth FROM DUAL)
WHERE ROWNUM < FLOOR(maxwidth / 2) + 5
union all select '|GrepOra Team Wishes You a Merry Christmas!' from dual;
Surprise!
Enjoy!
Hello all!
We are very proud and happy to share with you our first book!
We made it as a celebration for the GrepOra’s 2 years, completed last Sunday (Jan 29th).
It has the top 200 posts published in this last 2 years for your appreciation. It’s, above all, a good opportunity to refresh some posts that are still actual and relevant. And it’s all free!
We compiled it as a best moments review also to engage new readers with the best past posts and reach that readers that enjoy to read a book in their mobile reading devices. Actually, we believe that writing material for this kind of media is the future (or the present), so if you prefer to read PDF, MOBI or EPUB in you Kindle, Ipad, or similar, specially for those who prefer the offline mode to not being bothered by social media notifications, instant messages and other: This is for you. 🙂
Download PDF
Download MOBI
Download EPUB
There is no chapters of any restrictedly fixed boundaries. However, to give a little sense, we kind of organized the posts by following this (using our blog categories):
This book is to above all, view, learn and review some curiosities, tips and some useful stuff for daily basis challenges and struggles on working with Oracle tech. But mostly to have fun! This is a book written by Oracle geeks to Oracle geeks.
Enjoy!
GrepOra Team.
Hello!
Today’s post is to share with you some information about what 2016 represented for GrepOra.com.
In 2016, the first official year of GrepOra.com, we had over 26,000 accesses from more than 160 different countries. Indeed, almost every country in the world was in GrepOra.com this year. And this is spectacular considering we discuss very specific topics about Oracle Database and Applications.
The accesses are still growing every day, which show us we can expect even bigger numbers to celebrate in 2017. See below our monthly accesses graph of 2016.
See below our accessing map of 2016.
Besides that, some accomplishments make us even prouder, like being recognized by OTN LA (Oracle Technology Network – Latin America) as a technical reference blog in Database Management and Performance category.
Since this recognition in June, we have the OTN LA logo in our blog page. Also since August, we have the GUOB logo, once I participated in last GUOB Tech Day as Official Blogger.
All this, however, was not achieved only by having the blog. Since the beginning we organized the weekly posting schedule and the author’s pages. The consistency prove itself by our monthly access growth. The organization and commitment to keep posting relevant content is what led us to this point.
Notwithstanding those numbers, recognitions, networking, self improvement in technical skills, writing and mindset changing, there is a rewarding feeling of giving back to community a little bit we took. Since I started as DBA, I sometimes used independent blogs and references in the most critical and desperate moments. This way, nothing is better than feeling useful for someone else. Don’t you think?
Be sure we are preparing lots of news and even more quality content in GrepOra.com for next year.
Thank you all and have a great New Year!
Matheus.
We wish you a Merry Christmas!
Please, copy and paste on any sqlplus window. This is your gift for today:
set heading off;
set pages 5000;
SELECT DECODE(SIGN(FLOOR(maxwidth / 2) - ROWNUM),
1,
LPAD(' ', FLOOR(maxwidth / 2) - (ROWNUM - 1)) ||
RPAD('*', 2 * (ROWNUM - 1) + 1, ' *'),
LPAD('* * *', FLOOR(maxwidth / 2) + 3))
FROM all_objects, (SELECT 40 AS maxwidth FROM DUAL)
WHERE ROWNUM < FLOOR(maxwidth / 2) + 5
union all select '|GrepOra Team Wishes You a Merry Christmas!' from dual;
Surprise!
Enjoy!
This first #GrepOra year had 96 different nationalities access our blog website. It make me very proud to see too many flags in our logs (I’d like this in my passport log history).
I would like wish cheers grepora readers.
Parabéns! Feliz cumpleaños, Happy birthday, Alles gute zum Geburstag!! 🙂
Hello guys,
This November GrepOra is completing 1 year!
It’s being a great adventure for all of us. In this first year we already shared 150 posts and had over 18k accesses!
Every month we keep having more access then the month before, and this is because of you. So thank you for reading, accessing and keeping us on track and motivated. 🙂
In October we had more than 3.500 accesses. We expect to keep sharing interesting subjects and grow even more for the next month and next year.
As way to celebrate that first year, we decided that, for the next Saturday on, I and all authors will make a post telling what GrepOra means to ourselves and what we learned in this past year.
And for you, thanks for your partnership and have a nice week! 😀
Hi Guys!
Today the blog crossed the 10k accesses in 2016. In this year, every month have more access than the month before it. So, we are growing every day together. And it’s beeing a pleasure to us.
This post is here to thank you for all supporting, visiting and specially for keeping us motivated to sharing every week our experiences and discovers.
Here are some cute images about 10k, that a I searched and couldn’t choose just one. 🙂
Hi all!
Last Monday we had the first GrepOra formal meeting (ok, it was a barbecue) to talk about the blog. As you know, we are friends from other situations, so it was pretty hard to focus, specially with some beer and wine…
Anyway, things were discussed include:
– Implement a ‘Posting Agenda‘ to organize and distribute the posts. It’s already done, take a look.
– Implement a ‘Event Schedule‘ about participations in meeting of community, presentations or other events we judge interessant. It’s a good site to place the link about this king osf stuffs. Its already done too, here.
– Review blog layout. Any suggestion? leave a comment.
– Review (or create) an oficial logo. It’s quite ugly by about 1 year…
– It was spoken some stuffs about events participation, but I’m not sure what…
Had we discussed anything more?
Oh!
And we registered this momment! Here we go:
Thanks guys!