About
Frank Nimphius’ Blogbuster is about Java, JavaEE and Oracle. I use this blog to provide code samples for usecases and frequently asked questions (as I find them on OTN) which solutions are either too short for an official how-to document or require short time to market delivery. I also use this because I like publishing technical content and my opinion here and then.
I recognize with great pleasure that my blog entries are read by so many Oracle JDeveloper users and that they seem to help solving their issues. I also see the Oracle JDeveloper community growing, which I can tell from increased traffic on the OTN forum and the number of Oracle technology related blogs showing on the Internet.
Most of my blogging ideas – as said – are derived from questions I answer on the Oracle JDeveloper forum on OTN, where I usually spend 1 – 2 hours a day to answer questions and to develop testcases. The testcases I develop most often become bug entries, enhancement requests or just food for my blog. I love helping because for me solving a technical issue is more fun than puzzling a sudoku grid – which I am not good at anyway.
If you need my help on a technical problem then I don’t mind helping, but have to apply some rules:
- The solution to a problem must be of common interest
- The problem should be product related
- Everything you want me to look at needs to be on the OTN forum first
- I give no guarantee that I’ll pick up a question immediately after its published
- Samples are provided in an “as-is” fashion
You can expect me monitoring OTN frequently, but please don’t send reminder mails if you haven’t heard from me within 24 hours (I am not as good as Jack Bauer in my timings). Chances are that I did see your posting but did not have an immediate response to this and wait for someone else to give it a go. Steve Muench wrote us an application that I use 2 times a week to follow up on forum threads that I joined in.
I also may follow up on mails that are sent directly to my inbox. However, the response time is depending on the time I have to spend on the subject and my other workload defined by my manager, which means that asking the question on OTN could be faster.
Another important note: Though I am a Product Manager for Oracle Application Development Tools, this blog is my private blog and not an official Oracle website. Oracle is not to be held liable for any content published on this blog.
Thank you for reading this blog!
Frank