The Background This blog post is drill down follow-up of a feature I talked about in my KScope14 presentation “Go-Go Gadget: Learn About Inspectors”. In that presentation I explained how using the $0 feature in most modern DevTools and Inspectors …
Easy prototyping when using APEX DA triggeringElement Read more »
UPDATE Sept 5, 2014: Visit apexmeetups.com to find the most up to date list of meetup groups! If you’re interested in APEX and you live near Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota, we want to meet you! Click the RSVP button to attend our …
Recently, I had the requirement of showing how many pending whatchamacallits I had with a visual count indicator. I thought that a small bubble with the count would fit the bill. A quick search for “iphone badge css” yielded many …
Report templates can be a powerful feature for altering the way a report looks. They fall under two main Template Types: Generic Columns and Named Columns. This blog post covers Generic Columns and the ability we have to specify a …
In the previous post I explained my approach to a menu drawer for the desktop. Now lets talk about how to remember if the drawer was left open or closed by the user. One approach would be to use Cookies. …
In this blog post I’ll go through the steps I followed to build a mobile style “menu drawer”, like the animation you see here, but for your desktop application. This UI element is not something I would consider for a …
I use Dan McGhan’s Modal Page Plugin extensively. I think it’s fantastic and I can’t imagine not using it on any new project. The Oracle APEX Team must have also recognized it’s usefulness because the functionality is now baked into …
Here is a very quick entry, mostly to document how I sometimes keep applications in dev and QA (or prod) apart. Lately I’ve been working with development and QA applications that live in the same workspace and server. Dev would …
Recognize your APEX dev, qa and prod environments Read more »
I’m very excited to be part of KScope once again this year. June 22-26, 2014 The location is the beautiful city of Seattle, Washington. I’ll be doing two presentations. First, I’ll be co-presenting with Scott Spendolini on “Creating Business-Oriented UI …
NOTE: In APEX5 you’ll want to switch from APEX_UTIL.PUBLIC_CHECK_AUTHORIZATION to APEX_AUTHORIZATION.IS_AUTHORIZED. Thank you to Dali for the comment. –April, 27 2015 APEX Authorization Schemes are a very effective and simple way to restrict elements in our applications. Once defined, these …