Craig Sykes

Craig is a Senior Development Consultant at DSP. 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

14-Jan-2021 09:55:00

Oracle Heralds a New Dawn for APEX

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services . Oracle recently published news about their..

24-Aug-2020 09:22:34

Creating A Mobile App From Scratch

Find out how we can help you build solutions using Oracle APEX with our award winning application development and consultancy services . Most businesses will at some point find a..

08-Apr-2020 09:22:37

Low Code – an APEX developer’s perspective

23-Sep-2019 10:13:04

Oracle ATP Free Tier: Machine Learning and APEX Integration

Finally, Oracle has released a supported free tier of their cloud database offering. I’ve been hoping that they would release some kind of Express Edition in the cloud for years..

28-Aug-2019 11:58:54

AI Tech North

Last month I attended the new AI Tech North conference in Leeds. “AI” (Artificial Intelligence) is a topic I’ve been touching on recently in various projects with technologies..

03-Jul-2019 15:21:15

Build a Chatbot on Your Lunch Break

I’m primarily an APEX developer, and one of the things I love about APEX is how I can create something impressive in such a such a short space of time. I can build an application..

14-Jan-2019 11:50:51

Apiary and APEX

More and more projects I work on at the minute make use of RESTful Web Services. These can either be a way of exposing our own data or a way to make use of data from external..

10-Jan-2019 15:21:26

Creating an Online Leaderboard in APEX

In my spare time I like to play around with creating video games in technologies other than Oracle (!). I recently created a game for an online community that I participate in and..

26-Apr-2018 12:43:30

Integrating Chatbots with your APEX (or non-APEX) web application

Lots of people are talking about chatbots alongside other tech buzzwords like AI and IoT. I like to look into these up-and-coming technologies to see what might be useful for..

24-Jan-2018 15:51:49

Querying an Oracle Database Using Amazon Alexa

At the UKOUG Tech17 conference last year, I delivered a presentation called APEX and the Internet of Things. As part of this presentation, I wanted to demonstrate how to query the..