Comments on: Pro Oracle Application Express

By: Monty Latiolais

Monty Latiolais — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:51:04 +0000

Congrats! Pro Application Express is ranked #27 in the Top 50 Must-Read Books on Web Development!

http://nettuts.com/articles/web-roundups/50-must-read-books-in-web-development/

Keep up the great work!

By: Bill Ferguson

Bill Ferguson — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:27:10 +0000

John,

Mainly posting this here for anybody undecided about your book.

The chapter on LDAP alone makes the book a worthwhile investment. I’ve had basic LDAP (against AD)authentication working for a while now, but after reading the LDAP chapter and experimenting some with the correct dn’s and cn’s, with the code you have in the book, I can now finally grab the extra information out of LDAP I’ve struggled with for what seems like years.

A few more hours and should be able to have a reasonable mini-app working in my applications for the users to request edit access, record their full names, phone, etc, automatically from AD, and store when they requested the access and when I finally gave it them, etc., all with a button click by the user, cutting down my workload. In our environment I can’t simply create an AD Group and check against that, as to many people have their hands in the pot. I need to keep it more simple and under my control, hence creating my own local user_repository, but populating it from AD information instead of having the users fill out all the fields.

Bill Ferguson

By: Edward Leung

Edward Leung — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:43:48 +0000

Thanks John.
For a person to start with his first book, I think it’s quite magnificent. Please keep your good work.

By: John Scott

John Scott — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:22:08 +0000

Hi Edward,

Thank you for the feedback, as you can imagine it’s an almost impossible task to try and write something that covers *everyones* expectations (especially as a first book!).

I’ve noted your points and will keep them in mind.

Thanks,

John.

By: Edward Leung

Edward Leung — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:28:09 +0000

I am reading the book now and finished Ch 4 and 9 which I am especially interested in and found it’s really useful for such a forms developer for years which I recently found APEX a quite handy tool for RAD but just very hard to get a good book for my reference and this is one of them which mentioned specific topic which people may usually struggle with. There are some minor details which is not covered such as the download filename is not the original one. No topic about email sending w/attachement. Hope this part will be covered soon.

By: Louis-Guillaume

Louis-Guillaume — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:43:26 +0000

Nice book!
Great tool for those new to APEX. It’s also a good reference for the pros.

Good work!

By: Graham B

Graham B — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:11:48 +0000

Hello John,
Just bought the book, read the first 100 or pages and, so far, so good. Other books that I have read on the subject have been too similar to the provided documentation to represent value for money. The provided documentation itself can be light on detail and has too many “follow the on-screen instructions…” for my liking. Another problem that other books have had is that there has been an over-reliance on case studies. Your book is a welcome departure from the Oracle documentation. It would be nice if you could make the spreadsheet that kicks-off the bug fix application available for download as I think that it would be useful to emulate the examples in the book on occasion. Thanks again, Graham B.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:14:41 +0000

Hi John,

Congratulations on your book! Received my copy yesterday and immediately found some very interesting things for my own projects. Instead of typing over the many good samples, is there a way to download them instead?

Thanks,
Rob

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:58:53 +0000

Bought mine at http://www.bol.com

By: Jon Barwell

Jon Barwell — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:22:59 +0000

Received the book yesterday, only had a quick glance so far but looks well written and is likely to be really useful.
Should be well worth the wait!!

Thanks,

Jon

By: Shravan V

Shravan V — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:37:02 +0000

John,

You’re a wonderful professional so passionate about APEX…We learnt so much from your presentations and discussions on APEX at this years ODTUG in New Orleans in June.

Your book on APEX topic is going to be a great contribution to the Apex community…I’m eagerly awaitng the arrival of the book in my mailbox.

May be the next project would be to organize a conference - “ApexWorld 2009″ :)

Thanks.

Shravan
http://www.apexor.com

By: Koen

Koen — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:47:56 +0000

Hello John,

I bought your eBook on http://www.apress.com. I’m now somewhere over the middle and as a beginner I love this book. It’s clear and structured and helps me to build the APEX puzzle, piece by piece :-).

Do you have the example application somwhere online or as a packaged application?

By: Sylvain Michaud

Sylvain Michaud — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:45:14 +0000

Congratulation John,

I will receive my copy tomorrow ! ;-)

By: Geert Joosten

Geert Joosten — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:18:52 +0000

Hi John,
I’m curious because my copy in now somewhere between Amazon-warehouse and my house.
Next time write a book, make a PDF and sell it on your website. APEX-developers are not the kind of people who wants everything for free, because they already saved a lot of money for not having to pay Oracle (at least separately) for APEX :-)
Cheers, Geert.

By: Johannes de Jong

Johannes de Jong — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:23:56 +0000

Congrats John. I can’t wait for my copy to arrive.

By: Rutger de Ruiter

Rutger de Ruiter — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:37:31 +0000

Hi John,

My ordered copy is being shipped as we speak. I’m looking forward reading it.

Greetings,
Rutger

By: Noel Portugal

Noel Portugal — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:03:45 +0000

Congratulations John! Buying my copy right now!

By: Jason Aughenbaugh

Jason Aughenbaugh — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:17:40 +0000

Congrats John, Now the questions get to shift from when to any number of new ones.

Mine is in the mail now too.

By: chet

chet — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:07:33 +0000

Congratulations John!

I have no doubts that the book is great. You’ve worked hard on this [career] for years now and are starting to realize the rewards. Couldn’t have happened to a better person.

By: Michael A. Rife

Michael A. Rife — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:20:21 +0000

I ordered mine from Amazon yesterday. I plan on posting a review when done.

Mike