ORCLAPEX NYC Meetup - August 2015

Welcome to ORLCAPEX NYC's August 2015 meetup! This meetup will consist of 4 lightning talks that will be around 20 minutes each. And yes, we'll have a countdown timer this time! Here's a look at the agenda:

Marc Sewtz - Configuring PDF printing with APEX 5.0 and ORDS: This session will show you how to configure PDF printing using APEX 5.0 and ORDS and how this compares to using BI Publisher or Apache FOP. We’ll look at printing Interactive Reports and Classic Reports, as well as producing PDFs using the APEX print APIs and attaching generated PDF reports to emails send from within your APEX application.

Tim Chambers - The inner workings of our new APEX 5 JS widgets: APEX 5 and Universal Theme have considerable Javascript dedicated to improving the UX of your apps. This presentation will cover some of this front-end logic from a technical standpoint, to elucidate the kinds of calculations that occur on page load and on page runtime.

Patrick Maniraho - Advanced Data Loading Features: Oracle Application Express has had a "data loading" feature since version 4.1. Subsequent releases have added features to improve the data loading experience and performance. Some of these improvements include column name aliases (which can be used to overcome the 45 columns limit), the ability to map more than one spreadsheet column into one table column, advanced transformation rules, the ability to skip some steps (useful for larger set of records), better management of concurrency, and improved error handling. In this session, we will walk through some examples to highlight these advanced features and tricks that can be used to improve the usability and performance of data loading.

Dan McGhan - Relational to JSON in Oracle Database: There’s no shortage of options when it comes generating JSON from relational data in Oracle Database. In this session I’ll introduce you to several options, from lower level PL/SQL based solutions like PL/JSON and APEX_JSON to higher level solutions that do more than just generate and parse JSON like Oracle REST Data Services and Node.js with the Oracle Database driver.

Note: You must RSVP for this event and seats are limited. Please RSVP with your full name and bring matching ID for security. Please do not RSVP if you are unsure that you will be able to attend. If you do RSVP and are no longer able to attend please change your status so that someone on the waiting list may take your place.