Oracle Application Express Developer Competition
It’s old news, but there’s an APEX Developer competition being run by the OTN here.
The first place prize is really aimed at US developers – throw in an airfare and accomodation and I might be interested.
More interesting is the Application Development Guidelines which presumably is an Oracle internal document being published since I can’t find any other reference on the mighty google. I’ve always followed the created_on/by/updated_on/by and pk/ak guidelines but I’ve generally used sequences and controlled the created_on/updated_on through the application – it’s nice to see an alternative that I will certainly be using in future applications.
What I won’t be using is the “FLEX” columns. One thing I love about APEX is that it brings the application and database together so beautifully. Flexible columns is just a way of saying that we might want to make application changes without making database changes – that’s lazy, not scalable, and definitely not good practice.
