Winds of Change
After three and half years at Enkitec, the last 1.5 of those years as Accenture Enkitec Group, it’s now time to make a change. It has been a great ride with a lot of highs, success, and accomplishments. I couldn’t …
Using Select2 on APEX tabular forms
I love the Select2 jQuery plugin. It’s a feature rich, good looking, select list replacement. As an APEX developer, it makes sense to use the excellent plugin from Nick Buytaert. Since its announcement, in Aug 2013, you would be hard …
Fill the Glass: Measuring Software Performance
I had the delight of participating on a “Fill The Glass” webinar (#FillTheGlass). Fill the Glass is a new style of, technology related, webinar series by Cary Millsap. Cary Millsap is a developer, teacher, writer, and consultant who has been …
Expert Oracle Application Express 2nd Edition
I’m really excited to share with you that the 2nd Edition of APRESS Expert Oracle Application Express (Amazon link) is now released. Some of the concepts in this book may apply to previous versions of APEX, but this book was created with …
Enhancement to waitPopup on APEX5
APEX 5 has a nifty nice enhancement to the use of apex.widget.waitPopup. It now returns a “remove” function you can call to remove the wait indicator. // variable for return function (add it to your “Function and Global Variable Declaration” …
12c WITH inline PL/SQL, json_from_sql, Bind Variables and AJAX
I recently got to use a new cool feature in Oracle 12c R1, the WITH clause with inline PL/SQL (read more at oracle-base). Then Scott Wesley blogged about it and I made a comment on twitter. But don’t stop reading …
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HSL color format rocks!
Do you struggle finding a suitable color for a hover state or a selected item? If yes, read on. Check out this simple example. You’ll see the color represented in the usual RGB hex values and in HSL. The HSL …
SharePoint to Oracle data conversion
The purpose of this post is to document the process I used to convert the data from a Microsoft SharePoint site to an Oracle database with an APEX front end. However, there won’t be much about APEX in this post, sorry. …
A wireframe is worth a 1000 words
I better get this out of the way. I love Balsamiq Mockups! There, I said it. This post will probably sound like an advertisement, but it’s not. It’s unsolicited and I paid for my own version of Balsamiq. However, for …
KScope14 Presentation
Here’s my KScope14 presentation: Go-Go Gadget: Learn About Inspectors I recommend you use the space bar to navigate forward. You can also use arrows. If you’re interested here’s the companion demo app. App Download Live app on apex.oracle.com/f?p=11001 If you …