I am just back from KScope14 in Seattle, WA – what a week. No “Low-T” here!

APEX 5.0 Early Adopter 2 was featured on Sunday by the Oracle APEX team, after which I was able to complete prep for my APEX Interactive Reports, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Revisited.  I demoed APEX 5 IR new features, including multiple IRs on a single page with links between those reports – we now have a simple way to quickly generate dashboard-like layouts.  The big news with IRs in APEX 5 is Change – there is a new scheme of classes and Id’s for the IR elements – the old apexir_* set are gone.  There is completely new jQuery widget that controls IRs – sooooo… any custom code – dynamic actions, plugins, javascript, whatever – that does not use the standard API’s will need to be refactored.  I’ll be posting more in APEX 5 Interactive Reports in the coming week.

There were many highlights – APEX 5, great sessions, an awesome party at EMP, great people.  A standout for me was seeing Mike Riley there, smiling, and receive the ODTUG Volunteer of the Year Award – Congratulations Mike!  To read more about Mike Riley, and his journey in life and with ODTUG, see the ODTUG Technical Journal Corner.Volunteer Spotlight by John King.

While there check out two articles on SQL Developer – one by Jeff Smith, on making your job easier with SQL Developer, and one from Galo Balda, Using SQL Developer to Work With GitHub.  Great stuff, by two great people.