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Expose your Local Development Environment to the outside world with Ngrok

When we develop on localhost, we usually use some kind of simple HTTP server like node, our Oracle database,APIs, webhooks, Callback Urls or whatever. This is all good and we are all pretty happy about that. We have access to our app using our fancy  http://localhost  url. We are happy, but  alone . What if you would like to share your app to a colleague that is not on the same network as yours ? What if you need to check your app on an SSL connection? What if you wanted an external system to pass you a process invoked by a method ? ngrok to the rescue Ngrok   is a simple “free” service that can help you with that. Here’s some of the features that it provides: Expose your locally hosted app/website to the outside world by providing you a  http(s)://{something}.ngrok.io  url. Allows you to have an SSL connection to your localhost environment. Inspect/replay the requests made to your local environment Custom subdomain (required a premium account) Password protect your ex
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OTN Appreciation Day : Oracle Database Cloud Service

Looking at my cup , had the caption "If we don't take care of the customer... somebody else will" this morning made me realize the enormous effort that Oracle has putting into it's products to make it a topnotch brand. Omg! so much to choose from and talk about.Today been OTN Appreciation Day  ,I will limit it to the  Oracle Database Cloud Service .  It is simply Database Development and Administration computed on the internet.Where in the past , you run applications developed  and administrated the database(APEX, Rest Services,PLSQL ,Java/ADF.s,etc) on some physical computer or server in your company building or at home but Oracle Database Cloud Service is just like your on premise  instance  just on the internet, giving you the same features, same software and same options. You can get started and explore the endless features that it comes with here . Also go check out what others are thankful for here .

Orclapex Accra Meetup

Apex just gets better by the day. This idea of a meetup has been influenced by the the various local groups around the world.  Right now, there are a number of groups already formed across the world:  ·        ORCLAPEX-MSP  for the Minneapolis, St. Paul area led by  Jorge Rimblas ·        ORCLAPEX-DFW  for the Dallas/Fort Worth area led by  Doug Gault ·        ORCLAPEX-MTL  for the Montreal area of Cadana led by  Francis Mignault ·        ORCLAPEX-NYC  for the New York City area led by  Dan McGhan ·        ORCLAPEX-VIENNA   for the Vienna Austria area led by  Peter Raganitsch you can  check out the recently created   ApexMeetups  which houses a repository of all apex meet ups around the world.On the Global map  found none on my continent.As the african adage says "With our thoughts we make the world " - I decided to startup one.  This great product from oracle in the part where I live is under utilized. This meetup is created is to help  1. Meet fello

Disabling of Password Expiration in Oracle Apex(Internal Workspace Admin)

This post was inspired by a  question  on the OTN APEX forum, which contains how to  reset set the password of the  Oracle Internal Workspace Admin    and  Set the account never to expire  The first bullet has so many blogs  talk about how to reset the password of the Internal Workspace. However, i am more intrigued with the second . To start of with It is not advisable to never expire accounts since its rudimental for user to always renew their accounts  prior to expiration. The default expiration of an account is mostly 180 days so hey whats the point going to do this again after 180 days?? . There are two methods that can be used to achieve this  Generic Never expiration of all User accounts (This should never be practiced in a production Environment All database users are assigned to something called a PROFILE . The profile controls two aspects of the users database access – the system resources available to the user and th