Yesterday the new issue of Oracle Magazine has been published which contains the Oracle Magazine Editors Choice awards for 2007. It’s official now, I’ve been named Oracle Application Express Developer of the year 2007! 
I was really honored to have been nominated for this award and it was quite hard to keep quiet for the past months, because I was already told during the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference in June. So it had the same “problem” as John Scott, the last years winner. But I managed to keep quit
It was a really interesting experience! I had to give an interview and they sent Ton Hendriks, a professional photograph from the Netherlands to take some pictures. Like John wrote, it was a little bit surreal. We took some pictures at my workplace and then we went to the Naturhistorisches Museum of Vienna to take some outdoor pictures. So I was posing in this public spot, sweating because it was a really sunny day and a photographer was lying on the ground and taking pictures of me. So you can imaging how the tourists looked when they walked by. Too bad that there is no PDF version available of the Oracle Magazine, because the HTML version doesn’t show the picture. I have seen the picture and I think Ton did a really good job!
Thanks again to the Oracle APEX development team for nominating me. I really appreciate that! A big thank you goes also to Sphinx IT Consulting for supporting me in my open source and community efforts.
You don’t know what Oracle Application Express (APEX) is? Check out apex.oracle.com!
Update as of 23-Nov-2003: Added the picture from the Oracle Magazine.
October 17th, 2007 at 11:57
Congratulations Patrick, very well deserved!
John.
October 17th, 2007 at 15:13
Patrick,
Congratulations – You are a very worthy winner with all that you have given to the APEX Community and the development team.
David
October 17th, 2007 at 15:42
Congrats and keep up the good work!
Gareth
October 17th, 2007 at 17:22
Congratulations Patrick!
Very well deserved.
October 17th, 2007 at 21:56
Excellent. Keep on continuing for our pleasure.
October 17th, 2007 at 22:20
Congrats Patrick!
October 17th, 2007 at 22:45
If you don’t mind I’d even give you the ‘best partner’… Cons!
Péter
October 17th, 2007 at 23:10
Patrick congratulations, best regards.
October 17th, 2007 at 23:24
Congratulation!
October 18th, 2007 at 00:17
Hi Patrick,
Congratulations with your well deserved title! Keep on working with your inspiring Apex improvements.
Pieter de Jager
October 18th, 2007 at 01:24
Well done Patrick, it is definitely very well deserved. Thank you for your comments and support on my blog, it is very much appreciated.
Keep it up!
Anthony.
October 18th, 2007 at 01:50
Congratulations from my side too
Dimitri
October 18th, 2007 at 04:06
Congrats! well done!
October 18th, 2007 at 05:22
Thanks all!
@Péter: I appreciate that to get such a statement from a customer!
Patrick
October 18th, 2007 at 12:07
Patrick,
Congratulations!
I have made it a habit to visit your blog every day.
Keep up the great work.
K
October 19th, 2007 at 00:19
Many congratulations Patrick! …and very well deserved too – your site is a mine of useful and interesting information.
Andrew
UK
October 19th, 2007 at 08:00
Congratulations Patrick on a very well deserved honor!
Mike Riley
Vice President – Oracle Development Tools User Group
October 20th, 2007 at 07:09
Congratulations Patrick – very well deserved indeed. Keep up the great work!
Ben
October 21st, 2007 at 01:25
Congratulations Patrick!
October 30th, 2007 at 11:12
Congratuatlions, Patrick! Very much deserved. Thanks for all of your many contributions to Oracle Application Express and the APEX community.
November 27th, 2007 at 05:51
Hey Patrick,
can you believe that i found out such great news only now???
It must be because i’ve been away for a while, anyway i’m sure that you absolutely deserved to win.
Ciao,
Flavio
September 12th, 2010 at 12:06
hi developer,
Could you pls help me for oracle apex application.
Actualy, i’m unable to generate a image file through apex application.
i did insert values in bfile then i copied bfile to blob through DECLARE
V_ERR VARCHAR2(4000);
temp_blob BLOB := empty_blob();
v_bfile_loc BFILE;
Bytes_to_load INTEGER := 4294967295;
v_rowid ROWID;
in_doc VARCHAR2(100);
BEGIN
v_ERR :=’PROCESSING STARTED’;
apex_util.set_session_state(‘F185_ERROR’,v_err);
SELECT bfile_loc INTO v_bfile_loc
FROM graphics_table
where bfile_id=:REQUEST FOR UPDATE;
v_file_loc:=upper(v_file_loc);
v_ERR :=V_ERR||’AFTER SELECT ONE ‘;
apex_util.set_session_state(‘F185_ERROR’,v_err);
DBMS_LOB.OPEN(v_bfile_loc, DBMS_LOB.LOB_READONLY);
v_ERR :=V_ERR||’AFTER BFILE ‘;
apex_util.set_session_state(‘F185_ERROR’,v_err);
DBMS_LOB.OPEN(temp_blob, DBMS_LOB.LOB_READWRITE);
v_ERR :=V_ERR||’AFTER BLOB OPEN ‘;
apex_util.set_session_state(‘F185_ERROR’,v_err);
DBMS_LOB.LOADFROMFILE(temp_blob, v_bfile_loc, Bytes_to_load);
v_ERR :=V_ERR||’AFTER COPY ‘;
apex_util.set_session_state(‘F185_ERROR’,v_err);
INSERT INTO graphics_blob (blob_id,blob_loc)
VALUES (:REQUEST,temp_blob);
v_ERR :=V_ERR||’AFTER INSERT2 ‘;
apex_util.set_session_state(‘F185_ERROR’,v_err);
DBMS_LOB.CLOSE(temp_blob);
DBMS_LOB.CLOSE(v_bfile_loc);
apex_util.set_session_state(‘F185_ERROR’,v_err);
v_ERR :=V_ERR||’AFTER CLOSE ‘;
htp.p(v_ERR);
apex_util.set_session_state(‘F185_ERROR’,v_err);
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN htp.p(v_ERR);
COMMIT;
END ;
after doing above activity,i’m getting no data found.
pls give me resolution of above problem.
thanks
Mohit
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