Pro Oracle Application Express 4, Second Edition
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I would like to dedicate this effort to my father, Louis Fox,
for introducing me to software development by bringing home a TRS-80 when I was 14.
Tim Fox
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About the Authors
Tim Fox has been using Oracle since version 5 in 1989. At that time, the Oracle Forms version was 1.x and procedural code had not yet arrived. Since that time, Tim has been constantly involved in projects where some version of an Oracle database or development tool was being used. Tim has worked in corporate IT for the State of Indiana and The Associates, spent ten years as a manager at Andersen Consulting / Accenture, and is currently the Director of Development at Enkitec, a Dallas-based Oracle services provider.