Colin Archer

Colin is a Senior Development Consultant at DSP-Explorer with 20 years’ experience of analysis, design, and development of bespoke Oracle applications for a wide variety of business functions. Building on his previous experience of Forms and PL/SQL he is now focusing on developing high quality fit for purpose solutions using APEX.

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Latest Posts

Jun 4, 2021 10:45:00 AM

Native Maps in APEX 21.1

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services . Version 21.1 of APEX has recently been..

Oct 13, 2020 12:27:00 PM

APEX 20.2 New Reporting Features

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services . A pre-production version of APEX 20.2 has..

Sep 4, 2020 1:43:46 PM

APEX REST Enabled Forms

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services . Following on from my previous blog, today..

Mar 26, 2020 10:00:10 AM

Using REST Data Sources for APEX List of Values

There have been many new REST features and improvements added to APEX over the past few releases, so I thought now would be a good time to take a look at some of the newer REST..

Oct 8, 2019 2:13:56 PM

Can I Generate PDFs from APEX in the Always Free Oracle Cloud?

Oct 7, 2019 9:47:38 AM

How Do I Access My Free Oracle Cloud Database

If you have created a free database in the new Always Free Oracle Cloud Tier, you can use the provided web version of SQL Developer to gain access to your schemas for development.

Jul 15, 2019 2:36:19 PM

Creating & Consuming Web Services in APEX

Last December at Tech 18 and then again at this year’s UKOUG Midlands Tech Event, I gave a presentation (including live demos) on how to create and consume Web Services in APEX.

Jan 21, 2019 4:27:23 PM

What is the Oracle Forms Standalone Launcher?

I recently attended the Tech 18 conference in Liverpool and sat in on a few Forms presentations where the new Oracle Forms Standalone Launcher (FSAL) was mentioned. As an Oracle..

Dec 20, 2018 1:24:41 PM

Making an APEX Wizard Clickable

Recently I was at the Tech 18 conference in Liverpool where I went to an APEX presentation by Adrian Trotman on the power of lists. During his presentation (which was good by the..