Roels Blog

Yesterday the first ORCLAPEX-NL Meetup was held. Finally. We seemed to be a little behind other locations - but pretty sure we'll catch up quickly! After (a lot of) great pizza - kindly sponsored by smart4apex - and a round of introduction of every attendee, Richard kicked off the meeting by explaining the concept of these kinds of meetups. He also gave a nice review of his first experience of Kscope during Kscope14. The weather was summer like outside - but the real die-hards were listening and discussing inside .... ... where Dick explained the limitations and challenges of developing web applications for smart phones. During the Open Mic Night part of the evening, Steven showed a very nice APEX Web Application developed for mobile devices. The user interface looked very good and the flow was very well thought through. And it uses some very neat features like Local Database Storage and WebWorkers to temporarily storage pictures and send them over the wire when...

Yesterday I attended the first ORCLAPEX-BE Meetup. Very well organised by Dimitri and Roeland. Remarkable fact: I was not the only "foreigner" as around 30 - 40% of the - around 16 - attendees where Dutch! So Meetups can even easily cross borders ... So after some initial socialising....  ... ... Roeland explained the concept of these kind of meetups. In the next hour Dimitri went over all the great new features of APEX5, like Page Designer, Modal Pages, Syntax Highlighter etc. Then there was plenty of pizza (and more socialising). And then I went over the smaller - but nevertheless cool - features of APEX5 (as described in earlier blogposts). Alas I had to leave after my presentation - looking at an almost 3 hour drive back home. But I know that the last 20 minutes or so where filled with two "Open Mic Night"-style demo's. I think all attendees had a good time. I really like the concept: relaxed networking, some pre...