Software is a funny thing.
It is, when you think about, a lot like playing god. You get to create your own world and invite people to inhabit it.
But creating (and maintaining) worlds can be really difficult.
For example, this weekend we upgraded to APEX version 4.2.
And after we were done with the upgrade, which occurred without any complications and resulted in successful upgrades for many of the applications running in this APEX instance, we found that the PL/SQL Challenge webpages had become, how shall I put this, blank.
Nothing visible on the page. No HTML to be rendered.
And, strange to say, at this point (22:00 UTC on the 25th of November) we do not yet know what is wrong or how to fix it.
I guess I don't have to tell you troubling it is for me to write the above sentence, but I must.
So as I board a plane to return home from a weekend in New York with my family, I hope that something happens in the next two hours and the website comes to life.
If not, we will just have to do without the PL/SQL Challenge for a little bit. My apologies to all of our devoted players.....
Regards,
Steven Feuerstein
The PL/SQL Challenge (www.plsqlchallenge.com) offers a daily quiz on the PL/SQL language, through which thousands of Oracle technologists demonstrate and deepen their knowledge of PL/SQL. This blog contains posts by the PL/SQL Challenge founder, Steven Feuerstein, as well as comments from players.
