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Trying the New APEX 26.1 AI Providers, for Free, with Gemini and Mistral One of the features I was itching to try in APEX 26.1 was the expanded Generative AI Service support. Earlier versions only gave us OpenAI, Cohere, and OCI, but 26.1 opened the door to a whole new set of providers. I wanted to see how little effort it really takes, and I wanted to do it without spending a rupee. So I picked the two providers that have genuine free tiers, Google Gemini and Mistral AI, and wired both into the same little app. Here is exactly how it went. Try the live demo → What I set out to build I kept the goal deliberately small, because the point was to test the integration, not to build a product. One page with a box to type a question, a button, and an area that fills in with the answer from the model. That is enough to prove the round trip works, and once it does, everything bigger is just variations on the same idea. The part I was most curious about was whether switching fr...

Oracle APEX / Technique Stamping a watermark across an APEX page There is no checkbox for this in APEX, and that is exactly why it makes a fun little build. Here is how I put a CONFIDENTIAL watermark over a report with nothing but a few lines of CSS. I had a page full of customer data the other day and I wanted it to visibly read CONFIDENTIAL without bolting on a plugin or touching the data. My first instinct was to go looking for a watermark attribute somewhere in Page Designer. Watermark in APEX is not a feature you switch on, it is a small pattern you assemble, and once you see how the pieces fit it takes about five minutes. So I went down the rabbit hole, and this post is the clean version of what I landed on: a simple overlay, the one gotcha that will trip you up, and a couple of ways to take it further. Here is the end result we are working toward. Preview / the finished effect Employees Interactive Report ...

Oracle APEX 26.1 List Link Attributes and Menu Buttons Two small things landed in APEX 26.1 that I now use all the time. One lets a List put your own attributes on each link. The other turns a plain button into a tidy drop down menu. Here is what they do and how I built a quick demo for each one. 01 Introduction I have been going through the Oracle APEX 26.1 features one by one and writing down what I find. This post is the next one in that run. This time it is about two small changes, one for Lists and one for Buttons. I will show what each one does and then walk through a small demo for both, step by step. 02 Why it helps What this used to take Before 26.1, if I wanted one list link to open in a new tab, or carry a small data value for a click, I had to edit template attributes or write extra JavaScript. And when I had five related actions, I added five buttons and the page started to look...