Customize/Personalize Oracle APEX Workspace Environment

When you have multiple Oracle APEX environments, e.g., development, test, UAT and production, and for multiple groups, one of the confusing things is that sometimes developers are lost on which environment they’re working on. Most of technically proficient developers can make a distinction easily from the URLs they’re currently using. However, most of less technically …

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Book Review: Android Application Testing Guide (Deigo Torres Milano) by PACKT Publishing

When I was offered to review this book, I was so excited. The topic is probably one of the least popular topics in the Android development circle based on the number of books written on Android. Most of the books in the market tend to cover solely on the area of actual development because it …

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Oracle APEX (Application Express) Built-in LDAP Test Tool Stand-alone Application

Oracle APEX provides multiple ways for authentication. The most commonly used one is the LDAP authentication. Configuring it is very straight-forward in most cases – just providing the LDAP host, port, whether or not to use SSL, and finally the DN string. See here and here for posts about APEX LDAP configuration. Sometime you want …

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Book Review: Oracle 11g R1/R2 Real Application Clusters Essentials by Ben Prusinski and Syed Jaffer Hussain (Packt Publishing)

Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)  becomes the technology of choice for highly available and highly scalable deployment of enterprise Oracle database environment. With its innovative technology it comes with no surprise its complexity. The complexity is not only with the underlying database technology itself, but also how well you design and implement it to work …

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SQL Developer with “I/O Error: SSO Failed: Native SSPI library not loaded” when connecting to MS SQL using Windows Authentication

I encountered this error “I/O Error: SSO Failed: Native SSPI library not loaded” when using Oracle SQL Developer connecting to a MS SQL database using Windows Authentication. Fortunately, couple web sites (here and here) already mentioned about this. Basically, from the  jTDS distribution downloaded files, I have to copy a DLL file named ntlmauth.dll (which is …

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Book Review: Learning Android by Marko Gargenta (O’Reilly Book)

Learning Android is a collection of many years’ experience of the author, Marko Gargenta, who has been teaching the Android bootcamp training to thousands of software developers. It covers all necessary topics about Android starting from a high-level overview (history and concept) until the nuts and bolts (writing codes for Twitter-like application called Yamba application). …

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