orclapex Introducing APEX Bootstrap 4 (Theme) UPDATE: This theme is deprecated. For the past few weeks we've been working on something new. I'm excited to release the first version of a new APEX Theme. Still alpha, not production ready :) * See Demo [https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=73792:1] * See
orclapex Material APEX Part 2: The Grid Most of the components displayed in APEX are built on a grid*, making it one of the most important aspect to understand about a theme. *Although it's possible to escape grid support in some cases via your page template display points. A grid is composed of * Containers * Rows
orclapex Material APEX Part 1: 2015 Status & Direction I am starting a series of blog posts on how to use Material APEX, a theme based on Material Design guidelines. Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to comment, retweet and report bugs. I've been overwhelmed with positive feedback and it’s
insum Moving a 40+ people dev team to Slack We at Insum [http://insum.ca/] have been through rapid growth in the past few years. Lately, one thing that struck me is how many emails I could receive in a single day of absence. I'm a huge fan of living off-grid. The good thing is that I
orclapex Customizing Theme Roller I've had the chance to spend time with Shakeeb Rahman [https://twitter.com/shakeeb] at Kscope15 and talk about some of the new APEX UI features. You've all seen it, but here's what Theme Roller looks like as of APEX 5.0.1.00.
orclapex Simple Responsive Table Tweak APEX is excellent at reporting stuff, but sometimes in a small screen reports are hard to read: Words are wrapping. You have to scroll horizontally. It's just awkward. Here's a dead simple CSS tweak that will make your reports mobile-friendly: 1- Add the class .table-responsive to
oracle Oracle Responsive Email Templates Update: This project is no longer maintained. Demo: https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=16371 Source: https://github.com/vincentmorneau/oracle-rwd-email-template-api Update: 1.1.0 * Templates are now parameterized * More code refactoring 1.0.0 * Decoupled the API from the send mail feature. Now returns a CLOB value.
orclapex Reinventing APEX Reporting It's all about changing your reporting state of mind. I used to automatically associate reporting to something like this: You know the drill, a few HTML tags such as <table>, <tr>, <th>, <td>, etc. I wish we could make standard
orclapex APEX Theme Boilerplate UPDATED 2017-06-20: Templates were revisited for APEX 5.1 I love building new APEX themes from scratch. Don't get me wrong, I love the new Universal Theme as well: it's an inspiring user interface that I'll be using a lot in the years to
orclapex APEX 5.0 Dual Screen Trick I am playing a lot with APEX 5 these days, especially building a new theme called Material Design for APEX [https://twitter.com/vincentmorneau/status/577689864524693504]. I am amazed by some of the productivity enhancements it offers, but this particular one is just too good not to share. The following
gulp APEX, Sass & Sourcemaps integration Update April-23-2016: Deprecated this package in favor of APEX Nitro [https://github.com/OraOpenSource/apex-nitro/]. This post is a follow-up to my previous post on how to integrate Gulp to your APEX workflow [https://vmorneau.me/basic-gulpfile/]. This time we'll dig into an advanced Gulpfile that includes Sass
grunt Basic Gulp with APEX Update April-23-2016: Deprecated this package in favor of APEX Nitro [https://github.com/OraOpenSource/apex-nitro/]. Update Feb-28-2015: Added image optimization to the Gulpfile. Note: I have given a more interactive presentation in January 2015 at @InsumSolutions [https://twitter.com/InsumSolutions] office about how to integrate Gulp in your APEX workfow.
blog My First Blog Post I have bought this domain in October, and here I am posting in Febuary, at last! This [http://architects.dzone.com/articles/why-programmers-should-have] made me decide to throw myself in the blogging community. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For starters, here's a little background on me. I have been working as a
