HTML 5 Promises

Web is becoming a client-side computing platform and the fancy features in HTML5 promises to accelerate it. It will help to create more complex and rich web applications. The ability to link to a video/audio file as simply as an image file is a very powerful.

Though its in specification stage, browsers and we sites are betting big on it. Youtube has a demo page which doesn't use Flash. It uses HTML 5 video tag. Several other demos are listed here.

AJAX Libraries

Recently I came across open source AJAX libraries like JQuery, prototype, script_aculo_us etc. Most of them offer similar features and developers wonder which one to use and how to keep up with new versions, bug fixes, etc.

The AJAX Libraries API is an effort from Google to takes the pain out of staying up to date with these libraries. Google works directly with the key stake holders for each library effort and accepts the latest stable versions. And host them forever.

Developers would just need to use google.load(...) to use the required version of the api.

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

How to export all tables in a schema without specifying table names

exp utility doesn't have an option to export all tables in a schema. One has to give list of tables which is painful when the schema is huge.

The Data Pump Utility has an option [INCLUDE=TABLE_DATA] to achieve this.

example: expdp username/password dumpfile=username.dmp INCLUDE=TABLE_DATA

A Look Back

Knowledge@Wharton: The Top Article from Each of the Past 10 Years

This special section includes links to the most-read story from each of the site's first 10 years. Reflecting their times, the articles cover topics ranging from the technology boom and leadership trends to online marketing and the sweep of globalization. Here's to many more anniversaries and whatever the next decade brings.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt: "The next big wave in advertising is the mobile internet"

Eric Schmidt on cloud computing, mobile internet, web2.0 etc.