APEX 4.0 Feature List

APEX 4.0 comes with tons of new Features, a good summary can be found in the New Feature Description Application.

Oracle Application Express Early Adopter 2 released

After a very successful test phase of APEX 4.0 EA1 over the past weeks Oracle now released EA 2 of APEX 4.0 with a lot of bug fixes and further improvements.

Back from the Beach

After a week enjoying sunny beaches and snorkeling around i’m finally back and will soon answer all your emails as soon as i’m through with them all.

ApexLib comes with a better Error Display Solution, which sometimes can cause troubling behaviour.
When displaying error messages in the notification area the rest of the page is shifted downwards a little. This is no problem most of the time, except in this case:

You got any Questions?

As i was checking my site stats the other day i stumbled across the section “Last search terms” and found there many questions. Obviously people were looking for an answer and somehow landed on this blog.
That, i figured, should be rewarded.

ApexLib runs with APEX 4.0

Just to let you know, ApexLib continues to make Oracle APEX a better product and works with also with APEX 4.0 .

Oracle APEX 4.0, Plugins and a happy new Year

At the end of this year 2009 a lot happened, for me most important maybe the early adopter release of Oracle APEX 4.0 (check it out on http://tryapexnow.com).

Santa Claus is coming…and brings APEX 4.0

These are good news, not only is Santa Claus coming next week, there will also be an early adopter online release of Oracle APEX 4.0!

Enhancing Oracle Application Express Login Page

Working on many different Projects leads to a vast number of workspaces and applications over time.
Looking for a certain application can be time consuming if you don’t remember what the workspace this application belongs to is called.

How to calculate size of a CLOB in Bytes?

Recently i was dealing with a translation problem regarding multibyte characters (cyrillic). They were stored in a NCLOB and were later on moved to a VARCHAR2.
Before moving the data i had to ensure, that there will be enough space in the VARCHAR2 columns which were defined as VARCHAR2(255 BYTE).

ApexLib 2.0 released

It’s finally done !
ApexLib Version 2.0 is released, go over there and download it and enjoy the new functions.

ApexLib uses jQuery

ApexLib 2.0 now uses the latest version of jQuery 1.3.2 .