APEX Alpe Adria There are different ways how a story can start. The story about the APEX Alpe Adria conference started in the beautiful city of Rovinj in Croatia. I was travelling from the SiOUG event to the HrOUG event . Since the HrOUG event takes place on the island, I was waiting for the boat transfer. I was standing at the end of the peer and thinking it's good that we have an event in Slovenia and also in Croatia, but at the same time, would it be great to do something together? To do something together, you need other people who would support this idea, and by "coincident", who do I see standing on the peer waiting for a boat transfer ... Dario Bilić. Dario is a good friend of mine. At that time, he was helping with the APEX track for the HrOUG event. I explained my idea to Dario. He suggested, let's also reach out to Peter Raganitsch and we can organise the dedicated APEX event for the Alpe Adria region . Sure enough, Peter supported this idea without an
Today was (again) a nice day. A sunny day with almost 20 degrees (Celsius), no clouds and just the right amount of wind. Perfect conditions to do some paragliding and after the flight, a cold beer with a friend. But there was something else that made my day. It was something that happened in the office. Today we got a visit from a young 18 years old future student. Next year he will go to college and he is still not sure which one or which direction. But he said, he is interested in programming and that is why I invited him to visit us. We started talking, and it went like this: Me: Do you know Oracle or databases. Him: no Me: OK, do you know anything about APEX Him; no Me: OK, what about PL/SQL, SQL, Java, ... Him: no And I thought to my self, this is perfect! My next question was: Do you know anything about ER diagrams? The answer was...No. And I thought to my self, even better...let's try to teach him and see how fast he can learn and even more important if he will understand