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The new version of APEX is available for testing by early adopters.
Use this link to request a workspace as hosted environment:
I will post about my first impressions soon.
=;-)

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There’s a new listener EA released today go grab it and try out.  There’s 2 real changes.  First the MIME_TYPE on file uploads is fixed. 
 The second is a result of sitting down at RMOUG last week and talking over the excel parsing with Scott.   That conversation resulted in a few new knobs to change some [...]

Boneist just informed me that links from my site to my Oracle ACE profile were linking through to Steven Feuerstein’s profile.
Here’s the link I’ve always used for this profile. It’s been on my blog, website and forum for years and worked just fine when I’ve clicked the links in the past.
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=19297:4:3351497719856466::NO:4:P4_ID:43
If you click [...]

I’ve been working on a pretty substantial APEX application with Jason Straub and Sharon Kennedy for the last x months (where x > estimated time). It will likely be an APEX Packaged application which consists of the APEX Application, DDL scripts for all schema objects, and install scripts for ~20 image / JavaScript / CSS [...]

I’ve been gradually building out a logging utility for PL/SQL over the last year or so. It’s been a huge help on some complicated projects, especially in APEX Applications with a lot of AJAX. I’m sure most people reading this have been stuck on a problem, created a logging table, and sprinkled a [...]

How to upload photographs on you mobile phone with an Apex application? The question was asked to me this morning.
At our company we all drive a company car. To invoice the fuel of our foreign trips we have to invoice this at the leasing company. How easy would it be to declare it during [...]
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We just pushed the next EA for the Application Express Listener. There’s a few base bugs fixes in this like the file upload issue people on the forums posted about. The other significant bug fixed is when there’s multiple listeners in one webserver. The listener will now check the following location in this order for [...]

Joel Kallman lists steps to make apex.oracle.com run faster, like turning on the KeepAlive setting in Oracle HTTP Server, reducing the open window for Web crawlers in robots.txt, replacing a Database Access Descriptor with an httpd.conf rewrite rule and increasing file system caching and memory size. Read the details at Making apex.oracle.com fast (again).
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iAdvise organiseert naar jaarlijkse gewoonte een (gratis) Seminarie over Oracle Application Express.
De uitnodiging is als volgt:
“Stap voor stap zullen we aantonen hoe je op een snelle en eenvoudige manier veilige en mooi ogende data-driven webtoepassingen bouwt en uitrolt, en dit allemaal zonder zware architectuur en zonder lange leertrajecten. Om dit alles te staven, kan [...]

What to do if "My Oracle Support" is down
If the My Oracle Support portal is unavailable and you need to log an SR you can call the 800# number (http://www.oracle.com/support/contact.html) and the SR will be logged for you and routed to the appropriate team.

Nice URL in a Public Facing Oracle APEX Application
The Oracle APEX URL [...]