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 be available to discuss any questions, issues or feedback you might have.

Here are the dates, locations and links to register:

Marriott Bridgewater, NJ
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Hilton New York, NY
Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

See you there!

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 you’re travelling with your iPhone, iPad, or Android, then look no further, here’s you mobile web app you’ve been waiting for. With this app - build with Oracle Application Express 4.0 - you’ll easily find all the APEX related sessions, hands-on labs and the Demo-Grounds schedule by date, company, presenter and location:

http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=oow2010

… if you’re travelling with any other device, like one of these laptop computers or netbooks they’ve been using way back when, you’ll still get to enjoy this app, as long as you’re using a Webkit based browser, like Apple Safari, or Google Chrome.

Hope to see you there, I’m up on stage on Monday, 11:30am, Hotel Nikko, Golden Gate, talking about Tabular Forms in APEX 4.0.

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 4.0 include:

• Websheets
• Team Development
• Dynamic Actions
• Plug-Ins
• Enhanced Interactive Reports
• Improved Tabular Forms
• Updated Charts
• Support for RESTful Web Services
• Modernized Themes & Templates
• Dynamic calendars
• and many more...

You can read all about the new release, the new features, how to get started and how to install Application Express on our updated OTN home page. And if you're not quite ready yet to update to the latest release, or if you haven't used APEX before, and just want to get to know it, you can sign up for a free workspace at http://apex.oracle.com.

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 showed us a web development framework called “Oracle Platform”, which was based on PL/SQL of all languages. Surely this couldn’t be any good, so un-cool, so last century, so not Java. Yet given the mess our project was in, we had no alternatives, had to give it a try and actually managed to bring this project to a successful close.

We were so much older then, ….

Web Bid & Compliance Team, July 2001

A few months later, Scott and I joined the “Oracle Platform” team, which today is better known as the APEX team – and the rest, as they say, is history.

Scott passed away last night. I truly enjoyed working with him over all these years and hanging out with him, whenever we had a chance to meet. I don’t think APEX and the APEX community would be what they are today without his many contributions. Thank you Scott!

OTN Developer Day in New York City on 01/13

Spend a day with us learning the key tools, frameworks, techniques, and best practices for building database-backed applications. Gain hands-on experience developing database-backed applications with innovative and performance-enhancing methods using tools such as Oracle Application Express, SQL Developer, Java and .NET. Meet, learn from, and network with Oracle database application development experts and your peers.

APEX 4.0 Early Adopter available now!

On Friday night last week we launched the Early Adopter’s release of Oracle Application Express 4.0. You can try it out by signing up for a free workspace on our hosted instance at:

http://tryapexnow.com

You’ll be asked to fill out a brief survey, after which you’ll be able to request a workspace.

This early adopter's release does not yet include all the features you’ll see in the final product. Other features, that are already included, are not yet complete. And this being an early adopter’s release, there are several bugs and issues you’ll encounter.

One of the areas I’m focusing on, is the new APEX user interface, and the new theme 1. Both are still work in progress, i.e. we recommend using Firefox for now. Other browsers, including Internet Explorer will be supported down the road.

Please send us your feedback using the feedback link found in the upper right-hand corner of the Application Builder.

Live from New York – It’s APEX 4.0!!!

Want to see what’s new in APEX 4.0, and get a live demo of new features like Dynamic Actions, Updated Flash Charts, Plug-Ins, Tabular Form Validations, Improved Timestamp Support and many other features currently in development? Then come to New York City next Tuesday, December 8th, and visit the NYC Metro Oracle Users Group Day at the New Yorker Hotel:

NYC Metro Oracle Users Group Day

This year, we’re doing the Oracle Technology Solutions Fair as part of this event and I’ll be showing APEX 4.0 all day at the Oracle Database Tools demo table. So don’t miss this opportunity to get a first-hand look at APEX 4.0 in action.