A recent post by Dimitri on whether APEX is still worth looking at (read the article to see the context!), and in particular the comment by David Peake For some proof points look at the number of APEX sessions at Oracle Openworld 2008 = 38 reminded me that I still had an old post sitting [...]
I woke up to the news this morning that Carl Backstrom has been killed in a car accident. I’m not going to post a link to the news article directly, as it contains some distressing details that some people might not wish to read, however the news has been confirmed by various Blogs and (reliable) [...]
Well it’s been a long time in the making, but the Pro Oracle Application Express book that I wrote (with a chapter on Themes and Templates contributed by Scott Spendolini) is finally shipping! I started working on the book way back and it seems barely a week has gone by since when I haven’t been [...]
I was glancing through the list of fixed bugs in the Apex 3.1.2 release and noticed that one of my long time ‘annoyances’ has been fixed. Many people have had problems getting their Apex applications indexed by Google and other search engines. One of the reasons for this was that Google (and other search engines) [...]
Hot off the press, Application Express version 3.1.2 has just been released. The link to the direct download is here, if you’re upgrading via the patchset on Metalink then the patch number is 7313609. You can find more details about the patch here. There looks like quite a few fixed bugs (it’s always hard to [...]
Incase you didn’t spot it yet the APEX 3.1.1 patchset has been released. You can download the patch from Metalink, Joel Kallman has blogged with more details on the patch number (7032837).
My good friend, Doug Gault over at Hotsos is doing a free (free!) webinar on Performance Tuning APEX Applications. You can register for the webinar here, but here’s a snippet from the Hotsos site: Application Express (ApEx) is a highly flexible and highly scalable Rapid Application Development environment for web applications. But what do you [...]
These last few weeks we have been doing some Beginner APEX training classes for some companies here in the UK (APEX is certainly becoming more popular here in the UK). Now, I am quite risk averse when it comes to updating software, especially when I’m going to be demoing or training in the near future. [...]
If you didn’t catch it yet, the Oracle team behind Application Express have been working hard (as always!) and have just released APEX 3.1 There are some incredibly cool features in 3.1, such as (from the SoD): Interactive reporting region types which natively integrate Web 2.0 features to filter, break, sort data, etc.
I’ve been helping out providing some on-site beginner level Apex training for a company here in the UK over the last few weeks and it’s been quite a nice change for me since I’m usually called in for Advanced Level Training instead. None of the attendees were what I’d call ‘Oracle Developers’ or indeed Developers [...]
