At ODTUG Kaleidoscope I promised that I would post my slides from my presentation. Here is a copy of the How to be Creative presentation.

The demos can be found here:

Apex Dictionary: http://www.talkapex.com/2010/07/missing-views-from-apexdictionary.html and http://www.talkapex.com/2008/11/how-to-list-apex-dictionary-views-using.html Tooltips: http://www.talkapex.com/2009/09/tooltip-help-in-apex-alternative-to.html Standardized Help: http://www.talkapex.com/2009/10/standardizing-help-text-in-apex.html APEX Logs: http://www.talkapex.com/2009/03/custom-authentication-status.html Custom Error Messages: http://www.talkapex.com/2010/09/custom-error-messages-in-apex.html