Presentations
Slide decks and associated materials for talks I’ve presented.
2023
APEX 23.2 New Features (presented at AUSOUG Conference Perth, November 2023) – note: credit for the powerpoint slides goes to the APEX team.
Two Years at Oracle: APEX 21.1 through 23.1 (presented at AUSOUG Perth, June 2023)
2021
Add interactive Google Maps to your APEX application video recording, AUSOUG membership required (AUSOUG Webinar Series 2020-2021); view the slides (PDF) here
2019
Your First APEX Plugin (presented at the AUSOUG Connect conference, November 2019)
2018
APEX Data Loading (presented at the AUSOUG Connect conference, November 2018)
2017
One App, Many Clients: Converting an APEX Application to Multi-Tenant (presented at the AUSOUG Connect conference, November 2017)
2016
Why You Should Use TAPIs (presented at the AUSOUG Connect conference, November 2016; shorter version presented at the AUSOUG Perth Monthly Meeting, July 2016)
Why You Should Use SQL Developer (presented at the AUSOUG Connect conference, November 2016; shorter version presented at the AUSOUG Perth Monthly Meeting, July 2016)
2014
Building Maintainable Applications in APEX – presented at the AUSOUG Perth Conference, November 2014. Supplementary materials: Sample TAPI Application
2013
APEX and Virtual Private Database – presented at the Insync Perth Conference, November 2013.
PL/SQL Function Result Cache – presented at the AUSOUG Perth Monthly Meeting, June 2013.
2012
Old Oracle Versions – Top 20 Gotchas – presented at the AUSOUG Perth Conference, October 2012. (Note: correction to slide #44)
A Guided Tour of Alexandria – presented at the AUSOUG Perth Conference, October 2012. Supplementary materials: SQL*Plus demo [xls-demo.sql, alex-demo.sql]
Automate Amazon S3 Storage with Alexandria – presented at the AUSOUG Perth Monthly Meeting, September 2012. Supplementary materials: SQL*Plus demo [alex-demo.sql]
2011
ETL by SQL – presented at the AUSOUG Perth Conference, November 2011. Supplementary materials: SQL*Plus demo [ETL-by-SQL-sqlplus-demo.zip]
2010
APEX Themes and Templates – presented at InSync10 Conference Melbourne, August 2010, and at the AUSOUG Perth Conference, November 2010.
2009
Python and Oracle, Fast – presented at the AUSOUG Perth Conference, November 2009.
2008
APEX Social Networking – presented at the AUSOUG Perth Conference, October 2008. Supplementary materials: sample application “Zample” [f100_zample.zip]