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Apiary and APEX
More and more projects I work on at the minute make use of RESTful Web Services. These can either be a way of exposing our own data or a way to make use of data from external systems. They are easy to create in the Oracle Database to surface your own data – check out...
Creating an Online Leaderboard in APEX
In my spare time I like to play around with creating video games in technologies other than Oracle (!). I recently created a game for an online community that I participate in and I was asked whether I could create a leader board to go with it. I had never done this...
Case Study: Generis Technology Ltd
For the past 16 years, Generis Technology Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the global Landis+Gyr Group, has supplied a suite of applications under the B-Smart brand which supports interaction in deregulated energy markets. Utilising an Oracle Forms user interface,...
UKOUG Tech 18 Debrief: New Universal Theme features in APEX 18
In my first blog (ever) I am going to give you a flavour of what I saw at the UKOUG Tech18 Conference in Liverpool. At the conference, I was mainly concentrating on the talks relating to the new features of APEX 18 and Universal Theme. I attended two of Shakeeb...
APEX Report Performance
Recently at the UKOUG TECH18 Conference I gave a presentation entitled ‘Choosing the Right Report & Features to Give your Users when Presenting Data in an APEX Application’ which you can read more about here. During the presentation, one of the common problems...
Making an APEX Wizard Clickable
Recently I was at the Tech 18 conference in Liverpool where I went to an APEX presentation by Adrian Trotman on the power of lists. During his presentation (which was good by the way), he gave out a challenge to the room. He asked if anyone could make the wizard list...
The Numerous Options for APEX 18.1 Interactive Grid Validations
I’ve written a number of blogs lately; however the one I am quite fond of is the one I did on Client Side Validations back in 2017. I look favourably back on this because it piqued my interest of what APEX is capable of in this area. I purposely omitted Interactive...
UK OUG Tech18 APEX State Of The Union
If, like me, you attended UK OUG’s Tech18 conference at ACC Liverpool and have a particular interest in Application Express, you may well have attended Joel Kallman’s “State Of The Union” address. This blog is a review of Joel’s presentation, and of the key messages...
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Cloud Adjacent Architecture accelerates Oracle performance by 27x [infographic]
OCEAN stands for Oracle Cloud, Enterprise Architecture & Networks and is a methodology for Oracle Cloud and multi-cloud adoption alongside on-premise infrastructure hosted within private cage(s) inside Equinix datacentres. Moving Enterprise Architecture closer to...
Application Archive for Presentations
For my Tech18 presentation ‘The Numerous options for APEX 18.1 Interactive Grid Validation” I needed to prepare a deck of slides and a demo APEX application in which I can quickly switch to. During rehearsals I need to place the APEX application in its “starting...
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