Craig Sykes

Craig is a Senior Development Consultant at DSP-Explorer. Craig has an MSc in Computing Science and is an experienced software engineer, utilising development tools such as PL/SQL and APEX to provide bespoke ERP software to both UK and international businesses. Craig has experience developing solutions to connect Oracle systems to a wide range of existing external applications within business environments.

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Latest Posts

May 5, 2015 10:00:35 AM

Apex 5.0 from Early Adopter to Production

I wrote a blog in September 2014 about what I thought of the early adopter release of APEX 5.0 and have been using APEX 5.0 ever since. I thought it would be a good idea to take a..

Apr 27, 2015 10:00:03 AM

Creating a Modal Dialog in APEX 5.0

Modal dialogs are a useful feature for all kinds of APEX applications and with the release of APEX 5, they are supported natively. You can easily implement one as part of a “Form..

Feb 23, 2015 10:27:47 AM

Creating a Mobile App in Apex 5.0

Since the release of APEX 5.0 EA3 I’ve been looking into the updated mobile theme and what we can produce with it. In this blog I will show you how I created a small demo..

Feb 16, 2015 8:45:55 AM

Parsing JSON in APEX 5.0

As part of the APEX 5.0 Beta documentation there is a new APEX_JSON package available. This is a welcome addition that helps us integrate our applications with web services that..

Dec 22, 2014 9:05:59 AM

Securing Vulnerability Exploits with Apex – Part 3

For my final security blog I will be looking at SQL injection and cross site scripting, both of which should always be considered when developing a web based application. Apex has..

Dec 15, 2014 10:16:44 AM

ORDS 3 – Installation

This article builds on the ORDS blogs I have been writing but moves forward a little to look at the ORDS version 3 early adopter and specifically getting it up and running.

Dec 8, 2014 2:50:40 PM

Securing Vulnerability Exploits with Apex – Part 2

Following on from my last blog, which focused on configuring access control within Apex, the focus of this blog is protecting the session state within an application. We will look..

Dec 4, 2014 10:43:28 AM

Replacing Discoverer with APEX and BIP – A Perfect Match

I have already looked at the fact that APEX is a perfect replacement for Discoverer in an earlier blog post and that inbuilt tools such as the powerful APEX interactive report..

Nov 25, 2014 12:00:10 PM

APEX Security Considerations – Part 1

Whenever you are developing a web based application, there are many security concerns that need to be considered. When developing using Oracle Apex, there are a number of in-built..

Nov 13, 2014 9:11:56 PM

APEX I get, but what is ORDS

This article is the first in a series which will look at the Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS previously known as the APEX listener) and APEX and the features that you can unlock.