Connor McDonald has worked with Oracle since the early nineties, cutting his teeth on Oracle versions 6.0.36 and 7.0.12. Over the past 11 years Connor has worked with systems in Australia, the UK, Southeast Asia, Western Europe, and the U.S.. He has come to realize that although the systems and methodologies around the world are very diverse, there tends to be two common themes in the development of systems running on Oracle -- either to steer away from the Oracle-specific functions, or to use them in a haphazard or less then optimal fashion. It was this observation which led to the creation o...