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Coolest new iPhone 2.0 Update feature?

One of the coolest, yet little publicised, new features of the iPhone 2.0 update (and there are lots of cool features to choose from) is the ability to take screenshots of whatever you’re currently looking at.
For example, looking at the Apex Evangelists homepage in Safari -

Or perhaps you want to send a snapshot of [...]

iPhone 2.0 firmware is out!

Well, having given up on trying to get an iPhone 3G anytime soon in the UK, I’ve been looking forward to the 2.0 firmware update for my (now old) iPhone.
I noticed it has *just* been released:

It’s a quick easy process to install the new firmware onto the phone (I do get the impression that most [...]

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 [...]

APEX 3.1.1 Released

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).

APEX Performance Tuning Webinar

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 do when [...]

APEX ported to MySQL and SQLServer

One of the big ‘limitations’ with APEX is that it is proprietary, after all who wants to go to the hassle of installing Oracle just because you want to use Oracle functionality.
Here at APEX Evangelists, we have been busy toiling away for the last few months and we’re pleased to announce that we have finally [...]

First ever APEX 3.1 Training?

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. However [...]

APEX 3.1 goes live

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.

Beginner Application Express Training (5.2 on the Richter Scale)

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 at [...]

UKOUG 2007 - Feedback results are in

A nice email popped into my Inbox today to let me know that the feedback results are in for the UKOUG 2007 conference at which I presented Debugging APEX Applications back in December (it seems so long ago now!).
I was in two minds whether to blog about my ‘results’, since on the one hand if [...]