BCBruno Cardosoincardoso.hashnode.dev·6h ago · 4 min readPage Designer is going to dieA few days ago, I was taking a shower when BAM! I was hit by the shower effect (it happens to many of us in this field), and I started thinking: developing through a low-code interface, as we did befo00
JDJon Dixoninblog.cloudnueva.com·2d ago · 3 min readWhat Is Jev, and Can APEX Developers Benefit?Plamen Mushkov mentioned Jev to me in a LinkedIn post on Friday. Of course I signed up for an API key to see whether it could help APEX developers. Jev is a System One AI model from TypeSafe. You send00
JDJon Dixoninblog.cloudnueva.com·3d ago · 2 min readContext is a BudgetThe more I work with APEX AI Agents, the more convinced I am that context should be treated as a budget. The system prompt, tool definitions, conversation history, and tool responses all spend some of20
THTimo Herwixintm-apex.hashnode.dev·5d ago · 5 min readWhy Your Updated PDF Still Shows the Old Version in Oracle APEX - And How to Fix It with NginxRecently, I encountered an unexpectedly tricky issue while maintaining documentation files on an internal web server. The setup itself was simple: PDFs are hosted on an Nginx server Users access the00
JDJon Dixoninblog.cloudnueva.com·5d ago · 18 min readAPEX AI Agents: Comparing Cost, Quality, and ModelsIntroduction Are you excited about AI Agents in Oracle APEX 26.1? I am. But before we make an agent out of everything, we should understand what it costs, what actually drives that cost, and which opt31J
JDJon Dixoninblog.cloudnueva.com·Sep 12 · 2 min readVector Search is HardIn spite of the demos you have seen, implementing vector search for a real-world application is hard. Google Search has set user expectations for search. Those expectations carry over into APEX apps. 11I
JDJon Dixoninblog.cloudnueva.com·Sep 9 · 2 min readWhen to use an AI Coding AgentA few weeks ago, I set up an automation in Codex to send me a weekly report on how efficiently I use AI for APEX development. The report is consistently telling me that I am using AI too much for smal11M
THTimo Herwixintm-apex.hashnode.dev·Sep 4 · 12 min readBuilding my Oracle APEX 26.1 AI Playground with Oracle AI Database 26ai, ORDS, SQLcl, Codex, MCP and APEXlangIntroduction Over the last few days I wanted to build a personal Oracle APEX playground for experimenting with modern AI-assisted development workflows. My goal was simple: Oracle AI Database 26ai Fr00
JDJon Dixoninblog.cloudnueva.com·Sep 3 · 11 min readTranslating an APEX 26.1 App with an AI Coding AgentIntroduction APEX 26.1 introduced a new Text Message-Based approach to application translation. Unlike the traditional Application-Based approach, it allows one application to support multiple languag10
MMarkinr12.hashnode.dev·Aug 26 · 1 min readAPEX sidestep - inconventient "Warn on Unsaved Changes"Some of my Oracle APEX pages give me a "Warn on unsaved changes" even though the user has not touched any items yet. To determine which of the items APEX believe have been touched you can execute belo00
