Oracle officially renamed good old (?) HTML DB to Oracle Application Express. Look at their press release. Not everybody is too happy about that, for instance take a look at Scott Spendolini’s Blog. Someone even started a poll about the new name!
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Allways thought that a 100% generated Web PL/SQL application was restricted in lay out?
Then take a look at www.podhead.dk to see what a 100% generated web application could (or should) look like!
Danish is rather one of my weakest subject but IMHO a fine piece of work!
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Last friday and saturday LogicaCMG organised an internal RADRace. The man who made the assignment was nobody other than Ivan Verborgh, the man who makes the assignments for the international RADRace.
The assignment was to make a webbased application with which people could apply for a license plate. It had to contain at least:

Multi-lingual screens
A webservice [...]

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One of the major new features of Java 5.0 is generics. The main purpose of generics is to provide you with a way to make type safe collections, for example, you can specify that your List contains only String objects. The obvious advantages are that the compiler can check at compile time that nothing else [...]

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We all know that Microsoft doesn’t like Java. But did you know that Microsoft in their license agreement even warns users that Java technology is potentially deadly?
Yakov Fain discovered this when he was reading a Microsoft end-user license agreement:
The software product may contain support for programs written in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant [...]

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