It’s time for a change!!! 
You may have already noticed that my blog looks quite different and has a bunch of new features. Have a look and explore it!
Oracle APEX Training: Knowhow aus der Praxis
The following posting is in German, since it is targeted towards the German speaking community in Europe.
Auf der Suche nach einem wirklich guten Oracle Application Express (APEX) Training? Welches auch nicht von einem Trainer gehalten wird welcher nur das Skript kennt und von Oracle APEX eigentlich nicht viel Ahnung hat?
Dann müssen Sie nicht mehr weitersuchen! Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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 Oracle Magazine article. Too bad that the online issue has no pictures… 
Your chance! Call for Paper for next ODTUG conference!
There is still a long time till the next ODTUG Kaleidoscope takes place in Monteray, but the deadline for sending in abstracts is coming closer and closer! 3rd November 2008 is the date you have to mark on your calendar. But don’t wait till the last minute!!
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 will feature it’s own Oracle APEX track with probably two parallel rooms just for APEX sessions. That would be more than 38 Oracle APEX sessions!!!
You will not guess where I’m! ;-)
On the other side it’s not very hard to guess. I’m there where most of the Oracle blogging and Oracle APEX community currently is. I’m at Oracle Open World in San Francisco.
I’m not sure how often I will blog, because I have a tight time schedule. But if you want to get hold of me, I will try to visit most of the Oracle APEX sessions.
On Tuesday, between 14:30 and 15:30 I’m doing my own presentation titled The Power of the Oracle APEX Repository (Session Id: 300210). It’s currently booked out, but you might get a chance to still get in.
Enough for now, I have to listen to Tom Kyte’s “Efficient Schema Design” now.
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.
DOAG Regionaltreffen in München zum Thema Oracle APEX
Just a quick announcement about an Oracle APEX meeting of the German Oracle Usergroup in Munich. The rest of the posting will be in German. Continue reading
Number of displayed Records of Oracle APEX Popup LOV
Recently I answered a question about where to change the number of displayed records of a Popup LOV in Oracle APEX and I thought it could be of general interest.
The behavior of Popup LOVs can be changed through the Popup Lov template. You can find it at
Shared Components\Templates\Popup LOV.
In the Pagination section you will find the property Display which defines how many records are displayed at once.
The Popup LOV template also contains other interesting settings like the icon which is used for the popup lov field or the text for the search button, the width and height which is used to display the popup lov window and much more. Just have a look!
Oracle APEX 3.1.2 is out!
The Oracle APEX team has released a new patchset for Oracle Application Express (APEX). According to the readme file the new version 3.1.2 contains 28 new bug fixes (Note: the list also contains the bugs from the previous patchset).
The full release can be downloaded from the OTN download side.
The patchset with just the changed files can be found on Metalink with the patch number 7313609.