DISQUS

Thomas Kyte · 4 years ago

Eddie -- thanks, in the future you can drop me an email too. I file the errata and it'll get subsequent prints fixed.

Eddie Awad · 4 years ago

Tom, hopefully I won't find any additional errata, but if I do I'll make sure I e-mail you about it.

Thank you for this great book.

Tom_Fox · 4 years ago

Good stuff! My copy of the book is on its way. Lucky for me, an Amazon.com distribution center is down the road. Shame they don't allow pick-ups.

Tom_Fox · 4 years ago

So tell me, how does this article know I linked to you? I'm ignorant on all blog technology it seems.

Eddie Awad · 4 years ago

Tom,

It looks like that your blog, like mine, is on wordpress. Wordpress supports "pingbacks" and "trackbacks". That means, whenever your post has a link to another blog, wordpress tries to send a ping to that other blog. If the linked blog supports pinging, your post will usually appear in the comment section as it did here.

In wordpress there are two places where you can control this:

1. WP admin --> Options --> Discussions: "Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)" and "Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)". I have them both checked on my blog.

2. WP admin --> Write --> Write Post: "Allow Pings". I also have this one checked by default.

Hope this helps.

Tom_Fox · 4 years ago

Cool.. I was wondering how in the world that happened. I guess I should read the fine manual, eh? :)