APEX Quizzes Start on 18 June 2011 With the growing popularity and usage of Oracle Application Express, we are very excited to announce a new weekly Oracle APEX quiz launching on Saturday, 18th June. Weekly quizzes start on Saturday and end on Friday at midnight (UTC). We have been deeply involved in the development (and [...]
It’s been around 3 years since I wrote Pro Oracle Application Express (with a chapter contributed by Scott Spendolini), and like most first time authors I said “That was a great experience, but I’m in no hurry to write another book again!”. Writing a technical book is a very rewarding experience, but trying to do [...]
APEX 4.0 just got released, this is the BIG one for APEX developers, we’ve been anxiously awaiting the release (and a few bets have been known to placed on when exactly it would be released!). More information is available on Joels blog, and you can download APEX 4.0 as always from the main OTN APEX [...]
The PL/SQL Challenge website has just gone live! If you haven’t heard about it yet, it’s a website where you can pit your wits against a daily question by none other than Steven Feuerstein (yes that Steven Feuerstein!) and Finn Ellebaek Nielsen. Wait it’s even cooler than that, you can win cash (and other!) prizes [...]
I’d love to say “I’m quite often asked…”, but to be honest hardly anyone seems to use Collections in APEX (a very under utilised feature in my opinion). However, a question does come up from time to time, often along the lines of “I am using a collection but it is slow…”. Typically, you might [...]
Just a quick note to say that the APEX Listener Early Adopter 2 is out. Kris Rice blogged about the features and fixes available in this EA, I just quickly tested out the XLS upload (turns it into an APEX collection….very very cool!). The APEX Listener is definitely introducing some interesting features (like the ability [...]
Just a quick note to say I often get asked if I can present at a Oracle usergroup meetings. The answer is usually ‘yes I’d love to’, since – 1) I love to talk about and promote APEX 2) I love to travel So, if you have an Oracle usergroup and you’re interested in promoting [...]
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 [...]
