In a couple of weeks ODTUG’s Kaleidscope 2008 takes off. Tis year’s theme seems to be: APEX, APEX and again..APEX. At least, for me it is. Because my preliminary schedule is packaged with 24(!) APEX sessions in 5 days. So at Thursday afternoon I should know everything I always wanted to know about APEX, but were afraid to ask.
I’m looking forward visiting New Orleans and meet again some friends from the Oracle blogosphere. I will report back my findings here!

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After developing in Ruby on Rails for a while I settled back in ‘Java land’ for a good old Java project. For this project we extended the capabilities of an existing webapplication built on Struts, Spring and iBatis. Sounds like fun doesn’t it ?
Well to be honest those frameworks are pretty solid and stable and [...]

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Our seminar took place Wednesday the 23/04. The blog have been under construction for a while, so therefore this late post
The seminar went very well. There was 55 participants. Some of them were from Logica, so there were around 50 customers which we were extremely happy with. We did a mix of demos [...]

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On the 22nd of May, Oracle released version 3.1.1 of Application Express to the public. Lots of new and interesting features come loaded into this version of APEX, below are some of the key features and improvements, specifically for using APEX in combination with Oracle XE:
(quoting Oracle here!)

Can be installed directly into Database 10g Express [...]

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As of today two of Logica’s weblogs have been merged; BloggingAboutJava & BloggingAboutOracle. Both have been around for quite some time but since the internal movement of management to combine oracle and java into the Software Development Cluster, we decided it was time to merge the blogs.
We now have one blog with about 45 users [...]

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Third day of JavaOne and still going strong. I did not see much of the San Francisco city yet. There’s no time. Breakfast at JavaOne, lunch at JavaOne, sessions at JavaOne, a quick dinner and back to JavaOne to blog for a while. so this week is all about Java(One).
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The opening of the day was presented by the Oracle company. They shared their vision about Java with all the JavaOne visitors. Oracle sees SOA, WEB 2.0 and grid computing as the main upcoming Java issues. And of course, Oracle has an IDE which supports all these items. They showed this by giving a [...]

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Finally JavaOne 2008 (JAVA+YOU theme) has started. After hearing all the stories about it, it seems even bigger than I thought it would be. Everything is well organized and there are no time consuming queues. (compared to the JavaPolis conference in Antwerp)
After a fantastic streetdance show, the conference was opened by the hot shots of [...]

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