Dimitri Gielis Blog (Oracle Application Express - APEX)

You remember the old days? 2006 ... APEX aka HTMLDB was still the new kid on the block! To promote APEX at that time I build an Oracle APE...

A few days ago Oracle brought out a new patch for APEX 4.2, this will be the latest version of this build, the next version of APEX will be...

Yesterday a new version of the Oracle APEX Listener was released. The new version is 2.0.6... and the biggest change in this release is ...

ODTUG announced  a few days ago the Oracle APEX Theming Competition. Make an awesome APEX theme and you may win some cool prices! In t...

Every year we at APEX Evangelists come together to discuss the past and the future of the company. In the past 7 years a lot has changed; t...

APEX 5.0 allows you to create a new Calendar type, called CSS Calendar. The CSS Calendar is based on Full Calendar 1.6.4 , at the mo...

One of the first things I do when creating a new application is enabling the feedback mechanism in combination with Team Development. C...

Lets see how creating a new Database application works in APEX 5.0 and what was changed compared to APEX 4.2. In the Application Builder...

Now that APEX 5.0 EA  is out, it's time to do a deep dive in the new features of this early adopter (EA) release. Overall this new v...

APEX 5.0 early adopter is about to be released in the public. Requesting a workspace is not working yet at the time of writing this post,...

I created a small mobile APEX app for my football team where they can upload pictures to the app. Sometimes saving the picture worked, ...

I found it very interesting to read  Tom Kyte's New Year resolutions for 2014 . "Learn something new about Oracle almost every ...

There're still people just starting with APEX, so here's a quick post which might help them. On apex.oracle.com there's a nic...

In the last days (and weeks) Oracle has been updating many of the tools a typical APEX Developer uses day-in-day-out. Here's a graphic...

When updating my OS X to Mavericks, the Mail app started to behave differently for my GMail (Google Apps) accounts. Whenever I moved a mes...

A few weeks ago a new Oracle APEX book was released called Oracle APEX 4.2 Reporting  by Vishal Pathak. I was one of the reviewers of ...

A new patch set of Oracle Application Express (APEX) is available for download , the latest version of APEX is now 4.2.3.00.08. As we are ...

The default Mobile Theme (50) in APEX renders just fine in Safari. It uses the full height of my iPhone 5, but when I added the app to my Ho...

I really like the Flot Pie Chart plugin that came with the APEX sample applications (see this blog post in which apps this plugin is used)...

Now that Oracle Database 12c is available I upgraded my VM to try it out. The installation went very smooth and I was up-and-running in no ...