Adventures with Apex

I have been trying to learn Oracle's Application Express (a.k.a. Apex).  Not for my own personal pleasure, for a class, fittingly enough named Oracle Technologies.  And I am still rying to find out where the express part of it comes into play.  So far, after working with Perl, PHP, ASP.net (using VB for the code behind), and Flash and ActionScript 3.0,  I find Apex the most confusing to work with.

Something as simple as a select list was a 3 hour nightmare.  I can get more done in less time with plain html and Perl than I can with Apex.  At least in Perl, I know what the code does.  I wrote it.  In Apex, I am constrained by the way the Apex developers have envisioned a web application.

And that's my rant on Apex.

For those wiching to tackle Apex, you may need this: