I don't post about it very often, but my wife is a self-published author. She focuses mainly on "speculative fiction"--fantasy mixed with sci-fi (in varying quantities). Here's a list of her published works. Full disclaimer: she has expressly … [Continue reading]
APEX 5.0 Hidden Gem: Developer Toolbar
This week, we return to the Hidden Gems series. This gem isn't very hidden--you're likely to have seen it a lot already--but it's easy to overlook the power that it provides. I'm talking about the lowly developer toolbar. The toolbar in APEX 4.x … [Continue reading]
Upgrading Applications to the Universal Theme
I'm going to take a short break from the Hidden Gems series (more gems coming, I promise!) to talk about the process of converting applications to the new Universal Theme (I'll call it UT for convenience) in APEX 5.0, because there are several items … [Continue reading]
APEX 5.0 Hidden Gem: Change Region Type
As promised, I'm starting a series of posts on what I feel are "hidden gems" of APEX 5.0. Since it's still in Early Adopter (you can try it here now!), there is the chance that these features may not exist in the final release, or they may not … [Continue reading]
Coming Soon: APEX 5.0 Hidden Gems!
It's been quite a while since I posted here. While there are many reasons, the biggest is that most of my time at work has been working on updating the APEX packaged applications to the new 5.0 look-and-feel--which means that I've been working in … [Continue reading]
Hidden Gems of APEX
I just finished giving my presentation on "Hidden Gems of APEX" at the East Coast Oracle Users conference. I was pleasantly surprised at attendance--I'd guess that I had about 20 to 25 people. As promised, here is the slide deck for my … [Continue reading]
Conference News
Wow, it's been a while since I updated this blog. Sorry about that--I moved in the summer, and have been spending time with some of the stuff that comes up whenever you go through a significant life change. Oh, yeah, and I've been doing a lot of … [Continue reading]
APEX Tip: Page Items to Submit
One issue that I run into periodically--especially when working with dynamic actions--is that the value of a page item in session state doesn't match its value in the browser (what I call the DOM state). The simplest way to think about it is to view … [Continue reading]
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