As those who read my blog know, I recently started a new job with Oracle. A very large part of what i do means being connected internally through the Oracle VPN. Having been a consultant for many MANY years, I’ve come to the realization that putting a fence around VPN is a good idea wherever possible. So instead of installing …
A CHANGE IN DIRECTION
Having just re-read quite a few of my previous blog posts (especially the last two), I can see that over the last while I’ve been a bit restless and unsettled. Looking back over my career recently I realized that I’ve been doing consulting for probably 20+ of my 28 year tenure. I don’t regret any part of it as it’s …
Coming Full Circle.
In April’s blog post, I alluded to the fact that the future had a number of changes in store and that I wasn’t exactly sure what shape those changes would take. Since April, a lot has happened; avenues have been explored, opportunities have been entertained, and decisions have been made. It’s been a very interesting few weeks, but I believe …
The Road Not Taken
In June 2012, Scott Spendolini and I signed the papers whereby Enkitec acquired the assets of Sumneva. We announced this big news at ODTUG KSCOPE and it was met with quite a lot of interest and more than a few congratulatory beers. Our goal was to step away from the day-to-day trappings of running your own business (i.e. Accounting, Sales, …
ORCLAPEX-DFW First Meetup.
Calling all APEX Fanatics in the DFW area, there’s a new Meetup for you: ORCLAPEX – DFW. Here’s a link to our first event! Grass Roots Explosion As Dan McGhan mentioned in his blog here, Oracle APEX meet up groups are popping up all over the world. This is a grass roots effort lead by people who are passionate about APEX …
You don’t have to wait for APEX 5 for FullCalendar Integration
One of the MANY nice things that is coming in APEX 5.0 is the native integration of the jQuery based FullCalendar, known in the APEX 5.0 Builder as the CSS Calendar. While the native integration will be nice, you shouldn’t have to wait for APEX 5.0 for this functionality. Enter the Enkitec FullCalendar plugin. We integrated FullCalendar into our website …
APEX Printing in Depth – OOW Sunday Symposium
If you’re going to Oracle Open World and will be there for the ODTUG Sunday APEX Symposium, then you’re in for quite an interesting set of sessions. When discussing what would be a good topic for this year’s set of presentations, we wanted to focus on an area within APEX from which everyone could gain some benefit. Although there are …
Of Multiple screens and Mac Menus
Those who know me probably know I’ve been a Mac convert for a number of years. At home I have several Macs for various purposes, but at work I have a MacBook Air and a 27″ Cinema Display that I use to do most of my work. I’ve always had a problem with the fact that the Mac menu bar …
APEX and Exadata is in my future.
Since joining forces with Enkitec, I’ve managed to stay blissfully unaware of some of the things that they’re best known for. Namely being top of the food chain when it comes to knowing what’s what about Exadata. However, that’s about to change! A couple of the larger clients we worked with while we were still Sumneva have become so successful …
Warning a user that the form has changed – Tabular Form Style.
Quite some time ago, I wrote a quit tip about How to Warn a User That the Form Has Changed. The gist of the post was this: “It’s a common problem. A user spends time entering data into a form and then, for some reason, clicks a button or tab that will navigate away from the form without saving his …