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Why? oh Why! A great friend, an amazing APEX guy…

I couldn’t believe what I read when I first got up in the morning. But it got confirmed by other posts and some people in OraTweet….Carl Backstrom had a car accident on Sunday and passed away.It’s unbelievable, I wish it wasn’t true! What do you need…

Posted 28 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX @ ODTUG 2009

In the last years the number of APEX presentations at ODTUG have grown every year. For 2009 we plan to have even more! The ODTUG board asked John Scott, Scott Spendolini, Patrick Wolf and myself to be responsible for the Application Express Track conte…

Posted 21 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

ApexBlogs.info fixed

The last couple of weeks the blogger sites didn’t get updated in the Apex Blogs aggregator. Apparently the site is getting popular as I got a lot of mails to tell me.The problem was the comments were not retrieved due to a change somewhere in the xml. …

Posted 06 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX SIG on Linkedin

I realize I didn’t blog about it yet, but some months ago I created also an APEX SIG group on Linkedin. There are currently over 60 members.Linkedin is an online network of more than 25 million experienced professionals from around the world. Already a…

Posted 02 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OOW08 - Last day

On the last day of Oracle Open World I followed one session.At 9 AM John Scott presented Dispelling Myths About Oracle Application Express.I really liked this session as it started differently, the topic is hot and he made use of some nice visual effec…

Posted 27 September 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OOW08 - XMLDB and APEX, keynote, Appreciation Event

After some nice breakfast with John I went to my first session of the day.Mark Drake talked about “Oracle Application Express and Oracle XML Database: A Match Made in the Database”. I really enjoyed the session as I think the possibilities of both tech…

Posted 25 September 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OOW08 - work, demo grounds, APEX Meetup

In the morning I had to do some work for our customers, so I missed the Benelux event at San Francisco. I guess I can go to Oracle HQ and do some sailing next time too. Client is king ;-)I didn’t go to that many sessions, instead I went to the demo gro…

Posted 25 September 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OOW08 - Larry announces Oracle hardware - APEX will run fast

The keynote just finished. Larry Ellison announced Oracle is also providing hardware together with HP. If you want the worlds fastest machine for the Oracle database you should buy Exadata!If you think about it… some say that APEX can’t scale (which …

Posted 24 September 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OOW08 - APEX Charts, Meetings, Oracle Forms conversion, Dinner

On Monday at 11.30 I gave my presentation about Charting in Oracle Application Express.I tried to build things up, so beginner and more advanced users would learn something. The room was pretty full, around 70 people I think. I talked why you would lik…

Posted 24 September 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OOW08 - Waiting for Larry

I’m currently in the keynote session at Oracle Open World. 30 minutes to go before Larry Ellison will come and do a big announcement ;-)This time I’ve a good seat… people are still coming in…Didn’t have the time yet to finish the blog posts of the …

Posted 24 September 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °