You sometimes get questions that are easily answered by a Google search, so you give people a link to lmgtfy.com, like this.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Oracle+11gR2
As a homage to lmgtfy.com I’ve created a documentation search.
https://oracle-base.com/search/
If you specify your search it gives you a URL you can pass to others. When they use the URL it shows them what they could have done rather than bug you. 🙂
https://oracle-base.com/search/?txt=automatic+storage+manager
Update: It now uses TinyURL, like this http://tinyurl.com/yamsmc2
It’s a little basic to look at, but it made me laugh. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
That is awesome – I can image someone like Tom Kyte would love this.
Great 🙂
I’m sure I’ll use it more than once!
Thank you, care to share the secrets of how to do this?
Joel:
I’m just using the jQuery animate() function to change the “left” and “top” settings of an image. Nothing magical. jQuery is very easy. 🙂
If you download the search.js file you will see my code. It’s my first jQuery code, so sorry if it’s a mess. 🙂
The other two Javascript libraries are the jQuery library and a plugin to handle the querystring. Pretty simple stuff.
Cheers
Tim…
Nice; it’d be even more better if there was a link to tinyurl (or some other url shortener), and perhaps a handy little url (like letmegooglethatforyou.com has…) to remember the link more easily.
But I shall *definitely* be using this, especially on the OTN forums!
(PS. the link to your Oracle AceD page on the “About Me” page is pointing to Steven Feuerstein – deliberate error or not?! (the 43 at the end should be 41, I think)
Hi.
I’ve changed it to use a tinyurl.
Not sure what is going on with the profile. I’ve changed the link. 🙂
Cheers
Tim…
Ooh, super! *{:-D
Nice coding!
You should name the page RTFM.htm