Two and half years ago, I formed APEX Evangelists together with Dimitri Gielis because we both had a passion about Oracle Application Express. For the last two and half years we have been extremely successful providing training and consultancy around the Oracle Application express product. In the United States, Scott Spendolini and Doug Gault have [...]
Now that the APEX 4.0 EA (Early Adopter) release is available to anyone to sign up and try out APEX 4.0, I’ve had a bit of time to play around with some of the features that up till now I’d only seen demo’ed. My first impressions are very positive indeed. Whilst I’d seen quite a [...]
I’ve been keeping a watchful eye on the Chrome Browser from Google and noticed they’d just released the Mac Beta version so I thought I’d have a quick ‘play’ with it. As you’d expect it does everything you’d want from a browser, I’m pretty much a Firefox/Safari person (they complement each other pretty well particularly [...]
With UKOUG Tech and EBS conference in Birmingham a couple of weeks away, I thought I’d see if anyone is interested in an APEX Meetup during the conference. Usually at most conferences I attend Dimitri Gielis and myself try to arrange a very informal gathering of APEX-minded people in a pub. It’s a great time [...]
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people say “The site must be designed to work in 800×600 resolution”. Now there are a few cases where this definitely is a real requirement, however often it’s more of a case that people don’t want to potentially exclude people from their site (and if [...]
Yesterday, at the UKOUG APEX SIG (which I’ll post a follow-up about shortly), I did a quick 1 hour presentation on Increasing Scalability with Oracle Application Express, I touched on (and demonstrated) quite a few different techniques in which you can make you APEX applications more scalable (and/or just as importantly, reducing the overhead of [...]
Just a quick note to mention that on Wednesday I’ll be at the (2nd!) APEX SIG meeting at the Oracle City Office in London, it looks like it’s going to be a packed day (already sold out sorry!) full of APEX sessions. I’m very happy that something ‘official’ is now being held in the UK [...]
Joel Kallman just posted that Oracle are in the process of creating a certification exam for Oracle Application Express, this is a very interesting development (and something that we in the community have discussed for a few years now). Whilst I’m still on the fence about the whole ‘certification thing’, I do see this as [...]
Just a quick note to say that the APEX Listener has been released as an Early Adopters download. If you’re not familiar with it, this is a Java alternative to the OHS or Embedded PL/SQL gateway. However that is vastly understating some of the potential this has. I was lucky enough to be given an [...]
Following the very successful (over-subscribed!) first ever UK Application Express SIG meeting last year, it seems like a good idea to do another one. The sessions include: Integrating Apex with Oracle Apps – Putting the Sweet back into e-Business (Pete Mahon – Virgin Mobile) New Features of Apex 4.0 (Anthony Rayner – Oracle) Oracle Forms [...]
