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Book review: Oracle Application Express 3.2 – The Essentials and More

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  Language : English Paperback : 644 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ] Release Date : June 2010 ISBN : 1847194524 ISBN 13 : 978-1-847194-52-7 Authors : Arie Geller , Matthew Lyon     In June, just before the official release of APEX 4.0 and #APEX4 Twitter messages popping up on my desktop every minute, I noticed a tweet from one of the authors of this book saying something like: “...bad timing…just released our book APEX 3.2 – Essentials and More …”. Well, I agree. Just looking at the books title, you might really think: Bad Timing. But, you should never just judge a book by its cover (or Title, in this case). Just let´s forget about APEX 4.0 for a moment. This book covers almost all aspects you probably will encounter when developing with APEX. The authors start the book explaining the concepts of APEX and explaining the “APEX Angle” of related (or required) technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript and AJAX. Once the basics are covered, Application development with APEX is e