Merry Christmas

Yong Huang

I've been on many public forums over the past 12 years. Roughly chronologically, computational chemistry, Honda, Toyota, HTML, Javascript, Perl, LazyDBA, Oracle-L, dba-village, oraclefans.net in Chinese (non-existing), comp.databases.oracle.server (cdos), Solaris, and this itpub.net in Chinese. Apart from keeping myself abreast of current technology, one reason I choose to stay on this forum web site is that members are friendly to each other, plus the feeling that I may be contributing to the advancement of Chinese technical professionals' skills. After all, China is where I was from. Some features of this site are also appealing to me, such as new message notification.

I notice some members occasionally post messages to other public forums. One of them is worthy of a little bit caution. Cdos newsgroup (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.oracle.server) is indexed by Google so searching is extremely easy. But that's by far the most hostile forum I've ever been on, presumably because a few frequent posters are always harsh on anybody not well known already. No comparison, no judgment. If you're on both sites, you know we're making an amicable environment here. Also note that all newsgroup postings reveal your original IP you post the messages from. If you care to hide your company affiliation, don't post to newsgroups from your company network.

Some features of this itpub.net site may need to be re-considered. Modern browsers including Firefox and latest IE6 block popup windows. I think advertisement can take a less aggressive way now. Popup windows have been deemed as bad Web programming practice for many years anyway. On the other hand, the Web site may encourage visitors to click on the advertisement links once in a while, if the number of clicks matters.

Yong Huang

liuyi8903

最初由 Yong Huang 发布
[B]Hi, Everyone,

I've been a forum moderator or "owner" (ban3 zhu3) since Tigerfish invited me in July 2004. It's a pleasure to do this volunteer work. I enjoy helping others and also benefit from learning a great variety of real-life problems. It's particularly gratifying that members of this and other forums allow me to post messages in English.

Over the past few years I've witnessed improvement of technical skills of many Oracle professionals in China. They're well deserved because they all study hard. This In-depth Discussion forum may be the only one on the Internet. Although the content may not always be in-depth, at least the name is, and I hope messages posted here are indeed beyond basics.

One concern I have is that some members do not have a habit of quoting other people's published materials with their name and the article address (if available). This is an issue of respecting others' intellectual property as well as observing copyright. Since this Web site (itpub.net) is indexed by public search engines, I hope we pay attention by constantly reminding ourselves when posting a message.

A minor interesting issue. As on many forum-type Web sites, a member can choose a picture associated with him. But some members choose pictures not quite appropriate in a corporate environment, a movie star, a pretty lady,... To read messages in office (like at lunch time), I have to turn off images so people walking by won't second guess the content of what I'm reading.

I'd like to thank every other forum moderator, the site owner Tigerfish and everyone that participated in discussion. Let's keep it up and do better. Have a very merry Christmas.

Yong Huang [/B]

Happy New Year.



Happy New Year.
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solarstar

迟到了,好过没有,呵呵
还是祝福大家~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

shahand

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sunnily

不過這節日的