iAdvise organises a free seminar about Mobile Business Development on 4(Antwerp, Belgium) and 6(Breda, The Netherlands) June.
In this seminar we will discuss Mobile Development and Usability(UX – User Experience) in Mobile Development.
But we also compare different solutions, give pros and cons about: APEX Mobile, ADF Mobile and Tabris.
Of course we will also show you best practices, problems and solutions,…
More information(Dutch): http://www.iadvise.eu/seminars
On May 12 iAdvise hosted the “APEX and mobile seminar”.
With a turnout of more than 50 customers and interested developers, it indicates that mobile development is a real hype and the demand for mobile applications is rising.
This was the starting point for Stijn who started with an overview of the current situation and evolution of mobile applications.
It became clear that as a developer you can’t ignore mobile devices in the future.
He continued with explaining the challenges in mobile development and which guidelines and strategies could help in choosing the right technology for mobile applications.
Bart took the word and focused on developing web application for mobile devices using APEX.
By combining APEX with JQuery Mobile, HTML5 and CSS3, one could develop a mobile web application rather fast and simple.
Also implementing specific mobile behaviour(eg. “swiping”) and generating extra content on a tablet are rather simple using APEX.
After Bart, Jan showed a demo about the opportunities on offering APEX applications to users as a native app.
This sounds rather strange, but is possible. He had worked out a demo using PhoneGap, a javascript library which create the communication between a web application and the API of the mobile device.
The demo showed how the APEX application from the other demos was wrapped in a native app.
This makes it possible to add a new contact in the contact list of Jan’s IPhone.
After the demos, they gaves us a look at the future of mobile development with APEX, what we could expect in APEX 4.2 and how PhoneGap will take its place in this future.
At the end Johan Byl of Hestia showed us some points which had to be taken in mind when using mobile devices in a company.
This was also very interesting for application developers.
When developing applications, they’re not always keeping in mind that there will be a maintenance phase.
Eg. The support for the application will be allright, but what about the devices itself?
How will we get the application on all the mobile devices of our company?
Can everybody connect to the company network with his or her device?
Or should we prepare a different infrastructure/security?
These and a lot of other questions were explained and answered by Johan and showed us there are a lot of things we have to think over again before putting a mobile application in production.
At the end, a lucky attendee won an IPad3.
For him, iAdvise and regarding the positive feedback for others as well, it was a succesful seminar.
If you missed this seminar, there will another one at the office of our dutch colleagues in Breda, The Netherlands on May 24 2012.
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iAdvise organises a seminar on Forms modernization.
During this seminar we will show you how you can modernize your Oracle Forms applications, give it a rich look and feel, and adopt the latest technologies without throwing away years of investment in Oracle Forms.
We will show you how you can combine the power of an Oracle Forms application with functionality from external application (javabeans, pluggable java components, webservices,…) and how you can give a Forms application a modern “look and feel”.
Also part of this seminar is an overview of the new features in the latest Oracle Forms release(11g)
When: June 1, 2010
Where: iAdvise office, Kontich
Language: Dutch
End of this month we organize together with Oracle Belgium our annual seminar on Apex.
For more then 3 years we are doing projects with Oracle Application Express and want to share our knowledge and our experience with the Oracle community.
In the first part of the seminar we will give first a small introduction on the product, its positioning and architecture. Next we will give an overview of the different kind of applications you can build with Apex from internet- over extranet- to intranet or back-office applications. Where possible we will refer to applications we already realized.
After a break we will explain our Apex Development Approach. This is a very pragmatic approach and can be considered as an assemblage of standards, guidelines, tips, standard solutions and custom-developed tools (like xTra4o, QA, …).
In between we will give a demo of the most important new features of the latest version Apex 3.1.
All presentations will be in Dutch. Belgium customers that want to join the seminar, can subscribe here.
Apex Seminar
We, at iAdvise, are now working with Oracle Application Express for almost two years. We have a fixed-team of >8 people daily working within this environment and we realized already several projects.
We also want to share this knowledge to the outside world (e.g. by means of this blog). Therefore we organize, together with Oracle Belgium, our second Apex Seminar at the beginning of next month.
The seminar will be in Dutch. You can find the invitation here and, if you are interested, navigate to our registration page. Of course both the invitation and the registration page are developed in Apex, also the mailing we sent out to our customers and prospects.
What will be discussed during the seminar.
After a small introduction of what Apex is, we show how you can extend the standard functionality of the tool with reusable components which make the development process even faster and error prone.
The second part of the session is dedicated to some case studies and a user testimonial of the different Apex applications we have already built with our Apex team.
The user testimonial is presented by Roularta and deals with the project we realized for them (on time and within budget !). For their “Sportmagazine” we created as a replacement for a non-maintainable MS Access application, an editor for entering weekly all soccer-related data. Based on this data we generate (via SQL Word, see previous post) all kind of classifications that need to be published in their magazine.
We will also show some other cases to illustrate and highlight different features of the tool we already used.
The seminar is closed by a speaker of Oracle Belgium: he will give an explanation on Apex 3.0, the future roadmap and the Ms-Access migration facility.
