Oracle : What is APEX ?

Posted by asmaklad in Monday, March 5th 2012 under: Apex, Oracle, PLSQL, SQL, Web Technologies, XML Tags: Access, APEX, Databae, Excel, HTML, javascript, Oracle, PLSQL, SQL, Web

APEX is a great Oracle product, yet some-how is under-rated. Think of APEX for Oracle the same as Access is for Microsoft. It is light-weight-declarative tool to build database applications without much coding. If you embrace this analogy between APEX and Access, then allow me to introduce APEX by comparing it to ACCESS. Tweet

Web Development: Using WURFL to identify the Clients’s device

Posted by asmaklad in Wednesday, April 20th 2011 under: PHP, Web Technologies, XML Tags: devices, HTML, html5, javascript, mobile, technology, Web

Sometimes in web-development, it is needed to identify the connecting device, if it is a mobile phone, a tablet or a normal desktop browser. This is possible by inspecting the HTTP_USER_AGENT parameter -part of the HTTP header- which has some information about the client’s browser, connecting device and operating system. Anyway; the HTTP_USER_AGENT parameter is a mess, [...]

How to publish your Power Point PPT presentation to the web?

Posted by asmaklad in Monday, September 27th 2010 under: Open Office, Productivity Tools, Web Technologies Tags: Creative Commons, HTML, Internet Publishing, License, Macro media flash, Office, OpenOffice, PDF, Power Point, PPT, SWF

I have been trying to publish some of my Power Points to the web for a while now, and I was looking for an easy and straight forward way to Export *.PPT files in to a web-friendly format. In this short article I will explain the steps taken to publish my work to the Internet. [...]