Inside Oracle APEX by Patrick Wolf

Oracle APEX doesn’t work for mission critical applications! It’s just for small applications! – Really?

That’s one of the myths you hear quite often when you want to use Oracle Application Express to create bigger applications. But what is the reality? Just have a look at the new Oracle Shop. Phase II just did go-live and includes now almost all the products Oracle offers.

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Oracle APEX Developer Competition – Participate!!!

I almost forgot to blog about it. Oracle Technology Network (OTN) and the Application Express team are hosting the 1st worldwide Oracle APEX Developer Competition! You can win free tickets for Oracle Open World 2009, Oracle APEX books and chances are high that

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Check out the Oracle APEX 4.0 Keynote!

Do you want to know more about the Oracle Application Express (APEX) roadmap? Then you have to check out the Oracle APEX 4.0 keynote performed my Mike Hichwa at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 conference. The ODTUG folks have recorded the session and it’s now available as a podcast.

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Spreadsheet Master – He is the man! ;-)

Just came across a new fun video produced by Jeff Erickson (Oracle Publishing) who runs the blog Tech Spectator. He writes about the challenges they are facing to producing some kind of new videos which are not the regular talking heads or corporate profiles. I really like the outcome, not just because it’s about Oracle [...]

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Securest Oracle APEX ever – Version 3.2 Released!

It’s finally out! The newest release of Oracle APEX is now available for public download. Beside the already mentioned Oracle Forms Conversion, this release also adds many new security enhancements to the product to make it the securest Oracle APEX ever!

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New Competence Center for Oracle APEX – New Oracle APEX Blog

A few days ago I noticed that I have never blogged about two important events where I have been involved last year. As you may have noticed I’m doing a lot with Oracle Application Express, so does the company (Sphinx IT) I’m working for.

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Test Drive the new Forms Converter aka Oracle APEX 3.2!

If you are a regular user of apex.oracle.com or the OTN forum, you might have already noticed that the hosted environment has been upgraded to the brand new Oracle APEX 3.2. If not, go and take a test drive of this brand new release! So what’s new?

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Carl Backstrom died

I’m still in shock. Can’t believe what I read in an email this morning. It informed me about the death of Carl Backstrom – the Mr. Javascript/CSS of Oracle APEX. But I have to accept the reality. I’m sure a lot of you knew him from the OTN forum where he did a great job

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Congratulation to Denes Kubicek!

Just read in the newest edition of the Oracle Magazine that Denes Kubicek became this years Oracle APEX Developer of the Year! Very well deserved Denes!!! It was really time that all your work on the OTN APEX forum and with your example application gets some official recognition! More details can be found in the [...]

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Pro Oracle Application Express finally shipping?

Is John Scott’s long awaited book Pro Oracle Application Express finally shipping? It looks like! There are reports on the OTN APEX forum that they have received a mail from Amazon that they have shipped the book. I also checked the order page of Amazon and it shows that the book is on stock.

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