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XFiles – An APEX Community Effort
Nov 9th
Just so you know, there is an APEX demo app. out there that never has seen the light. The demo application based on Mark Drake’s (Sr. Product Manager Oracle XMLDB) XFiles xmldb demo application build with Javascript, Java & PL/SQL. Carl Backstrom helpt Mark in 2008 to rebuild the same demo app. into an APEX look and feel demo application. Carl wanted to clean up the code but never came around to it… I recieved the code from Mark, after a year has passed after Carl’s tragic death, and I am trying to get it out there (if applicable on http://apex.oracle.com). The XFiles demo application is a lightweight Content Management System that demonstrates all the things possible with Oracle XMLDB functionality.
The installation dependancies have been almost now figured out by me and I have finally something to show.
OOW 2009: APEX 4.0 – a source of inspiration
Oct 12th
This article is about APEX – some of my initial impressions from the pending (deep into 2010) APEX 4.0 release. And the title is in no way meant to be ironic, contrary perhaps to popular belief. Yesterday I saw a presentation/demonstration by Mike Hichwa and David Peake from the APEX team and it provided me a with a number of new and useful insights. And I want to state clearly: I was impressed by some of the information about and demonstration of APEX.
The Enterprise Cloud (for Application Development)
I was at JavaOne earlier this year and one Sun’s proud announcements there was ‘application development in the cloud’ with Zembly. And while that is nice, it really is a first attempt that does not even come close at what APEX has been doing for quite some time now: provide a cloud based shared development environment, centrally managed and fully accessible through a browser.
DBA 2.0 – how options are really not optional or: “the infinite database”
Sep 22nd
After Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and Wife 2.0, Oracle introduces the term DBA 2.0. It seems to refer to the DBA of the very near future. The one who can rely on a formidable pal hiding inside the database and taking on many of the boring, repeating tasks as well as advising on some of the tougher challenges when it comes to managing the database. Manageability is one of the focus areas for Oracle in the marketing strategy for the database as well as in the development budget allocation. Lots of time and energy are invested in making the database more manageable and striking the optimal balance between automated management and human decision making.
DBA 2.0 is perhaps also the guy about whom Mark Townsend,Vice President Product Management for Server Technologies, said: "to really screw a system up, you have to be a DBA!". To which he added:
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