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Season's readings
Have you discovered the OTech Magazine yet?This magazine is a brainchild of Douwe Pieter van den Bos and is now five quarterly issues young. The "Winter 2014" is a bumper issue this time, plenty of...
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Why I can't do webinars
This is why I can't do webinars from my current home.Ookla Speed Test ResultThe upload speed is no doubt way too slow to cater for voice and screencast. Unfortunately I also seem to be in quite the...
View ArticleThings learnt during APEX5 Universal Theme seminar by Shakeeb
Tonight I stayed up way past my bedtime (well, in the days of writing a book and Kscope presentations, midnight isn't that late).I watched and listened to Shakeeb Rahman from the APEX team on an ODTUG...
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apeks sticker, check.
There are some stickers are out there causing quite the sensation in the Oracle APEX Twitter community. Check it out and join the conversation.A couple of weeks ago I received my sticker from the...
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The Oracle APEX Talkshow
apex.press/talkshowNot only has Juergen been adding style, pride and awareness to laptops worldwide, he's also launched a podcast.I love podcasts. I listen to a few good science shows every week and...
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Customising APEX 5 Open Door Credentials
The polish that comes with APEX 5 also extends to the generic login screen used for the Open Door Credentials authentication scheme.This scheme is great for testing. It allows you to log into the...
View ArticleAUSOUG: Perth Seminar May 28
Attention Perth Oracle technologists.I'll be giving a dry run of my Kscope talk to the user group in Perth on May 28th, which happens to be the deadline for us to submit copies of our sessions to...
View ArticleAPEX 5 alternative to gReport.data.view('DETAIL')
I'm sure we've all done it at some point or another, used some "feature" in the database you're probably not meant to.Interactive reports still have a few misgivings prior to APEX 5 so some tried to...
View ArticleKscope15 Presentations of Interest
Kscope15 is insanely close and I'm very excited to be making the journey this year.A few months ago I made a list of presentations that piqued my interest to try encourage a business colleague to come...
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APEX iFrame Security setting
At some point during APEX development you may find yourself putting an Oracle APEX page within an iFrame.<iframe src="//myserver.com.au/ords/f?p=SAGE:1023:&SESSION."></iframe>Just...
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Review: Ex Machina
Do yourself a favour and buy, beg, borrow (don't steal) the movie "Ex Machina".Don't watch any trailers, don't read any articles, and don’t even read up on IMDB. Just trust that if you have any...
View ArticleKscope Journey
Boy that was a long trip.Sure, Perth to Dubai was 11 hours but on a brand new half full Airbus it wasn't so bad, even if we didn't get in early to move away from the bulk head seats. The leg room was...
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Bawston
Boston is a nice city, smaller than expected but full of culture.The weather was great for us and we took one of the Duck tours which took off from right outside our hotel.From out piggy tumblrWe don't...
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Washington memorials
I'm no patriot, and I'm certainly not American.I'm somewhat of a pacifist, but I appreciate the efforts of the brave in years past. I certainly felt an urge to to shake the hands of some of the aging...
View ArticleKScope15 APEX Symposiums
Kscope15 officially kicked off on Sunday with a set of symposiums, I stayed in the APEX room the whole day, though I really wanted to hear what Steven Feuerstein had to say after lunch in the other...
View ArticleListen to Kscope15 on Twitter
If you're at Kscope15 (even if you're not!), do you realise there is another set of conversations going on beyond the talks and beyond the between-session banter?It's online of course, and it's on...
View ArticleKScope Day 1
Day 1? Really, is that all? There are so many things going on it feels like day 3.And I'm not even participating in everything since I'm also coming back to do some family time each day.Chi GungI gave...
View ArticleKScope Day 2
I struggled a little bit this morning, for the first time in a few days the alarm woke be up with a start. I'm not sure my brain was ready. Kudos to those that tackled the 5k, I had the energy a few...
View ArticleBack to work, post Kscope15
After landing late Wednesday night I'm officially back to work on Monday morning, greeted with this:My return to work present, but I was told they missed my enthusiasm, which was nice...
View ArticleExploring dynamic pivot options
In looking for information on pivoting variable number of columns, I stumbled across a question I once managed to AskTom, many moons...
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