I had a bit of a ‘spring clean’ in my study this afternoon…ok, it wasn’t so much a spring clean as trying to find somewhere to put some CD’s that wasn’t already full. I found a couple of old CDs that I got from OTN a few years back. The first CD was Oracle WebDB [...]
If, like me, you’ve ever wrestled for ages trying to understand why your regular expression isn’t doing what you think it should be doing, then you might find this application created by Flavio Casetta useful. Of course I like the application because it’s also written in Application Express!
I read this story over on the BBC news this morning and sadly it’s not an uncommon one, except perhaps this one is on a *far* bigger scale than we usually hear about. In a nutshell, a big US retailer has had data ‘stolen’ which contains customer credit card details, over 45 million customer credit [...]
I’ve been checking for a while…and today I noticed it is finally being listed It’s a strange feeling indeed seeing something you’ve written on there!
I don’t usually like to advertise the services I run on Shellprompt Hosting in this blog, however I’ve had a few emails lately regarding people who are actually using the public Oracle APEX server to run production applications (that’s against one of the few rules that the public Oracle server has). Well, to try and [...]
I watched the Apple keynote which was released yesterday and as soon as I saw the iPhone I knew I wanted one. This ‘device’ looks absolutely gorgeous, it’s fit well in the hand unlike some of the other bulkier smartphones out there) and as you come to expect from Apple, it lets you perform the [...]
Well, I had a good weekend learning how to sail (RYA Level 2 Dingy sailing actually), my father-in-law and I signed up for the course way back in June when it seemed like a good idea (i.e. the weather was a LOT warmer). So saturday and sunday were spent sailing around in a little dingy, [...]
One of the big announcements at OpenWorld was about the Unbreakable Linux support program, which in a nutshell means that Oracle can now offer the same levels of support for your Operating System (so long as you’re using their own Distribution of Linux) that you get with your database, i.e. no longer will you be [...]
Well, I’m almost home, sitting in Heathrow airport waiting for my connecting flight back home. If I had to pick a word to describe the flight from SFO to Heathrow it would probably be ‘dreadful’. I had the unfortunate combination of – No air-conditioning working in the aisle I was in, it was like sitting [...]
Well, it’s been officially announced now, I’ve been named Oracle Application Express Developer of the year in the Oracle Magazine Editors Choice awards. I’m not sure how I managed to keep quiet and not let anything slip for so long now, but now it’s finally in print (yes I will actually be named in the [...]
