Hi ,

On this Valentine's week (yes, in 2022, turning Valentine's Day into Valentine's Week is totally OK), we're coming at you with an ode to our favorite low-code platform.

“Roses are red

Violets are blue

Are you, my friend

an APEX fan too?

When your business' stats

Leave you feeling off-kilter

Try Facets, or Cards!

Or maybe Smart Filters

With all of the goodies

on the Oracle Cloud

Your next-level apps

will make your boss proud.

Add Universal Theme

With its components galore

And your users and clients

Will just keep wanting more.

APEX and ORDS

means REST Data Sources

Integrations come easy

You won't even need courses.

Some days, I feel

You're even better than wine

Oracle APEX, will you be my Valentine?"

However you're celebrating this week, we love that you're here.

This week's edition 

• New blog post: Things we 💓 about APEX!
• Video: Next level/PLSQL with Steven and Anton
• Community news: Things that caught our attention in the Oracle APEX community.
• Upcoming shows: See what's new this week on our Insum YouTube channel

Blog

What's not to love about Oracle APEX? Our team got together to express their love for their favorite application development platform. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Love PL/SQL ❤️?

So do we! But what do we love even more? Watching renowned PL/SQL expert Steven Feuerstein do a code review with Oracle ACE Anton Nielsen. Check out our video presentation of Steven's Next Level PL/SQL program, where two of the best go head to head. And if you or your team are interested in going through something similar with Steven, you'll find more information here.

Oracle APEX Community News

• The APEX Team is at it again with another Office Hours about Vanity URL Extensions for APEX and ORDS on Oracle Autonomous Database. Feb 17 at 15:00 UTC
• East Coast Oracle User Conference starts Feb 22.
• The Flows for APEX team has launched a new YouTube channel. They'll be sharing videos and tips about their awesome open-source BPMN workflow extension for APEX. Subscribe to the channel, so you never miss a thing. It'll help the team, too!
• The ODTUG team shared some Valentine's love by sending the KScope speaker acceptance notifications yesterday. Check your inbox if you submitted. We hope to see you in Texas! Registration for the conference is now open.

On the Insum YouTube Channel

The Insum YouTube channel features fresh content every week. Join live broadcasts to interact with our experts and get useful tips! 

Missed last week?

Last Wednesday on Feuertips, Steven looked back over several of his previous tips and gave us a peek behind the scenes of his latest obsession: improving upon apex_mail.

Last Friday on APEX Instant Tips, Anton and Hayden expanded on their JMeter episode from a couple of weeks ago. It was also Hayden's last APEX Instant Tips 😭 (as a host anyway, we hope to have him on as a guest sometime soon 😊.) 

Coming up this week: 

Friday, Feb. 18

12:05 EST (UTC-5)

That's all for this week! 

See you next Tuesday, 

The Insum team

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