Many people (myself included) often post an update to Twitter when publishing a new blog post. WordPress (the blog software I use) and most other blogging platforms include a nice feature that allows you to schedule blog posts to be published at a particular date/time. Wouldn’t it be great if we could also schedule our tweets so that they are posted when our blog post is published? There are countless other potential uses for scheduled... 

Today, I upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.7, and while most of the upgrade went smoothly, I did notice that my Twitter plugin wasn’t showing new tweets anymore. I initially thought maybe it was a caching issue, or I had run out of API calls or something, but I returned hours later to find it in the same state. I tweaked with the function call to see if changing it would refresh the cache but nothing I tried made it work. I looked for... 

To follow up on yesterday’s post on the different Irish companies that provide shared web hosting, I decided to put together a similar piece on Irish companies that offer domain name registration services. I have listed the companies in alphabetical order, and the minimum criteria for listing is that the company provides .ie domain name registration. Unless otherwise specified, prices are per year and include VAT @ 21.5%. Please note... 

On a previous iteration of my blog I wrote an article on the different Irish companies that offer shared web hosting services. Many people have asked since about this article and I said I would put it back up once I got my blog sorted out. As I have decided not to port over my previous blog posts, I decided to create a new version of this guide. The services offered and prices listed in this article were taken directly from each service... 

In order to develop PL/SQL applications on Oracle XE, we are going to need to install a web server (Apache) and a PL/SQL gateway for Apache called mod_owa. On a regular Oracle Application Server you would probably be using Oracle HTTP Server (a modified Apache) and mod_plsql, amd you should also be able to follow my future tutorials if you have this type of setup. Once again I will be assuming throughout this guide that you have... 

In this tutorial, I will be looking at the basics of Oracle databases, namely, the creation of database tables and inserting of data rows. I will be showing you two ways of interacting with the database: Via Oracle’s Application Express Web-Based Interface Via Oracle’s Command-Line Application, SQL*Plus For the purpose of this tutorial, I will assume that you have followed my previous tutorial, which guides you through... 

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (I will refer to this as Oracle XE from here on) is a basic version of the Oracle Database 10g that is freely available for development, deployment and distribution. It is an excellent entry-level database for learning Oracle and PL/SQL and will run on most modern PCs and laptops. I will be using Oracle XE in the majority of the Oracle tutorials and sample applications on this website, so it is...