Inability to distinguish road and commercial driveway (of course, that can be difficult in the real world, but this example was stupid).

Way off in mountains, on roads dating back to gold rush days. It simply gives up, near major resorts no less.

Solicitation for $200 data upgrade.

Confusion about phone number last received (could be wife’s phone which was replaced under warranty because of this – only to do it again with the new one).

Inability to call out system report if the phone that receives the report is secondary phone in car.

Problems with initial syncing of my LG smartphone.

And I can’t really blame sync, but it does give an annoying “phone disconnected” message when driving away from the house, because my phone is in the other car.

Thank you for the compliment. In my opinion, for several of my articles it is the comments posted by people who visit the site, that really add the material worth revisiting on occasion.

On a different note, I re-read a couple of the comments that you made in an OTN thread regarding Microsoft Sync in cars. A couple of months ago I bought a custom ordered 2011 car that offered Sync and Navigation. I think that Microsoft has made some improvements in the technology since the 2008 model year. Having said that, I did initially have trouble syncing my BlackBerry to the car. Also, when I went for a long drive in the car (somewhere around 1,800 miles), a week after taking the car home, I used the navigation system to help find my way on the trip. There were more than a couple of times when the car told me to turn left when the map on the screen clearly showed to turn right or continue heading straight. I said a few choice words when that happened, but I think that I forgot to hit the button on the steering wheel first, or the car was too embarrased to offer a reply.

This blog is what a technical blog should be. Deep dives, well written, and content worth searching for long after the original post.

Thank you for the compliments.

Congratulations on the year long sprint. I enjoy reading your posts because you have very original things to say and you say them very well.

Kind regards,

Iggy

Aman,
Yes, you and Hemant K Chitale get the credit for encouraging me starting this blog. Comments on Twitter seem to have too short of a lifespan. I do follow the Twitter feed on http://www.orana.info, that is the extent of my interest. Looking at that OTN thread again, I see that Kamran Agayev A. tried to contact me on LinkedIn – I do not have a LinkedIn account. Good luck with the book that you are writing with Kamran Agayev A.

Dani,
I am very happy that people are trying to understand the test cases, rather than just believing what I write. Test cases are important to help with understanding why things work, and have been a big help for me. I try to put a little bit of humor into my articles when I have the chance. Sometimes the humor is intentional, and some times it is not intentional, and sometimes it is necessary to read the article 2 or more times to see the humor. For instance, when I wrote: “So, for the five regular readers (or the 2 that hit the refresh button 2.5 times daily)” – it is hard for someone to do something 2.5 times, but not hard for someone to do something an *average* of 2.5 times. A *regular* reader might entirely miss the fact that “average” did not appear in that sentence, while I suspect that most of the *typical* readers of this blog saw that and immediately knew that I was joking. Likewise, when I stated “I can think of five good articles in the last year that I published”, there is a top 5 list of blog articles at the right of the page – I manually update the list weekly to show the top 5 articles for the past 90 days (edit December 1, 2010: this is based on WordPress’ page hit counter for the last quarter). So, yes, it is easy for me to think of 5 good articles because they are at the right side of every page.

David,
Thanks for the compliment. It seems like there is almost always one more step that I could have performed in a blog article, and I am hoping that people recognize that there is at least one more step to go to fully understand something, or to make something work exactly as it needs to work. Recognizing that there is at least one more step, and then taking that next step is one of the goals of that people should have when reading my articles.

Your indepth explanations are appreciated. I always have something to think about after digging in to your examples.

Answering to your question: what are the five good articles? – it’s very hard to say since i find ALL of them very good. This is the reason i’m spending 2 hours a day reading your articles and try to understand every test case you do.

Congrat and thank you very much for your time/ effort and passion on sharing this informations.

All the best,
Dani

Congrats . I can proudly say that I was one of those people who really really wanted to see you starting a blog. Thanks so much for giving such a knowledgeable resource to Oracle Community and I hope and it wish, it would keep on going stronger and stronger.

Regards
Aman….

PS: If you would just re-read the thread, you need to come on Twitter as well . Can we see it happening that too soon ?

Sometimes solution is deeper and sometimes is not (more like mine internal documentation). Most of them are really easy to follow.

However, I do follow your blog with special interests in a moments when I can be concentrated, because your blog requires the whole person to dig into deep.
Keep on dude (hope this is OK term in your language!?)
Damir Vadas