Inside Oracle APEX by Patrick Wolf

See Tom Kyte and Tom DeMarco Live on 15th June in Vienna, Austria

Patrick Wolf — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:19:09 PDT

Ever wanted to see Tom Kyte and Tom DeMarco live on stage? That’s your opportunity to see both at one event! Check out the details at the conference page of the Austrian Oracle Usergroup. And the best news is that it’s free! See you there.

Oracle APEX 4.0 Early Adopter Release 3 available!

Patrick Wolf — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:01:11 PDT

Tryapexnow.com has just been updated with Oracle APEX 4.0 Early Adopter Release 3. Have a look! We are now feature complete and appreciate any help testing all those features. A detailed list with the new features should be available soon. For plug-ins I have extended the apex_plugin_util package with additional useful functions. Check them out! They [...]

Become an Oracle APEX Certified Expert for only $50!!!

Patrick Wolf — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:52:46 PDT

How is that possible to get a certification for only $50? Because Oracle University has started beta testing the new certification for Application Express and is looking for developers who are interested in becoming one of the first certified developers. But only for a limited time! So hurry up, get the details on the Oracle Certification [...]

Oracle 11gR2 for Windows available for download!

Patrick Wolf — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:29:42 PDT

Oracle 11gR2 for Windows has just been made available for download. It’s available from the Database Homepage on OTN. Get the details about what’s new in 11gR2 in the Lowering Your IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 white paper and in the New features guide of the online help. Also check out the [...]

Our team mate Scott died

Patrick Wolf — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:14:42 PDT

This morning we received the really sad news that we lost our team mate Scott Spadafore. Many of you know him (sspadafo) from the OTN APEX forum where he tirelessly tried to help people who had questions or problems with APEX. If you like to condolence, please do so in the posting of my manager. Let’s [...]

Oracle APEX 4.0 Early Adopter Blog Coverage – Part 3

Patrick Wolf — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:05:13 PST

Since my last Oracle APEX 4.0 blog coverage – Part 2 posting, new articles have been posted about our early adopter release 2. Have fun reading them! APEX 4.0 EA2 – Websheets by Dimitri Gielis [Oracle APEX 4.0] Text Field with autocomplete by Whitehorses APEX 4.0 EA2: Improved debugging, my new favorite feature by Mark Lancaster [Oracle APEX 4.0] [...]

Oracle APEX 4.0 – New Features in Early Adopter 2

Patrick Wolf — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:04:15 PST

It took a little bit longer as expected, but the new feature list of Oracle APEX 4.0 Early Adopter 2 is now online (link is at the end of the posting). The list contains the EA1 features as well. Hopefully we didn’t miss any new feature, there are to many to count. One of the [...]

Oracle APEX 4.0: Cascading LOVs/Select Lists

Patrick Wolf — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:20:26 PST

One of the new features of Early Adopter 2 are Cascading LOVs/Select Lists. I’m pretty sure that almost every APEX developer had already the requirement to refresh a child select list when a parent select list was changed. For example you pick a department in the first select list and the second should just [...]

Oracle APEX 4.0 Early Adopter Release 2 available!

Patrick Wolf — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:15:14 PST

Tryapexnow.com has just been updated to our new Oracle APEX 4.0 Early Adopter Release 2. Have a look, there are many new features, like WebSheets for example. A detailed list will be made available on Monday. I have also updated my plug-in example application with new plug-ins. Tutorials will follow soon. You can check it [...]

Oracle APEX 4.0 Early Adopter Blog Coverage – Part 2

Patrick Wolf — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:01:10 PST

Since my last Oracle APEX 4.0 blog coverage posting, new articles have been posted about our early adopter release. BTW, stay tuned. A refresh of the early adopter instance should happen soon and it will include many new features! But first read these blog postings featuring the current version on tryapexnow.com. APEX 4.0: Dynamic Actions [...]