14Apr
By: Steven Feuerstein On: April 14, 2021 In: APEX Developer Solutions, Feuertips Comments: 0

A developer takes out "insurance" when they write code to "make sure" or "just in case". This can be unnecessary & unproductive. See examples.

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09Apr
By: Marc Ruel On: April 9, 2021 In: Instant Tips Comments: 0

Anton and Hayden take you through how to get APEX to tell you which item has been changed to make sure you're saving what you should.

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08Apr
By: Marc Ruel On: April 8, 2021 In: Insum Insider Comments: 0

Monty and Michelle chat with Brad Cardinal, Chief Technology Officer at Clay Lacy Aviation about how APEX allows their applications to take flight.

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07Apr
By: Steven Feuerstein On: April 7, 2021 In: APEX Developer Solutions, Feuertips Comments: 4

PL/SQL packages are great! But there is one package feature you shouldn’t use: Initialization. Your first inclination should be to avoid it. Steven Feuerstein explains why.

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02Apr
By: Marc Ruel On: April 2, 2021 In: Instant Tips Comments: 0

Jorge Rimblas, the master of Oracle APEX Classic Reports, shows us how to use a variety of template options to turn a classic report into a Alert Region that provides a useful confirmation message.

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26Mar
By: Anton Nielsen On: March 26, 2021 In: APEX Developer Solutions, Instant Tips Comments: 0

The Automatic Time Zone setting in APEX presents some significant challenges. Anton adresses the issues by bypassing this feature with an implementation of his own.

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25Mar
By: Marc Ruel On: March 25, 2021 In: Insum Insider Comments: 0

Scott Spendolini joins Monty and Michelle to chat about his amazing journey of the past year, heading an Oracle COVID19 app dev team

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24Mar
By: Steven Feuerstein On: March 24, 2021 In: APEX Developer Solutions, Feuertips Comments: 0

Steven discusses when it makes sense to choose a string-indexed associative array (one of the three types of PL/SQL collections)

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19Mar
By: Marc Ruel On: March 19, 2021 In: Instant Tips Comments: 0

With declarative support built into Oracle APEX, markdown ensures a consistent look and feel, and removes cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

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15Mar
By: Steven Feuerstein On: March 15, 2021 In: APEX Developer Solutions, Feuertips Comments: 0

Lazy can be a good developer characteristic or a terrible one depending on how and when applied. Steven and Marlyn look at examples of each.

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