Domain expertise repository

Domain expertise repository QCGU 1.0.1 offers users an extensive library of scripts and templates for PL/SQL and Oracle development, but you are not restricted to using only this content.  You can take advantage of the same Designer used by the QCGU team to build your own libraries.  You might have other ideas for useful Oracle code.  Or you might be working in an entirely different language.  Whatever the language, whatever the requirements, you can store your reusable code and your custom-designed scripts in QCGU.

The central principle driving the design of the QCGU repository is that people learn from other people, from people they trust, more than they learn from computerized systems or automated searches.  Many PL/SQL developers, for example, look to the writings and teachings of Steven Feuerstein to guide their Oracle development.  Steven has spent several months constructing the elaborate script set found in QCGU.  It wasn't simply a matter to "dumping" lots of articles or files into a container. He gave thought to how best to organize the information into a network of topics (and related code) that would make sense to a PL/SQL developer.

The QCGU Script Browser allows domain experts like Feuerstein to expose their knowledge in a highly structured and accessible fashion.  The end result is a library of reusable code and templates that can be used actively by developers on a day to day, minute to minute basis.

Everyone is an expert in something.  QCGU now gives you a way to store that expertise and make it available to other people in your development team.  Or you might simply want to store some cool code so that you can use it in your next project.

Content designers use the Script Browser to add scripts groups and individual scripts, attach existing scripts to multiple locations in the network, copy script contents, and so on.

The flexibility of the Script Browser means that you can use the repository in many different ways.  For example, Feuerstein carried out a series of seminars in the fall and winter of 2004-2005 that focused on the topic of refactoring for PL/SQL developers.  He complemented his training materials with a script group of those refactorings.

Each refactoring is composed of several steps, all implemented as individual scripts within a script group for each refactoring.

Feuerstein was thus able to take advantage of QCGU in teaching his seminars, and also build an extensive (and ever growing) set of refactorings for all PL/SQL developers to use.

We are sure that you will come up with your own remarkable ideas on how to take advantage.