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 [...]
Just a quick note to mention that on Wednesday I’ll be at the (2nd!) APEX SIG meeting at the Oracle City Office in London, it looks like it’s going to be a packed day (already sold out sorry!) full of APEX sessions. I’m very happy that something ‘official’ is now being held in the UK [...]
Joel Kallman just posted that Oracle are in the process of creating a certification exam for Oracle Application Express, this is a very interesting development (and something that we in the community have discussed for a few years now). Whilst I’m still on the fence about the whole ‘certification thing’, I do see this as [...]
ODTUG Kaleidoscope is just around the corner now (time flies!), now traditionally Dimitri is very good at organizing the APEX Meetup, however this year unfortunately he can’t make it (for very good reasons). So, this time after lots of prompting (thanks Monty and Bharat) that I still hadn’t got round to announcing anything, I thought [...]
Just a few more hours and then I’m heading out to Collaborate 09. In a break with tradition I’m actually flying out a bit later than usual and flying back a bit earlier (pressure of work and all that!), but I’m looking forward to it immensely. If you’re looking for information about APEX sessions at [...]
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 [...]
After our highly successful Brussels and London Application Express Training Days, Apex Evangelists have just opened registration for our 3rd Application Express 3-Day training course. So, what are these training days? Well, we host a lot of on-site training for clients, however we also hold ‘open training’ days, where anyone can sign up, come along [...]
