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(You can read my impression of the first day here ) After a short but good night sleep and an excellent breakfast, Mike Hichwa delivered his second keynote " RAD Challenge: Build a Real World application in 60 minutes ”. Although he suffered from connection issues, Mike managed to wow the audience showing the new packaged app "Quick SQL” and  the new (currently Cloud-only) “Blueprint” option to create a new application. As JSON is not code (but just a collection of value-attribute pairs), it was really a  no-code showcase! Then it was parallel session time again and I went to see how Christian Rokitta would "Bootstrapify Universal Theme” . The message is: You don’t have to unsubscribe from the Universal Theme (and please don’t!) to create an application that looks totally different from the “regular” APEX applications. Then I had to deliver my second presentation “ Docker for Dummies ”. It was aimed at people who might have heard of Docker but really h

Last week the SS Rotterdam was the beautiful location of the largest gathering of APEX Developers worldwide. With around 380 (!) attendees a new high was set. And they came from all over the world : I spotted people from The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Germany, Denmark, Norway, UK, Ireland and the USA. And I even might have missed one or two …. The event started with a presentation by the “father of APEX”, Mike Hichwa, talking about " Oracle APEX Past, Present and Future ”. Of course everyone is curious what the APEX future might bring: Friendly URL’s, automated testing, more JSON, concurrent APEX versions, third party Oauth 2 authentication (think Facebook, Google), APEX app diff and more, a lot more, REST capabilities. And now we have to wait for APEX 5.2 … and that might take a while!  After this keynote, the conference split up in three tracks. After the coffee break I returned to to big theatre where Geertjan Wielenga talked about &qu