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Recently I switched over from Roboform to Bitwarden as my passwordvault. The main advantages why I did this: I use a vaultwarden docker image on my DS420j NAS Vaultwarden is completely free I can use the standard Bitwarden clients (Desktop and Browser extensions) I can share my passwords between all my laptops (Mac OS, Linux … Read more
When preparing for my sessions this year on OpenTelemtrey within Oracle APEX I came across a couple of contributions: Dominik H on the Oracle forum: https://forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/post/opentelemetry-in-apex-24-2-2174 Steve Muench (Oracle) replied on this by pointing out a japanese website:https://apexugj.blogspot.com/2025/01/apex242-new-feature-opentelemetry.html The blog is available in a gazillion languages through Google Translate, that helps a lot. Nevertheless I … Read more
No I do not. There are two solutions: Start the datamodeler by running the ./Datamodeler.app/Content/MacOS/datamodeler.sh This is what I did for a couple of moths. Cumbersome, but it works! I created a .command file in the /Applications folder, so I could double-click that to start the datamodler. The downside of course is that it will … Read more
I love the Font APEX icons. Hundreds of icons free to use in any APEX application. Since it is also present on GitHub (https://oracle.github.io/font-apex/index.html) you can even use them in a non-apex application. I use Google authentication a lot, and always used the fa-google icon on the button that allows such authentication. Without even thinking … Read more
Yes, I advised everyone to use the Universal Theme sample application to build their icons. Its convenient, we can copy all our classes, change the behaviour of the icons and what not. We should all love that, and we do. However, I did found an alternative that has a better response time (the UT app … Read more
It is time for me to start publishing some “old” material. Old material, indeed, however still relevant. I won’t be publishing irrelevant stuff. That seems a wast of my and your time.. Work is busy enough to waste time. The above presentation grew from a knowledge session at SMART4Solutions. The intention was to introduce my … Read more
Date Conference City Title 18 Dec 2023 SPOUG online PLSQL-OO an object oriented approach to table APIs 2 Jun 2023 SIOUG Portoroz Understanding auto-rest (ORDS on steroids) 1 Jun 2023 SIOUG Portoroz APEX Application lifecycle with feature based deployment 3 May 2023 APEX Connect Berlin APEX, PLSQL and RESTful services II: Consuming Secure Services 3 … Read more
I cannot however publish a blog post where our friend Joel is mentioned without reflecting on the relationship I had with him. The first time I met Joel was at the OGH (now NLOUG) conference APEX-World in Zeist. I think it was the last time the conference was held at the Figi Hotel there. I … Read more
My laziest post EVER (all except the last chapter generated by ChatGPT)I marked all incorrect data like this Introduction On the second Tuesday of October, individuals from all corners of the world come together to celebrate Joel Kallman Day, a special occasion dedicated to honoring the memory and accomplishments of a remarkable individual. Joel Kallman, … Read more
How often do I need to generate a password for one of my database users and colleagues? Here is how I do that. function auth_pwgen return varchar2 is l_pos integer; l_pw varchar2(100); l_c varchar2(100) := ‘bcdfghjklmnprstvwz’; –consonants l_v varchar2(100) := ‘aeiou’; –vowels l_a varchar2(100) := l_c || l_v; –both l_s varchar2(100) := ‘!@#$%^&*()’;begin –use three … Read more