Roels Blog

It has been a while, but this year AMIS and SMART4APEX are organizing an ODTUG KScope Preview event together. This event will be held on Thursday, June 12th at the AMIS offices in Nieuwegein. This year the annual ODTUG - Oracle Developer Tools User Group - event takes place in Seattle, from June 22 to 26. Alas not everyone has the chance to join this event. And therefore AMIS and SMART4APEX have joined forces and offer the opportunity to attend some of KScope’s presentations. A number of presenters from Europe will run a final try out of their presentations during this preview event. During the event you will have the choice of three presentations in three streams: APEX, Database Development and ADF.Click on the agenda for the list of sessions and their abstracts. To make sure there's enough place (and food ! and drinks !) for everyone : Click here to register . And, yes, we are well aware the World Championships are starting that very same night. But luckily that ...

Last Saturday afternoon I arrived back home and after two nights of (more or less) sleep, this morning I headed for the airport again to fly to Stockholm for my current project. So while sitting in my hotel room, I (finally) have some time to blog about last weeks Kscope11.... As always, this Kscope was packed with great sessions too. After Sundays symposium, complete filled by the APEX Development Team - at least for the track I was most interested in - Monday started off with " Web services for the REST of us " by Jason Straub. Jason showed how easy it is in APEX to consume (for instance) Yahoo web services and how to use APEX as a front end for Amazon's cloud storage. If you ever have trouble getting the XPath expression right, you might consider using Altova XMLSpy . This tool (not free though!) can be used for determining the the XMLPath expression, just by clicking on the node you're interested in. And when debugging web services can be quite cumbersome, take ...

For the upcoming KScope, Marco Gralike and myself are working on a revamped version of the XFILES application Carl Backstrom and Mark Drake presented 3 years ago during OOW. Using the techniques they presented and the current state of the art (APEX 4), we created a database centric Version Control system for APEX...built in APEX and XML-DB. For a (very brief) preview and some background information, take a look at Marco's blog . For those who can't make it to Long Beach, we will do a preview session on June 14, at the AMIS office in Nieuwegein (The Netherlands, that is).