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Reading Oracle (APEX) docs on iPad
With the new release of APEX (or Oracle in general) it's always useful to re-read the documentation again, even if it's just the release notes and the installation guide...I use my iPad a lot to read...
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Integration of Oracle Social Network and APEX
At Oracle Open World (OOW) Martin and I had a lot of fun integrating the Oracle Social Network (OSN) with Oracle Application Express (APEX).In short there was a developer challenge at OOW where teams...
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Moving your APEX app to the Oracle Cloud
Now that the Oracle Cloud is publicly available, I want to show you what it takes to put your APEX application on there. As an example I will use the application "DGTournament" that I created in 2006...
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APEXBlogs part of odtug.com/apex
Over the last years things changed fast: HTMLDB became APEX, many developers started to use APEX day-in-day-out, the development team released APEX 4.2 a few days ago and the Oracle Cloud is using APEX...
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Oracle APEX books under Christmas Tree
If you are searching for some presents under the Christmas tree, you might want to consider following Oracle APEX books:-) Oracle APEX Best Practices by Alex Nuijten, Iloon Ellen-Wolff, Learco...
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Online Oracle APEX documentation updated
Today, Anthony Rayner tweeted that the online APEX (JavaScript APIs) documentation was updated.The JavaScript APIs of APEX got a complete rewrite over time and contains many hidden gems of APEX. Now...
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APEX 4.2.2 patch set released
Today APEX 4.2.2 was released. As with every patch set a number of bugs got fixed, but this patch also contains a new packaged application to build surveys.Here's a screenshot of the app:If you are on...
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Review PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development (e-book)
Packt asked me if I was interested in reading one of their books, PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot, and write my thoughts on it.As the topic is in my interest sphere and I was having...
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Importing APEX Team Development Feedback from TEST to DEV (on same instance)
One of the great features in APEX is Team Development. It was introduced in APEX 4.0 and I already blogged about it before, so if you don't know what it is, have a look at my previous post first.This...
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Goodies - APEX 4.2.2 Sample and Packaged Apps
After reading Michael Hichwa's blog post about APEX 4.2.2 where he mentions the patch set includes a major upgrade of all 18 productivity and all 16 database sample applications, I decided to install...
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APEX Ice Cream - Oracle ACE Cookbook
The warm days are coming... time for some APEX Ice Cream! People in my close environment, they know I can't resist ice cream and chocolate! So what I did was I bought a real ice cream machine, so I...
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Oracle Database 12c and APEX
The below content is based on a David Peake's presentation at OOW 2012 and APEX World 2013.As the Oracle Database 12c is not out yet at the time of writing, note that things might be different in the...
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Goodies - APEX 4.2.2 included Libraries
External libraries are typically used to extend APEX so you (and the APEX development team) don't need to build certain features from scratch. One of the advantages of applying the latest patches is...
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My thought on APEX 5.0 plans
The below content is based on a David Peake's presentation at APEX World 2013.The below are plans for APEX 5.0, not marked in stone objectives... So there are no promises it will all make it in APEX...
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OTN Forums updated
Today the OTN Forums where updated. The site is still in read-only mode as they are fixing some issues. This is how the new APEX Forum looks like:I need to get used to this new look and feel, but it...
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Upgrade Oracle DB 11gR2 with APEX to 12c
Now that Oracle Database 12c is available I upgraded my VM to try it out. The installation went very smooth and I was up-and-running in no time!My virtual machine had Oracle 11gR2 installed with the...
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Make APEX Plugin source read/write
I really like the Flot Pie Chart plugin that came with the APEX sample applications (see this blog post in which apps this plugin is used).But when I wanted to make changes to it, I couldn't... the...
View ArticleAPEX Mobile - iPhone 5 Web App in Fullscreen
The default Mobile Theme (50) in APEX renders just fine in Safari. It uses the full height of my iPhone 5, but when I added the app to my Home screen and ran it from there, it didn't render in...
View ArticleAPEX 4.2.3 available for download
A new patch set of Oracle Application Express (APEX) is available for download, the latest version of APEX is now 4.2.3.00.08.As we are used to patch releases; it contains bug fixes, updated external...
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APEX book: Oracle APEX 4.2 Reporting
A few weeks ago a new Oracle APEX book was released called Oracle APEX 4.2 Reporting by Vishal Pathak.I was one of the reviewers of the book and I really liked the content. The book covers many...
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