Category Archives: Oracle

Ad: Advanced Application Express Seminar - London

Just a quick post to say that I am doing a 2-Day Advanced Application Express Seminar in London on the 1st and 2nd of October.
This seminar is being organized by Oracle University and you can enroll here.
The next few weeks and months are extremely hectic, but I’m really looking forward to this seminar.
Hope to see [...]

First Oracle Related Application on the iPhone?

I was just browsing through the iTunes Application Store and noticed this application -

Hmm, I guess that really makes me a geek huh? I get to look at the iPhone apps and the first one I look for is an Oracle related one.
Of course, being an Application Express fan, I’ve been used to using an [...]

ODTUG - The Adventure Begins

I had to get up early (about 4am friday morning UK time) to catch my first flight on the journey over to New Orleans for ODTUG 2008, I got to the airport with plenty of time to spare, everything was going well…or so I thought.
If you travel often enough, then sometimes you’re going to have [...]

UKOUG Day 2

It’s a nice short walk from the hotel to the conference centre, but it’s also a nice scenic one walking along the canal.

Today I started off with “Oracle SQL Developer Latest Features” by Sue Harper, SQL Developer is a fantastic (and free!) tool that is becoming more and more tightly integrated with Application Express and [...]

UKOUG Day 1

About 2 hours before I set off to drive down to the UKOUG (thankfully no trans-atlantic Jetlag inducing journey for an Oracle conference this time!) I realised I’d ‘lost’ my IPaq which I use for GPS.
Knowing that my chances of driving down to Birmingham and finding the hotel (Jurys Inn, where all the ‘tech [...]

Application Express 3.1 just went public (evaluation)

If you were at Oracle Openworld and saw the APEX 3.1 demo in the booths then you’ll definitely want to try it out yourself too, if you weren’t at OOW then trust me, you’ll definitely want to try it out anyway, some of the new features are just awesome (in the common day sense of [...]

Post OOW - Decompression Day

Like last year, I decided to spend an extra day in San Francisco before heading home, it’s good to unwind from all that OOW hecticness before catching that oh-so-long flight home.
I caught up with Dimitri, Patrick Wolf and Carl Backstrom for breakfast in the diner next door to the King George hotel, if you ever [...]

OOW07 - Day 5

Most of the morning (woke up at 4:30am today), was spent polishing my presentation and live demos for session in the afternoon.
Around lunch time it was time to wander down to the Moscone to catch Tony Jedlinski’s “Mastering Application Express Email” session, which was interesting and there were a lot of question from people who [...]

OOW07 - Day 4

I had a sleep in this morning…5:15am, perhaps the jetlag is finally wearing off.
It was a bit of a lazy start to the day, catching up with some work before heading to the Keynote speech by Michael Dell, followed by Larry Ellison. I actually thought the speech by Michael Dell wasn’t too bad, in terms [...]

OOW07 - Day 3

I’m losing track of the days now, they’re all merging into one long jet-lagged day. Anyway, it’s tuesday and once again I woke up around 4am.
I almost missed the big presentation from Tom Kyte on “How do you know what you know”, I almost missed it because I was convinced it was on tomorrow, but [...]