• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31 http://tinyurl.com/n3h8ru #
• @kissmygumbo Google for ugly feet and send one of those. Hairy, big yellow, curly toe nails. Now that’s the way to start a week! in reply to kissmygumbo #
• @jpiwowar My whole family, including in-laws have the same. Thanks Disney Cruise Lines! in reply to jpiwowar #
• @cspenn Marking things older than 1 month done – is that a GTD thing? Sounds like a good idea. in reply to cspenn #
• Blogged “Documentation is a waste of time. Or is it? ” http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/31972/3/ #
• Nice!

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24 http://tinyurl.com/p6md6s #
• Blog Talk: Comment by “Yasser Mohd” on Learn PL/SQL: Procedures and Functions http://tinyurl.com/qvvw75 #
• Blog Talk: Comment by Yasser Mohd on Learn PL/SQL: Procedures and Functions http://tinyurl.com/qguv8l #
• Cloud Post: Using and Managing AWS – Part 6: SSH Key Pairs: http://tinyurl.com/poffz3 #
• Blog Talk: Comment by kaleesh on What is the difference between Oracle, SQL and PL/SQL? http://tinyurl.com/phfpnr #
• Blog Comments: Comment on Ora_Tweet – Tweet From Oracle, A PL/SQL Twitter API by Barry Cooper: Hi .. http://tinyurl.com/mr5z75 #
• Blogged “Part 2 of Data Mart Design” http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/31935/3/ #
• Blogged “PL/JSON v0.6.2 on SourceForge” http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/31936/3/ #
• Blogged “PuTTY and SSH for Newbies” http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/31937/3/ #
• @oraclenerd Can’t do rac in aws.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17 http://tinyurl.com/ogkrhx #
• RT @msutic Public Oracle Yum server http://public-yum.oracle.com/ works great. Finally I don’t have to bother searching for various packages #
• Cloud Comments: Comment on Amazon Web Services – Amazon DevPay by Gary: “billed desperately”
  Don.. http://tinyurl.com/p75mqj #
• Cloud Comments: Comment on Amazon Web Services – Amazon DevPay by Lew: heh. I guess sometimes it’.. http://tinyurl.com/pn2tl4 #
• DB Geek says: Designing the Data Mart – Part 2 http://tinyurl.com/oenjj5 #
• Blog Comments: Comment on Designing the Data Mart – Part 1 by Designing the Data Mart – Part 2 | D..

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10 http://tinyurl.com/otrppu #
• Playing with FreeNAS and iSCSI today. Very nice! #
• My life is now complete. @evernote The 3 words you’ve wanted to hear us say: Evernote…for…BlackBerry http://twurl.nl/0vtn6a #
• @oraclenerd Yep, That’s me, Eddie Awad, Arup Nanda, Mark Rittman, Tim Hall and Brad Brown. We did a BOF at OOW’08. in reply to oraclenerd #
• @oraclenerd Birds of a feather. in reply to oraclenerd #
• I played Men At Work:Who can it be now for my 6 year old. He now has it stuck in his head and can’t stop singing it.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-03 http://tinyurl.com/cg2ew3 #
• This week is a week of documentation and data analysis. #
• @dannorris Hey, congrats! I tried to post a congrats on your blog but my corporate firewall blocks disqus. #
• RT @TheOnion Nation Ready To Be Lied To About Economy Again http://bit.ly/wV7Zh #
• If you’re not getting enough swine flu info via @cdcflu, the news, radio, etc, you can get it on your mobile: http://m.cdc.gov #
• @topperge A 2 hour lunch every day? I went into the wrong business. in reply to topperge #
• Another day of data analysis and documentation. I’ve already been crazy productive today!

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26 http://tinyurl.com/d8c5od #
• Blog Talk: Comment by garcia phillip on 10 Things About Telecommuting Everyone Should Know http://tinyurl.com/cgg7yn #
• Blog Talk: Comment by “Brian Tkatch” on What is the difference between Oracle, SQL and PL/SQL? http://tinyurl.com/cv9v9f #
• Gave my son his netbook yesterday (for b-day). Totally unimpressed. Said he wanted a toy instead. ;-( #
• @jfroebe The wife claimed it. in reply to jfroebe #
• @jpiwowar He’ll start the next pirate bay. heh in reply to jpiwowar #
• @oraclenerd No he’s spolied. Just kidding. I hope they grow out of it. Very frustrating. in reply to oraclenerd #
• Awful but funny.

• DB Geek says: Stupid Database Tricks – Shutdown the server from a stored procedure: From the Databa.. http://tinyurl.com/cq8vgx #
• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-19 http://tinyurl.com/dc2dxl #
• Blog Comments: Comment on Ora_Tweet – Tweet From Oracle, A PL/SQL Twitter API by When Twitter meet.. http://tinyurl.com/d93cbd #
• Excellent news! via @serge_a_storms Oracle buys Sun – http://is.gd/trnH #
• @fuadar “mysql could replace xe” Bite your tongue! in reply to fuadar #
• Larry Ellison: . “We’ll engineer the Oracle database and Solaris operating system together.” #
• ZDNet: Oracle with Sun appears to be the Apple of the enterprise #
• Oracle gets: mysql, java, solaris, storage hw, servers. Aything else?

• Blog Talk: Comment by Krystle Cheah on Oracle Streams Configuration: Change Data Capture http://tinyurl.com/cr6pn8 #
• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-12 http://tinyurl.com/dju9ak #
• Another week of informatica training. I’m in the dev II, advanced developer, training. Supposed to be intense. Sweet! #
• Blog Talk: Comment by LewisC on Oracle Streams Configuration: Change Data Capture http://tinyurl.com/clc8b5 #
• I’m starting a new group: People for the Ethical Treatment of URLs (PETU). Save the short URL! http://bit.ly/SGwID #
• Before class (as in days), informatica sends out an email with links to test the connections. We still ALWAYS spend an hour fixing people.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-05 http://tinyurl.com/cv5zlq #
• Just a thought. Now that there is no more IBM=>SUN, what do you think would happen if MS bought Sun? Win7 on Sparc? #
• DB Geek says: Calculating Business Days and Business Days Between http://tinyurl.com/czpehr #
• @neilkod Thanks. My current warehouse doesn’t need it. I have a function I wrote a few years ago that calculates fed holidays. in reply to neilkod #
• My picture went away. What’s up with that? #
• Looks like a lot of people’s picture has gone away. A new kind of fail whale? #
• Oracle ApEx Webinar.

Paul Gallagher, of the Tardate blog, emailed me this morning (or I guess it was last night) and sent me some code to enhace ORA_Tweet.  He wrote a package to call out to an is.gd API to convert a long URL to a short URL.  The really cool thing is that he used a regular expression to find matches INSIDE the comment body.  That means that ANY URLs will be replaced with a short URL, you don’t have to call the API individually.

His API is easily called and can be used for projects other than just ORA_Tweet.  Check out his write up on the SHORTURL package:  Tweeting from your database with short urls

I updated the ora_tweet code so you can download the entire set of code if you would like.

• @bex That’s “Sir Tim”. in reply to bex #
• RT @Blackberry_News Skype for BlackBerry coming in May: An official “for BlackBerry” Skype application.. http://tinyurl.com/cyc3x2 #
• If you use JSON from a database, check out PL/JSON (v0.5) – a PL/SQL implementation of JSON. http://bit.ly/deF7D #
• IBM sucks. They lay off 5000, move the jobs to India and now they’re asking for US stimulus dollars. http://bit.ly/19AekX #
• Stupid question? After thinking about it, I have to wonder why having skype on a phone is a good thing? It’s already a phone! #
• @Das_mole @alannd I use skype for my home office but never really needed a phone on my phone.

• Blog Talk: Comment by Terence Fernando on Oracle and XML In Action – A Real World Example http://tinyurl.com/cyqx9m #
• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22 http://tinyurl.com/cljmws #
• Blog Comments: Comment on Ora_Tweet – Tweet From Oracle, A PL/SQL Twitter API by Bob Watkins: Not .. http://tinyurl.com/c2ua5b #
• Blog Comments: Comment on Ora_Tweet – Tweet From Oracle, A PL/SQL Twitter API by Lewi: Bob,

  Goo.. http://tinyurl.com/c9z4p2 #

• Smooth move: Online Backup Company Carbonite Loses Customers’ Data, Blames And Sues Suppliers. http://bit.ly/mHxqK #
• @fritshoogland Licensing and support. Will Oracle support the db on a non-standard AMI? I don’t know but I wouldn’t think so. in reply to fritshoogland #
• Web minion.

• Blog Talk: Comment by LewisC on Twitter From Oracle – ORA_TWEET http://tinyurl.com/cpkqnx #
• Blog Talk: Comment by Jake on Twitter From Oracle – ORA_TWEET http://tinyurl.com/dazkgt #
• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-15 http://tinyurl.com/cdvlch #
• @dannorris I had three papers accepted for IOUG but just realized I won’t be able to make it. It’s only an hour from my house, too. ;-( in reply to dannorris #
• @chriscmuir Thirty-odd going 3 – the best direction to be going. in reply to chriscmuir #
• Apple is evil reason#153: http://bit.ly/HprjP apple requires 3rd party ipod headphone license fees #
• @cloudberryman I haven’t. Thanks for the info. I will look into it.

• @chriscmuir Less chasing for sure.It’s not exactly slower, just more random. I’m getting to old to keep up with the changes in thought. in reply to chriscmuir #
• @surachart Thanks, I’m catching up some posts from it toolbox. in reply to surachart #
• @krisrice Thanks. in reply to krisrice #
• @oraclenerd Pl/SQL contest? That’s actually the intro I posted in 2005. I’m moving my posts from ittoolbox over. As a backup sort of. in reply to oraclenerd #
• I have four full days of informatica training this coming week. Woohoo. I love learning new tools. #
• I should be in bed.

Get the latest source from the ORA Tweet project page at sourceforge.

I had some free time this last Saturday night (after the family was all in bed) and I wanted to do a little mini-project. I don’t get to do enough PL/SQL anymore so I like to look for utilities and smaller fun things to code. While I was thinking about it, I was also following along on twitter to the posts that the people I follow had recently made.

I decided to put together a twitter procedure that would let me make posts from the database.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-01:
  DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009.. http://tinyurl.com/audqc7 #
• Blog Talk: Comment by Tom on Job Fair in Tampa March 6 http://tinyurl.com/bqccmf #
• @charlesreid1 read about it. Didn’t see it. Did you? #
• RT @craigmullins 5steps to protect against angry laid off employees http://tinyurl.com/c6nw6j how about planning better&not laying them off? #
• Cloud Post: Amazon Web Services EC2 – Part 2: Elastic IP Addresses: Cloud Computing Info Elastic Comp.. http://tinyurl.com/c8y7jj #
• RT @InternetLaw“Only .006% Of Facebook Users Care About New Terms Of Service” http://tinyurl.com/c2ut7z “The loud .006%” #
• Today is hectic.

• DB Geek says: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-22:
  Having trouble with my web sites today. Very .. http://tinyurl.com/aw3kn4 #
• Test #
• Twitterberry says success when testing your connection, even if you put in an invalid password. Hmmmmph. #
• I am loving my new blackberry bold. I didn’t realize how out of date my 8700 was until I started playing with my bold. #
• @shanegold yo gaba gaba is the weirdest show since the tele-tubbies. The, um, actors? are creepy. in reply to shanegold #
• I have an awful head cold and an awful headache going right now. I wish I were home in bed. #
• @jameskoopmann Thanks.

• Having trouble with my web sites today. Very slow access. My hosting company must be having issues. #
• A new look for my database blog. Tell me what you think. http://database-geek.com/ #
• Blogged “PL/SQL Code Parser Part 3″ http://it.toolbox.com/trd/46/2/30035/3/ #
• @surachart @OracleCert Thanks. I am going for clean and easy to read. My old theme was hard to read when there was a lot of code. #
• @jaylward No iphone. Apple is evil. in reply to jaylward #
• Check out this killer barebones rig from tiger direct: http://tinyurl.com/bvazu8 I am thinking about building an i7 but this quad is cheap! #
• @serge_a_storms Isn’t it.