My first (real) article in print

I just received the latest version of OGH Visie - the magazine of the Dutch Oracle Usergroup. As always there are a lot of interesting articles, but this one in particular attracted my attention: "APEX 3.2 now with Oracle Forms to APEX conversion...". Guess who wrote it... ;-)
For all non subscribers: The magazine is available for download from the OGH website. Those who can't read Dutch have to wait for an upcoming release of Oracle Scene - just today I submitted the English version to the editor. Hope they'll publish it also!

Comments

Monty Latiolais said…

Roel,

Congrats on your article...the first of many, I hope.

Monty

6:13 pm

PdV said…

Congrats!

Now I have to start reading the OGH magazine too.

6:41 pm

Louis-Guillaume said…

Good news!

7:03 pm

Patrick Wolf said…

Congratulation!

Patrick

2:38 pm

Johannes de Jong said…

Hi Roel,

Your article was printed out here at work all the Forms guys read it with interest. Looks like you got a few of our Oracle Forms programmers over to our (the Apex crowd) side. Thanks for that 

Great article.

Johannes

7:55 am

Dan McGhan said…

Roel,

I'm running a little behind on my blog reading... Congratulations!

Regards,
Dan

2:42 am

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