Oracle APEX is a powerful and scalable tool for building efficient and secure applications. Over the last 20 years more than 21 million applications have been created using its tools and software. That is a lot of applications, and more importantly, a lot of developers. With so many developers comes many different levels of experience and education. During development work processes change, developers change code, APEX is updated and new vulnerabilities are found. Even with t

Spoiler alert…. Yes you can, and that’s what we’re going to do in this, the first tutorial in a series of Renovate dependency management tutorials. At one point or another, you’ve been responsible for managing the third party code or publicly available docker images used in your projects….. If you haven’t, why on earth are you reading this article? Recently I built out infrastructure for our team which included a self hosted Forgejo git instance. Forgejo is a fork of GitHub

DISCLAIMER - this blog is aimed at creating APIs through the RESTful services section of APEX which was deprecated in ORDS release 25.1. If you are working with ORDS after this patch, chances are this blog will be outdated. Don’t worry, it’s not just you! Setting up APIs in ORDS can be infuriating. The overly-simplified GUI. The lack of good documentation. The condescending replies on stack overflow. It’s all too much. That’s what this blog aims to solve. So if this sounds f