Building Advanced Tabular Forms was the first subject of the day. In APEX you can build tabular forms (a multi record update form) using a wizard or manually (with the APEX_ITEM API and processing with the APEX_APPLICATION API. Another option is using a collection which gives you full control on the processing - like distributing [...]

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The first session of this day was APEX Development: Watch it live! by Bill Holtzman of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. He built a Grievance Control system for the NATCA used by hundreds of users. Now he showed live how to build a football betting system in only 45 minutes (using some prefab [...]

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Today started off with a keynote of Vince Casarez about ‘Web 2.0 meets the enterprise‘. He showed some really cool stuff included in Webcenter, like the carrousel (similar to the iTunes coverflow), dynamic charts that were refreshed using push technology. This is the stuff Oracle itself is using for their Fusion apps.
Next John Scott was [...]

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The day started with a rather fierce thunderstorm, and I can tell you that if it rains in New Orleans it really rains! This day was a sort of warming-up for the real conference with three full day symposiums on Essbase, APEX and Fusion. I attended the ‘The Seasoning of Application Express - Must hear [...]

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After an 18 hour trip from my home I arrived at the Sheraton in New Orleans. Luckily this time I also got my bag (at OOW 2007 it arrived a day later). A small wonder, because my transfer time in Houston was reduced from 1 ½ hour to 20 minutes due to the border control [...]

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

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Logica Denmark is proud to announce an free full day APEX seminar in collaboration with Oracle. Come by and hear Anthony Rayner from Oracle UK introduce the product and talk about what is coming in release 4.0. Erik Birklund Andersen and Peter Lorenzen will talk about Logica’s experience with APEX and the business opportunities [...]

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This was my first time at the UKOUG conference. It has been a nice week. I think there was almost 3.000 delegates, so it is a pretty big event compared to the 600 that were at the ODTUG conference. Every room has an usher and a technical person to setup the audio/visual equipment which made [...]

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