APEX-Community meets Development – Munich, May 16th


Mark your calendars for May 16th. Following the Cloud World events (more...)

Oracle OTN Developer Day in New York on May 7th


Are you interested in developing and running your Oracle Application Express applications (more...)

PDF Printing with Oracle Application Express 4.2.2


Oracle Application Express 4.2.2 was released today, you can download the full release from the Download page on OTN. As always, there have been numerous improvements and bug fixes. We’ve updated many of our included packaged applications and we’ve introduced a new packaged application: the Survey Builder, which (more...)

Oracle Cloud World – London May 14th & Munich May 15th


I’ll be presenting Oracle Application Express as part of the Oracle Database Cloud Service at the Cloud World events in London and Munich next month.

At Oracle Cloud World you’ll hear from Oracle executives, thought leaders, customers, and partners as they share ideas on how to transform business and stay (more...)

APEX at the NYOUG Special Winter Meeting


Just back from the DOAG conference (German Oracle User Group) in Nuremberg, it’s now time to get ready for an event closer to home: the annual NYOUG Special Winter Meeting at The New Yorker Hotel on December 12. If you’re interested in APEX and the Oracle Database, please stop by (more...)

APEX at DOAG 2012

Only one week to DOAG 2012 - the most important conference for Oracle users in Germany. The event takes place in Nuremberg, Nov 20th – 22nd. This year there will be 26 presentation on Oracle Application Express alone! 

Make sure to attend the sessions presented by Patrick Wolf, (more...)

Kscope ’12 and the Rodeo Special Event


Just arrived back home in New York after a great week at the ODTUG Kscope ’12 conference in San Antonio, TX. It was great meeting many members of our ever growing APEX community again, seeing several outstanding presentations on APEX and other topics and being able to present to our (more...)

Application Express 4.2 Early Adopter and Kscope 12


Today we released the first Early Adopter version of Oracle Application Express 4.2 – right in time for ODTUG KScope12. You can sign up and give it a try:


One of our focus areas in this release of course has been Mobile. And while we’re still (more...)

Dynamic Images in PDF – What 32k Limit?

Looks like it's time to follow up on a Blog posting I wrote in 2008 about including dynamic images in PDF reports. After being called out on that good old 32k limit in a recent Blog posting by Roel Hartman, and reading through the recent OTN Forum posts and tweets (more...)

Mobile APEX Apps – Next Steps

It's been a few weeks since my last Blog posting on mobile development, or any topic for that matter. I've been busy doing Cloud development and talking about it at UKOUG and NYOUG. Then there's the ongoing work on APEX 4.1.1, which actually won't ship with jQuery Mobile (more...)

Getting Started with Mobile in APEX – Part 2

jQuery Mobile 1.0 Final was released today! Time to take it for a spin. As outlined in my previous post, jQuery Mobile is available for download on the jquerymobile.com web site:

Alternatively, if you were referencing the CDN, you could of course also simply update your (more...)

Getting Started with Mobile in APEX – Part 1

With jQuery Mobile moving closer to production, I finally started working on my paper documenting how to develop mobile applications with APEX 4.1 We've put a lot of changes into APEX 4.1 that make the integration of frameworks like jQuery Mobile easier. Full mobile support, with mobile templates (more...)

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Learn all about Oracle's Database Cloud Service at my upcoming presentations in New York and Birmingham, UK. Announced at Oracle Open World 2011, the Oracle Public Cloud is a set of integrated services that provide access to Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and the Oracle Database. The focus of (more...)

Oracle APEX 4.0 Cookbook

Thanks to some recent train travel, I had a chance to catch up on some reading, and so I looked at the recently published Oracle APEX 4.0 Cookbook by Michel van Zoest and Marcel van der Plas. It's great to see more and more APEX books coming out, and (more...)

8th Annual NYC Metro Oracle Users Group Day

If you're in the NYC metro area tomorrow, come join me at the 8th Annual NYC Metro Oracle Users Group Day. The day kicks off with Andy Mendelsohn's keynote on Oracle 11g. Andy Mendelsohn is Oracle's Senior Vice President of Database Server Technologies, and our team, the Oracle Application Express (more...)

culture shock ;-)

This week's DOAG 2010 conference in Nuremberg finally gave me an opportunity again to visit Germany after not having been there in a few years, and to present to a very engaged local APEX community in my native tongue. I think the conference was a great success and I was (more...)

APEX at Oracle Technology Fairs in NY & NJ

Are you an Oracle Application Express user in the New York / New Jersey metropolitan area? If so, stop by one of Oracle's upcoming Technology Solutions & Systems Fairs. Those are free, half-day events where I'll be demonstrating Oracle Application Express, SQL Developer and the SQL Developer Data Modeler. I'll (more...)

Getting Ready for Oracle Open World 2010

Are you coming to Oracle Open World next week and are you wondering what sessions to attend while you’re there? Well, if (more...)

Oracle Application Express 4.0 available now!

After more than two years of development, a number of hosted early adopter's releases and after having successfully updated apex.oracle.com, Release 4.0 of Oracle Application Express is now available for download on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).

The main enhancements and new features of Oracle Application Express (more...)

Scott Spadafore

Nearly 10 years ago, Scott and I worked on a Consulting project in Chicago, enthusiastically writing J2EE applications, extending the Oracle E-Business Suite, and headed for near certain project failure, when our team got introduced to some obscure group of Sales Consultants out of Oracle Government, Education and Healthcare. They (more...)