Roels Blog

3 days - 3 cities - 6 presentations (4 different ones) My tour started on Monday afternoon when I left my house around 1.30PM to get on the bus to the train station. The 2PM train left exactly on time for the Amsterdam airport. I arrived at Schiphol around 3:30PM, perfectly on time to catch the 5PM flight to Copenhagen. The flight to Copenhagen was very uneventful. From the airport I took the train / metro into the city. I already received an email message from one of my co-travellers, Martin Widlake, who was sitting al alone in a bar downtown. The poor guy. So I rescued him and was briefly after that joined by Sten Vesterli - another ACE Director from the organising country. After just one beer we head over to the restaurant where we met the rest of the board of the Danish Oracle User Group and the other two co-travellers, John King and Ludovico Caldera, for a very nice dinner. As the city was crowded due to another - slightly larger - conference all hotel rooms were either booke...

It just isn't fair. If you install a Packaged Application - and you should because there is a lot to learn from those apps - in your APEX Workspace they all have a cool looking icon. And your own applications, just show up with two characters in a (random?) coloured box. Why can't I have a nice looking icon for my application? In APEX 5.1 you can! Upload an image as a Static Application File . According to the help it should by 64 x 64 pixels, but I noticed it can be larger as well. It should be square though to show up nicely. Don't put it in a (sub)directory, it should be placed in the 'root' folder. Then edit the Application Definition (either via Shared Components > Application Definition Attributes or by clicking on the "Edit Application Attributes" on the Application Builder home screen. Then scroll down until you see the "Icon File Name" property. Enter the name of the uploaded file there - but don't reference #APP_...

For the third time in a row I'll be running for ODTUG's Board of Directors. But after ending as a runner up twice, I am sure I'm going to make it this time! But not without your help! My campaign statement this year is: I have been attending and presenting at Kscope conferences since 2007. This not only resulted in a vast amount of knowledge, but also - and even more important - a huge number of friends from all over the globe.  I want to see ODTUG grow and spread this community feeling even more!  My experience as an attendee, presenter and content lead has provided the basic foundation to be a director. Next to that, my personality and (global) network will be beneficial to the whole board and organization.  Since March I have served on the Board of Directors in a limited term for a Director who stepped down due to a career change. This has allowed me to have unique insight of all the things that are going on in and around the ODTUG organization. As the...