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APEX 3.1 goes live

If you didn’t catch it yet, the Oracle team behind Application Express have been working hard (as always!) and have just released APEX 3.1
There are some incredibly cool features in 3.1, such as (from the SoD):

Interactive reporting region types which natively integrate Web 2.0 features to filter, break, sort data, etc.

Beginner Application Express Training (5.2 on the Richter Scale)

I’ve been helping out providing some on-site beginner level Apex training for a company here in the UK over the last few weeks and it’s been quite a nice change for me since I’m usually called in for Advanced Level Training instead.
None of the attendees were what I’d call ‘Oracle Developers’ or indeed Developers at [...]

ADVERT : Agenda European APEX Training Days

A few days ago we released our agenda to the people coming to the AE European Oracle Application Express Training Days.
This training will be held in London in March 18th-20th 2008. It’s not a beginners training, more an advanced one, although “advanced” is difficult to measure.
There are still a few places left, so if you [...]

Application Express Best Practices

It doesn’t seem 5 minutes since I was presenting at UKOUG and I’m already starting to prepare for the next set of conferences.
So far this year I’m going to be presenting at IOUG Collaborate in Denver (April) and also at ODTUG in New Orleans (June).
At both conferences I’m going to be presenting on the same [...]

8 Things…my turn

Well, the craze at the moment is the whole ‘8 things’ thing and whilst I heartily agree with Howard about the potential this has for making the aggregators work overtime, it would be rude (and very bah-humbug) to not take my turn after being tagged by Tim Hall.
So my turn for 8 things about me [...]

UKOUG 2007 - Feedback results are in

A nice email popped into my Inbox today to let me know that the feedback results are in for the UKOUG 2007 conference at which I presented Debugging APEX Applications back in December (it seems so long ago now!).
I was in two minds whether to blog about my ‘results’, since on the one hand if [...]

UKOUG Day 4

We’re here already, final day of UKOUG! It’s gone really quick, all that preparation and then it’s over until next year.
It was quite a ‘lazy’ start to the day, checking out of the hotel and loading up the car with bags, then heading over to Peter Lorenzen’s session on “How to make your APEX Application [...]

UKOUG Day 3 (or “Sharing a stage with Tom Kyte”)

Today was the big ‘APEX day’, with 3 APEX presentations and the APEX roundtable.
I met Dimitri at the Hotel as he’d just flown in and had been unable to make the start of the conference. We headed over to the ICC for the first APEX session of the day -

Programming Real Applications with Application Express [...]

UKOUG Day 2

It’s a nice short walk from the hotel to the conference centre, but it’s also a nice scenic one walking along the canal.

Today I started off with “Oracle SQL Developer Latest Features” by Sue Harper, SQL Developer is a fantastic (and free!) tool that is becoming more and more tightly integrated with Application Express and [...]

UKOUG Day 1

About 2 hours before I set off to drive down to the UKOUG (thankfully no trans-atlantic Jetlag inducing journey for an Oracle conference this time!) I realised I’d ‘lost’ my IPaq which I use for GPS.
Knowing that my chances of driving down to Birmingham and finding the hotel (Jurys Inn, where all the ‘tech [...]