a short history of Oracle blogging
I was just reviewing the list of Oracle related blogs I subscribe to. Here they are in approximate chronological order with the blogging platform. Apologies for any inaccuracies.
- Mark Rittman - June 2003 - Movable Type 3.2
- Niall Litchfield - March 2004 - Blogger - recent convert to Joomla.
- Howard Rogers - December 2004 - Originally Blogger, Opera, now Joomla. You name a blogging platform or CMS and Howard’s probably used it.
- Eddie Awad - Original creation date unknown. WordPress.org (migrated from blogger in June 2005)
- Doug Burns - March 2005 - Blogger (migrated from a Tripod blog which only lasted 3 months. Look at it and you can understand why)
- Lewis Cunningham - March 2005 - ITtoolbox
- Peter Scott - April 2005 - Blogger
- Tom Kyte - April 2005 - Blogger
- Andrew Clarke - May 2005 - Blogger
- Robert Vollman - May 2005 - Blogger
- Jeff Hunter - May 2005 - Blogger
- Tim Hall - June 2005 - Blogger
- Lisa Dobson - July 2005 - Blogger
- Jeff Moss - July 2005 - Blogger
- Gary Myers - August 2005 - Blogger
- Life After Coffee - August 2005 - WordPress 1.5
- Mogens Norgaard - November 2005 - Blogger
A couple of things struck me…
- Mark Rittman was one of the first Oracle bloggers (if not the first) and uses the Movable Type platform. Not one Oracle blogger has chosen to follow suit (ever). I wonder why.
- Most Oracle bloggers use blogger.com which is a hosted platform but most are not afraid to tweak their templates with varying degrees of success. Think garish colours, think ‘Changing Rooms’.
- The birth of Tom Kyte’s blog seemed to inspire a lot of Oracle bloggers to follow suit.
Anyway, thanks to all of you for the information, the technical content, the thoughts, the ramblings and perhaps most importantly, the humour.