Expert Oracle Application Express
Copyright 2011 by John Edward Scott, Dietmar Aust, Martin Giffy D'Souza, Doug Gault, Dimitri Gielis, Roel Hartman, Michael Hichwa, Sharon Kennedy, Denes Kubicek, Raj Mattamal, Dan McGhan, Francis Mignault, Anton Nielsen
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Contents at a Glance
Contents
Foreword
When I wrote my first book, Pro Oracle Application Express, back in 2008 (with Scott Spendolini contributing a chapter on Themes and Templates), I found it an extremely rewarding experience. However, like a lot of first-time authors, I found it very tough to fit writing in around my regular day job and other commitments. Pro Oracle Application Express ended up taking a lot longer than originally anticipated and ran to almost twice as many pages as originally planned, mainly due to my passion for the subject matterI kept wanting to give more and more information.
I was extremely happy to see that when Pro Oracle Application Express was released, it was a very big success, at times ranking in the Top 1000 of all books sold on Amazon, which is quite an achievement for a technical book, let alone for a relatively niche area like Oracle Application Express. It was also the top selling book at Oracle Openworld that year.
So I'd done it, I'd written my first book, something I always wanted to do and it was (by relative standards) a great success. However, the questions soon started: Hey, John, when are you writing another book? Well, my reply was never again!