Security: Writing Custom Authentication Schemes for Application Express

Raj Mattamal has put up an interesting topic for a presentation at Oracle Open World 2008, it's about Writing Custom Authentication Schemes for Application Express. The presentation is not just the basic stuff you will find in the manual or the tutorial, it goes way further. For example it covers SSO over multiple workspaces.

In case if you are not interested in the topic, it's still always fun to watch Raj doing a presentation/see him talking (fast). This guy has way to much energy or is drinking to much Red Bull ;-)

So people, vote for him that he is able to present that topic at Oracle Open World 2008!

And don't forget about the other great Oracle APEX sessions!

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My presentation at ODTUG Kaleidoscope

Just a very short blog posting, I'm currently sitting in the APEX vs ADF Shootout session hosted by Dimitri and Lucas, but I thought I should put my Increase Your Oracle APEX Development Productivity with Open Source Tools presentation online, which I have presented yesterday.

So here you go, it's in the download section together with my other presentations.

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ApexLib 1.7 released!

Unbelievable, but I finally found the time to put together a new release of the ApexLib Framework for Oracle Application Express (APEX).

I have created bug fixes and enhancements since the last version has been released last year, but I just sent them to the person who requested it. I thought it's really getting time to put together a up-to-date version which also handles some issues with the last Oracle APEX 3.1.1 patchset.

The new version contains some new features, trimming blanks from submitted page items and tabular form columns is one of them. To disable the feature use $APEXLIB_NO_TRIM$

I have also updated the installation and integration documentation to the new style of the web page. See the change log for a full documentation of change requests and bug fixes. The upgrade instructions can also be found in the change log.

Download version 1.7!

BTW, don't forget to download and install the integration files for the Oracle APEX Builder Plugin to get a seamless integration of the ApexLib settings into your APEX Builder development environment.

Have fun using the framework!

Note: Version 1.7 will probably be the last version which supports Oracle APEX 2.2

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Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design

Just got this from a co-worker and my first thought was. It's sooooo true! Do you have other experiences with web development?

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Vote for Oracle APEX sessions at Oracle Open World!!!

You may have already read it on Carl Backstrom's blog, Oracle has reserved some slots for community suggested topics for the upcoming Oracle Open World in September.

Want to hear more Oracle APEX related presentations during the conference?

It's up to you!!! Vote for the following Oracle APEX sessions, so that they are added to the conference program.

• How to Hack an Oracle Application Express Application
• Rapid Development and Validation of ApEx Applications at an FDA Regulated Medical Device Company
• (Re)Developing a logistic application in APEX in the real world
• Using Oracle Application Express to analyze your PL/SQL source code

I can really recommend "How to Hack an Oracle APEX application" by Anton Nielsen, I have already seen it at the unconference track at last years OOW.

Give APEX a boost and vote now! Voting ends 24th June.

The voting takes place on mix.oracle.com. You have to register if you have no account yet.

Update 21-Jun-2008: There is another new session available. Security: Writing Custom Authentication Schemes for Application Express

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