APEX OOW 2016 Meetup

Each year the Oracle APEX community gets together at Oracle Open World (OOW) to have a few beers and catch up. This is a great informal event and its your chance to network with a lot of people in the APEX community and meet some of the gurus and members of the core APEX development team.

We'll be having the annual APEX OOW Meetup at Johnny Foleys on Tuesday September 20th at 7:30 onwards. Please let us know if you're coming by signing up on the Meetup for this event.

If it's your first time attending, we're in the basement and there will be dueling piano's. Show up early as it gets packed pretty!

243 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102


Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Martin

ODTUG Leadership Program

ODTUG has long been recognized as an outstanding source for the technical content Oracle professionals desire, but that’s only half of the story. We’re providing our members with yet another avenue to add to their skills and increase their value to their employer or client. ODTUG is pleased to open enrolment for the fourth class of the ODTUG Leadership Program

I've had the opportunity to work with some of the classes and individuals from the Leadership Program and have heard some amazing stories on how this program changed peoples lives and carriers!

If you, or someone you know, is interested I encourage you to submit an application. Applications must be submitted by August 14th so hurry up!

APEX and the Nest Thermostat

At ODTUG Kscope 15 last year I gave a presentation about APEX plugins. During the presentation I built a plugin from scratch to control my Nest Thermostat. Everything went well until I did a live demo connecting the APEX plugin with my home Nest. I forgot to enable a service and unfortunately the demo didn't work.

I recently gave a talk to the Vancouver Oracle User Group on APEX and the Future of Enterprise Development. During this presentation I pre-recorded a video of APEX controlling my home Nest to highlight that APEX can work with the Internet of Things (IoT).

There has been some interest to see this in action so I have included a copy of the video below. On the right is a Nest plugin that I wrote for APEX, the left is the Nest app on an Android tablet, and in the center is the actual Nest.

Eh?PEX Unofficial Tour

This year I will be taking some trips across Canada and have been given the opportunity to speak in various cities. Thus the unofficial Eh? PEX tour.

Here are the different cities and links to each event:

• 12-Jan GTA/Toronto APEX Meetup
• Open Source and APEX
• Q&A (bring your Oracle & APEX questions)
• 21-Jan Calgary Oracle User Group
• Open Source Oracle: Tools That Make My Life Easier
• 4-Feb Vancouver Oracle User Group
• APEX and the Future of Enterprise Development

Special thanks to Insum Solutions for helping make this all possible.

For those located in Calgary we have our monthly YYC APEX Meetup group.

ClariFit From/To Date Picker Plug-in Moved to OraOpenSource

This article is for people looking for help with the ClariFit From/To Date Picker.

I'm currently in the process of updating some of the plugins I created for ClariFit to support APEX 5.0. As part of these changes some additional things are happening, mainly listing the plugins in the new apex.world site and moving the plugins ownership over to OraOpenSource.

The first plugin that has been moved/updated is the ClariFit From/To Date Picker. The plugin is now called OraOpenSource From/To Date Picker and is hosted here. To help with backwards compatibility the plugin's internal name has remained the same. This means that upgrades will be seamless.

Please post all bugs and enhancement requests on the project's issue page.


The next plugin that will be updated is the ClariFit Dialog (to be called OraOpenSource Dialog). It is currently being tested and will be officially released pending any major bugs. If you'd like any other ClariFit plugins updated to APEX 5.0 please leave a comment and I'll look into it.