Revising jQuery with Oracle APEX

A few years ago I managed to bust out a book that explored my experiences using jQuery within Oracle APEX to solve various problems, many originally explored when building some "backend" apps for use on tablets.

For those who've read my book, thank you and I hope it was useful to you.
(I also hope you read the revised chapter 9 on calling PL/SQL from JavaScript.)
Please let me know what you thought of it with a review on Amazon.

The reason I bring this up is because I was asked on Twitter whether I would do a revision of my book for APEX 5.1.

@swesley_perth do you plan to write 2nd edition of your book "Pro jQuery in Oralce Application Express" to incorporate apex5.1 feature?

— Kevin Zhang (@kzhangkzhang) August 16, 2017

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but my extra-curricular output has been down this year, despite my best intentions. That's not my answer, but it does weigh into what I think about the answer to that question.

Half of that book was written prior to APEX 5.0 being released. While a lot of the content is agnostic to the version of APEX you have, I must admit my techniques have evolved since the advent of the Page Designer.

That's not to say learning how to apply jQuery within APEX isn't useful. Having these fundamentals are still very much applicable, and useful to know when constructing dynamic actions; and even when defining CSS. But I think because it's much quicker to navigate through your dynamic actions in the Page Designer, I think there is less need to bundle logic within a JavaScript block.

I'm not sure revising this particular book for a later version of APEX would add value.

NASA Cassini

My video course had no particular theme and just explored various APEX techniques, hence the name. My book wasn't much different, and if I was going to do something again in future, it would possibly be along the same lines. Or something
even more applied. I do have ideas.

But I've been enjoying an awful lot of science in the time being. So much going on in space news!
It will be sad to see Cassini finish... Don't be surpised, I already have a post in mind for that amazing project. Correction, I already mentioned it during my 2016 blog review. Heck, I might do another anyway.