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NEW Pinch and Zoom (like Instagram)

A few weeks ago I published a blog post Pinch and Zoom like Instagram. Turns out I didn't properly test on iOS and the effect was flaky. Here is simpler and more efficient solution using only native JavaScript, no library involved like Hammer.js in my first blog post. Try

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Rich animations for your APEX app

Very soon, a project that I've been working on over the past 2 years will go LIVE. It's a very special APEX app designed entirely for public use. That means anyone in the world will be able to use it. For free. No login required! The demographics that will use

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Fetch API for Oracle APEX - Part 3: Security SIMPLIFIED

Fetch API series: Part 1: Basic UsagePart 2: Securing EndpointsPart 3: Security SIMPLIFIEDIn my last blog post, I explained how to make the Fetch API work against an APEX session using OAuth. I was quite proud of the solution, but turns out there is a better way. Instead of using

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Fetch API for Oracle APEX - Part 2: Securing Endpoints

Fetch API series: Part 1: Basic UsagePart 2: Securing EndpointsPart 3: Security SIMPLIFIEDThis is a follow-up to my previous blog post: Using the Fetch API in Oracle APEX. In that post, I explained how to fetch data from an ORDS endpoint and display it as a regular APEX template (example

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Fetch API for Oracle APEX - Part 1: Basic Usage

Fetch API series: Part 1: Basic UsagePart 2: Securing EndpointsPart 3: Security SIMPLIFIEDFetch is a JavaScript API native to all browsers that allows you to make a request to a URL. That request returns a response, which you can then use any way you want. Without passing any option to

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Pinch and Zoom like Instagram

As you scroll down Instagram or any other social media on your phone, you browse through countless pictures. Some of them are interesting enough that you want to look closer, given the size of the small screen. It's become intuitive for most people to "pinch" an image to activate a

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APEX as a PWA: The Complete Guide

Covered Features Installing the APEX app on a mobile device Making the APEX app available offline Syncing offline requests when getting back online Sending push notifications Documentation Part 1: Introducing Progressive Web Apps Part 2: Setup and Development Tips Part 3: JavaScript Recap Part 4: Installing an APEX App into

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How to Avoid a JavaScript Mess

At Kscope18, I presented How to Avoid a JavaScript Mess at the #LetsWreckThisTogether talks. Here it is, turned into a blog post. We all want to write clean code. I was attending Mike Hichwa's session at Kscope18's Sunday symposium, and he revealed numbers about language usage within the frameworks we

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Using Font Awesome 5 Pro

It's inevitable that APEX will update the icon libraries in the next release. I expect these two: - From Font Awesome 4 to Font Awesome 5 Free - From Font APEX to Font APEX HD Because APEX is pretty much redistributing Font Awesome, it has to use the free version.

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JavaScript async/await in APEX

The following technique will change the way we write JavaScript very soon. If you're into JavaScript, you're gonna want to understand async/await. Prerequisites JavaScript Promises were introduced to solve many JavaScript problems such as the callback hell. async/await builds on top of Promises to provide an easier handling

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JavaScript Promises in APEX

As I was reading the APEX 5.1 API documentation the other day, I noticed something pretty interesting under the apex.server namespace. apex.server.process and apex.server.plugin are now returning JavaScript Promises. apex.server.plugin( pAjaxIdentifier, pData, pOptions ) → Promise apex.server.process( pName, pData, pOptions ) → Promise What

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Using APEX Javascript Events

Dynamic actions are great, but sometimes I just want to code Javascript by hand in my code editor. In the official APEX documentation, very little is said about APEX Javascript events. All we know is that apexbeforerefresh and apexafterrefresh exist, but how can we use them? And are there more

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Basic Gulp with APEX

Update April-23-2016: Deprecated this package in favor of 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 office about how to integrate Gulp in your APEX workfow. Visit my Github repo for the source code. I