Well since 2.2 development is over seem like I've had a little more 'free' time, well free depending on how you look at it, and have been working on some example applications and some of the Open APEX work.
I changed the look of the Open APEX site and added an rss news feed.
I also put out a shuttle demo application for the Packaged Applications page. It's pretty nice demo and installs all the files needed to run the full demo and it even has a simple wizard to try your code out and give you the PL/SQL required to use the shuttle. I also included some changes from Michael A. Rife to add the option to copy instead of move. You can expect to see more features in the future.
And finally I'm starting up a new Open APEX project where I will be continuing development of my htmldb_remix.js stuff going to rename it of course to apex_remix.js. Basically it will be advanced widgets and javascript functionality for use in APEX applications I think I will have multiple applications within this project each one dedicated to specific widget, I liked how the shuttle one turned out, and hopefully most will include a wizard to help build any PL/SQL or javascript code that will be needed in the page, some examples might not lend themselves to that but most should.
The one thing I have to watch is that most of these widgets at least that I will build, I would like to include in some way in future versions of APEX so I have to pick an open source licenses that allows for that, I guess I have some reading and some work to do.
Now as you can tell by the amount of my blog postings I'm not much of a writer but I did like my brief explination of the Open Apex project on Sourceforge and figured it was worth posting here.
Hello,
Sourceforge is a place where open source projects can be hosted, http://sourceforge.net/docs/about.
It provides many features that help in working on distributed projects
(cvs/subversion bug/feature tracking, development forums and developer
administration features). The Studio is nice and we will continue to
use it does not provide all these features it's more of a application
drop off point.
Not every application is for lack of a better
term 'acceptable/worthy' of being put up as an open source project as
it can't be extended more or developers aren't interested in working on
it, or it is too specialized, that being said we're pretty much
interested in any type of application, usually if one person has a need
for a certain application there is a 100 others that could use
something similar.
It's all a matter of communication/
advertisement, host your application somewhere with demo data, round up
some people that are willing to work on it, upload to the Studio and
post on the Open Apex Sourceforge forum http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=552051
or this forum looking for developers or see if people are interested in
it and want to see more features, it won't take to many replies of "Hey
I'll work on that' or 'Wow thats cool' before people take notice.
There
is not a formal process for starting an project application , maybe
there should be, but at the moment I still think having a working alpha
of your application with at least one developer ready to work on it ,if
you built it that one developer is probably you :). gets you 90% of the
way there.
And if none of this works for you start your own
project again the more the merrier it can only help the Apex community
and other people.
Carl
The worst part now is that I found the instructions to unlock my sim
card on the Cingular site
https://onlinecare.cingular.com/device-support/tutorials.do?universe=cingular&deviceId=7490&tutorialsCategory=Getting+Started&tutorialId=131590
So I either got ripped off by the salesperson or they didn't know anything, either of which just sucks
Cingular you are now on double secret probation, it's only going to
take one more thing and I'm out, an overbilling, some new fee,
whatever. And I'll take as many people with me as I can so you don't
get their monthly fee either.
I hope the profit on the extra phone was worth it to you.
