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APEX

The Modular Layout Application in APEX

November 12, 2009

In my previous post, about a.s.a.p. APEX, one of my readers points out that he (or she) doesn’t actually understands what I meant. The reader, who has the appropriate name of ‘My Name’, even offers me a job in order for him to understand what I meant! So, let me be a bit more clear [...]

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As Simple As Possible APEX

November 4, 2009

I’ve talked about this before, but I think that it’s worthy enough to talk about it over and over again. When developing in Oracle Application Express, we want to make things as simple as possible. Even if it’s only because it give you the room to develop with multiple developers, develop a large and even [...]

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When we go to production!

October 21, 2009

Using Oracle’s Application Express for developing web applications that can host large amounts of users is nothing new. That this technology can host multiple types of applications in once isn’t a secret either, but when we take a look at deploying a real live situation we certainly can’t say that most of us know exactly [...]

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#OOW09 Forms Conversion and the Kickoff

October 15, 2009

Yesterday, at Oracle OpenWorld, David Peake gave the presentation on Oracle Forms to Application Express conversion. For me, as author of a book about the subject, there wasn’t much to learn over there, but it was great to see that a lot of people are interested in the subject. David and Hilary Farrell showed that [...]

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#OOW09 : Today is Forms Conversion Day!

October 12, 2009

After an exiting day at Oracle OpenWorld yesterday with announcements about a new Oracle Partner program, the new Exadata Database machine, some toying and hassling towards Big Blue (IBM) and numerous drinks and chats during the Connect opening ceremony, we arrived at day two of Oracle OpenWorld 2009. For me, it promises to be a [...]

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Stress testing your APEX application

October 5, 2009

When we develop an externally available application using Oracle Application Express (or an APEX application for a large amount of users), one of the important things to do before we put the application in production is performing a stress test. This means that we will try to pretend that we are a lot of users [...]

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