Gerger Consulting

This year, the Scotland Oracle User Group Conference is being held on June 12th at the Oracle Linlithgow Office. At the event, I will be presenting “Building Applications with PL/SQL for the Cloud” at 10:10 in the Cloud track. If you are attending the event, let me know. I’d be happy to meet.
Yalim Gegrer

Craig O'Neill is the Founder and CTO of CaoSys and a recent Formspider customer. This is the feedback he left on our Q&A site.

Here are a few  resources to help you get more value out of Formspider but let’s get the most important question out of the way first:
When Can You Be Productive with Formspider?
In our experience, it takes between one to two weeks for a PL/SQL Developer to become confident enough to start building his first real application with Formspider. If you are familiar with Oracle Forms or Apex the transition will be on the quicker side of the scale.
The resources here should help you get up to speed in the next two weeks.

One of the initial reactions about Formspider from any audience is “But Apex is free. Why should I pay for Formspider, when Apex is free?”
Good question...Let me answer that.

We recently ran a survey among our users and asked them what we can do better. Interestingly, the biggest pain point wasn't about the product but in the way we licensed it. Our licensing made it very difficult for developers to start small. After a few email exchanges with several users it became clear that we had to do something.We are happy to announce that we are correcting the mistake we made. Starting today, Formspider is distributed with the traditional developer seat license.This simple model makes Formspider very straightforward and affordable for the two million PL/SQL Developers.Download Formspider and start building amazing web applications, today.

You may now play the Formspider Reference Application online. The Reference Application shows the best practices in Formspider for the most common use cases developers encounter when building applications.

Today we released a reference application which shows the best practices in Formspider to implement the most common use cases faced by application developers. If you want to learn Formspider or just started building your first application, we strongly recommend you to install it and take a look at its source code. You can download the scripts from the Learning Center.

Brazil is known for its great soccer players and Formspider developers. Here is one of them. Meet Ricardo Monteiro...

Maliakos-Kleidi Construction Company uses an application built with Formspider to manage the design documents used during the construction of the Temp Tunnel in Greece. http://goo.gl/VSP0ZContinue reading the story on the Formspider web site.

Elmec, one of the largest shoe distributors in Greece, uses Formspider.

Business Case
In a recent promotion Elmec enabled its customers to order custom drawings on their new shoes using an iPad. Elmec needed a new small application to manage these custom made orders.

Continue reading the story on the Formspider web site.

On March 26th, I will be presenting "Building Applications for the Cloud with PL/SQL" at 11:30 in Track 9 Development Tools.
We'll talk about the paradigm shift in Enterprise IT and how PL/SQL Developers can build the next generation of applications in this new paradigm.
You can find more about OBUG Connect 2013 here.

Looking forward to meeting you all.Yalim 

Georgian Railways uses an application built with Formspider to manage its documents used in railroad construction and maintenance. Click here to find out why the developer chose Formspider over APEX to build the new version of the software.

Formspider has a number of built-in countermeasures to help developers build secure applications. Implementing security best practices at the framework level, instead of application level, has multiple benefits.

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