A question was asked in this thread on the APEX forums that got me itching to do a science experiment. The basic question was this: “Is it possible to produce ‘Growl’ style notifications in place of the standard APEX Success and Failure messages?” In short the answer is an unequivocal ‘Yes’, and here’s how: First, unless you’re a JavaScript whiz …
It’s been quiet… Too Quiet!
You have probably noticed that this blog has been very quite for the last few months… Well, there is a reason for that. Apart from the books that I’ve been involved in writing, we at Sumneva been working feverishly to put the finishing touches on our first product, sumnevaSERT. And today, we release it into the wild. And with all …
Oracle Author Podcast.
I recently had the pleasure of co-authoring the APress book, Beginning Oracle Application Express 4. It was both a trying and rewarding experience, but I’m glad I did it. A couple weeks ago I also participated in creating a Podcast about the book. Here’s some information about it… A conversation with Patrick Cimolini, Martin D’Souza, and Doug Gault; Authors of …
APEX 4.1 Early Adopter Available.
The APEX team has once again surpassed expectations and has released the Early Adopter version or APEX 4.1 on http://tryaxpexnow.com. A list of what’s new appears in the Feature Description application, but both Joel Kallman and David Peake warn that there is likely to be more in the final production release. After having a look at the features, here are …
Beginning Oracle Application Express 4
That’s the title of the book I’ve agreed to write for APRESS, or at least the working title. The book will be aimed at new comers to Application Express, introducing them to the environment via the development of a full system and using as many of the new features as possible. However, I’m hoping that it will be useful for …
Refreshing Flash Charts with AJAX.
NOTE: This post makes use of internal APEX JavaScript that is not part of the standard public API’s. Therefore it is likely not supported, so use at your own risk! ————————– Yesterday, I ran across this post on the OTN APEX Forums. The problem was basically this. Say you have a chart which you want to refresh each time someone …
Headed to RMOUG
All my bags are packed, and ready to go…. IN about 2 hours I’ll be stepping out the door to head to the Rocky Mountain Oracle user Group (RMOUG). Both Scott Spendolini and I will be presenting there on behalf of Sumneva. Scott will be presenting Troubleshooting Oracle Apex on Tuesday, and I’ll be presenting Performance Tuning APEX Applications and …
Warning a user that the form has changed he navigates away without saving.
For those of you who haven’t visited the new Sumneva.com site, here’s an excuse. We’ve added a Tips & Tricks section on the Support tab where we will be sharing little tid-bits of information that we learn as we work with APEX. Our goal is to try to continually add new entries and make this a repository of useful information. …
All Change Please…
As I mentioned in my last post, on June 1, 2009 I joined the team at Sumner Technologies. Since then, Scott Spendolini and I have been working on Sumner’s portfolio to broaden the scope of what we’re offering. New items include SumnerPrint, a PL/SQL-based solution that allows you to easily print APEX reports to PDF, HTML and XLS, and SumnerFramework, …
ODTUG Kaleidoscope – The countdown begins…
As many of you know, ODTUG Kaleidoscope runs from June 21-25 in Monterey, California. Topics covered will range from Essbase and Hyperion, BI and Data Warehousing, SOA, BPM to my favorite, Application Express. This year there are over 40+ APEX related presentations, a number of which will be presented by Oracle ACE and ACE DIRECTORS. Pretty exciting stuff if you’re …