A few weeks ago some co-workers of mine were having a discussion about IDEs and concluded that their Eclipse would be the right choice for all most every project. Sure IntelliJ had some nice features and so has JDeveloper, but Eclipse had plugins to do the same. Did Eclipse had the best of the IDE [...]

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Last month Oracle released a statement of direction for SQL Developer (here it is). Apart from the enhanced testing capabilities the most important feature will be the support of graphical logical and physical data modeling - just like you normally would do using Oracle Designer - using the acquired CDW4ALL extension. This modeling can be [...]

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You may know, or not know, that there are various kinds of software tests that may help you ensure that your code meets the requirements and behaves as intended, like Unit Testing, Scenario Testing, Integration Testing, etc. And the better your test coverage, the lower the risk and the safer you feel modifying your code [...]

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Creating out of the box functionality for web apps with APEX is as fun as it is challenging. Some time ago Roel Hartman and me started working on a transport and logistics application in APEX. (Roel allready blogged about it once here)
One specific part of this application was a planboard which used dragging and dropping [...]

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This blog is about software metrics in a very broad interpretation; software quality metrics. During our last project we wanted to elevate the software quality and the quality of the software development process. The first thing that came to our mind was to focus on metrics to evaluate and guide the quality of the code, [...]

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When building a serious application you often need to repeat certain regions in a couple of pages, for instance customer or order information. In APEX you can ofcourse copy a region to another page, but that enhances your maintenance effort when changes are needed on this copied region. Another solution is to group all the [...]

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For a (even more) Web 2.0 like look-and-feel in your APEX application you can define a dynamic region ‘My Favorite Tasks’, that shows links to the pages you visit most frequently.
For these favorites we can query the APEX repository. Follow these steps to get this thing working:
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