Oracle Forms – Present & Future
Of the developer tools that Oracle has delivered over the years, Forms is perhaps the most mature tool of all and has been used by thousands of developers all over the world.
However, the current situation faced by many Forms developers is quite problematic. One of the main reasons is that Oracle has adopted JDeveloper as [...]
Update on the Openbravo ERP project
Unfortunately, the ERP project that was scheduled to be rolled out in a major institution in Algeria was cancelled at the last minute (2 days before the roll out). No reasons were given for the cancellation but from the news I got, there was a shakeup at the highest level.
This is not unusual with Algerian [...]
Oracle Apex (HTMLDB) 2.2
I am back now at testing HTMLDB 2.2 after last year’s tutorial. At any rate, there a number of new features with the tool although it is still missing some very obvious ones.
The most striking one is the lack of stacked, tabbed canvases. When you deal with master-detail forms, it is almost the case that [...]
Account management tools
Lotus notes along with a domino server can be used as a powerful platform for managing access and accounts within an entreprise.
However, with the advent of wiki collaboration tools such as jotspot (www.jotspot.com), there is a real possibility of getting the same fonctionnalities implemented on a jostpost server appliance.
Lately, I have been toying with this [...]
Web 2.0 3.0 and on: the chinese and indian future for all of us
Lately, I have come across some very interesting websites, the so called web 2.o generation, with some of them originating in india. A typical example is zoho crm, which I am now testing for my own use and can already say it is an impressive piece of work.
This brings me to the latest statement [...]
Jotspot wiki and its relation to Lotus Notes
A couple of weeks ago, I signed up with www.jotspot.com because I was interested in using a wiki to manage my daily IT chores.
Jotspot was highly praised by several columnists and since there was a free plan, I started using it right away to manage the daily calls (actually the emails I receive on my [...]
Openbravo training slides
I posted some powerpoint slides on slideshare.net
Please look under tag: openbravo or blidainfo.com
For the time being, I made available the basic stuff related to the procurement and sales modules.
In preparation are those related to the finance, material and business partners modules.
Hope those involved with Openbravo will find them useful.
ERP implementations
For the last 4 months, I have been deeply involved with an ERP implementation.
It started with a request for a billing system that a large customer wanted to have.
After I researched the market and given that there was a justification for an open source solution, I selected the leading packages ERP5, Compiere, OfBiz and Openbravo.
A [...]
Chili at 5:00 in the morning
Unbelievable, but this is a first for me. Today, we had a pot luck at work and I had chili at 5:00 in the morning. Very strange but my stomach is still not saying anything
Anyway, that was a really good way of celebrating the coming of spring and the food was excellent with [...]
During the course of writing the HTMLDB (oracle ap…
During the course of writing the HTMLDB (oracle applications express-APEX- a.k.a TAKFAH) tutorial, I was confronted to the case of the POST-CHANGE trigger (Forms-like) in APEX.
The question was already asked by a user on OTN and I went through an implementation using an idea borrowed from Carl Backstrom.
Here is the problem: you create a report [...]
