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Tools of the Trade
Continued from Page 8.
The
tools
aspect will be presented as reviews of some selected products. These tools are not the standard big ticket products
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not languages, nor compilers, nor assemblers, nor operating systems.
They are the relatively-inexpensive, stand-alone products used in the development of software systems, tools that may enable us to do our job easier and in less time.
The plan is to not include the very basic tools that every developer should already have on hand, such as text editors and file management utilities
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you probably already have your favorites anyway and you aren’t about to change.
A list of these basic tools will be collected and published (without much comment) from time to time. But if a really neat new basic tool pops up, additional information will be provided about it.
The projected areas include:
System utilities
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such as the components of Norton and Mace.
Diagnostic/monitoring utilities
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for the analysis of strange systems.
Libraries and subroutine collections.
Code generators
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screen, report and program.
Memory managers.
System development aides.
For the most part, the inexpensive tools selected for review in this column will probably not end up being rated by InfoWorld.
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The reviews will include full identification of the product and the publisher (with address and phone number), list and discounted prices, a general overview of the product, system requirements, comments on the documentation, the installation (easy, hard, impossible
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does the installation automatically overwrite files?), size of the program, the basic tasks performed, is a tutorial or samples provided?, general impressions (both good and bad), particular strong points and weak points.
All readers are invited to provide reviews of the special products they have run across. Reviews should follow the general format established above.
If you have difficulty with the writing, submit as much as you can and assistance will be provided to produce the final review.
Member Benefit Instructions
Please remember that shipping and handling must be included in the price of the products.
John will advise you of what the total price is when you call. Contact him at (213)531-6543
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Member Benefits
by John Kinney
The following is a list of software and magazines presently available:
Data Based Advisor
The price is $23.88 for one year of the magazine and a free “Database Report.” Pick up a subscription form from John Kinney.
This fine library of Clipper functions is available from 3P Software for $139.95, $20 off the original price of
$159.95.
Please order this product from John Kinney.
John say this is the best Zip Code software he has seen. It not only gives you the city and state, but will give you every city and state (yes, some zip codes expand more than one state) for that zip code. Our users group can get it for 10% off. Please contact John Kinney for details. He hopes that we have a review article on this product soon.
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The Newsletter of the Dbase Language Professional Developers
GrOUp,
October 1990
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