The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 1995

Getting to Know....

The Board Members

No one thinks very much about what it takes to make

LA Fox go, in terms of organization and planning.

That’s an indication that things have been going

pretty smooth lately. This article will acquaint you

with the LA Fox Board of Directors/Officers who are

working behind the scenes. It will let you know

about their backgrounds, both in out of Fox-

related territory, and should provide at least a start-

ing point for realizing some of the resources avail-

able to the membership. In the coming months, we’ll

also be “spotlighting” other members of the group.

Bill Anderson , Board Member. FoxPro consultant/

developer specializing in cross-platform develop-

ment. Developer of the 3DBOX.PRG and

CHGFRLBL.PRG GENSCRNX driver. Bill works in

the DOS, Windows and Macintosh environments.

Current afld former clients include the Jet Propulsion

Laboratory, Stanford Business Systems/KSA,

Warner Bros. Records, Rockwell International, and

KPMG Peat Marwick. Bill can be reached on

CompuServe at 72712,3417.

George Dvorak , Board Member. George Dvorak

does custom FoxPro programming and program

modifications for businesses and other consultants.

He works in FoxPro DOS and FoxPro Windows.

His current and past projects include modifications to

AccountMate (version 3.5 and Premier) and SBT

(VisionPoint and Professional) accounting systems;

a shipping-rate shopper that calculates the number

of packages and shipping rates for a variety of

shipping methods; a data entry system that allows

data entry at multiple sites and then merges the

data; created a system to retrieve CD-ROM data (the

application program has only a command-line inter-

face and returns data only to the screen). George’s

CompuServe ID is 71140,3527.

Michael Cummings , Board Member. Michael has a

Bachelors degree with Double Major in Finance and

Accounting from Cal State Fullerton. He has 15

years management experience in the bicycle indus-

try, 6 years with Huffy servicing major retailers such

as Target, Kmart, and Sears. He is also “Factory-

trained in professional Christmas Tree Assembly”.

“I remember waiting every day for the UPS truck to

bring FoxPro 2.0 when it first came out. The first

system I made was for myself and my secretary at

Huffy, to track calls, projects, and schedules for 30

technicians, 60 accounts, and 3 simultaneous large

projects.”

Systems developed range from the usual Payroll

reporting to a full-blown Mortgage Telemarketing

Loan Origination System. Clients have included

AST, American Savings Bank and Fox Broadcasting

His CompuServe ID is 73651,1132.

Allen Garfeln, Treasurer/Membership. The strong,

silent type.

Barry R. Lee , Vice-President/Newsletter Editor.

FoxPro systems developer specializing in custom

applications. Clients include Fox Broadcasting,

Southwest Material Handling, Campus Crusade for

Christ, Stratford-Avon, KIA, and Greaney Medical

Group, among others. His specialties include system

analysis, third-party product integration, RAD tools,

and quality/productivity improvement methodologies.

He can be reached on CompuServe at 72723,3422.

Chuck Williams President After a long career as

an engineer and manager with GE and Honeywell in

the mainframe computer business, Chuck switched

into consulting as an independent about 6 years

ago. He started using FoxBase/Mac to develop

custom database applications back in 1989, when it

was still coming from Fox Software and the Devcons

were held in Perrsyville Ohio. He has been with the

LA Fox User Group since day one when it was

started by Greg Dunn. He did a lot of his application

development work as a subcontractor to Stanford

Business Systems, one of the early FoxPro leaders

and a major Microsoft Solution Provider. Last year

he joined SBS full time as a Project Manager, where

the focus has shifted to client\server systems and

information technology consulting. His CompuServe

ID is 72330,2326.

Making Browse Faster (Con? from page 9)

I could not find any documentation which suggests the

order of the clauses would make any difference, but it

surely does. The good code looks like

BROWSE

KEY m.street

FOR main.direction • m.direction AND

main.streetype = m.streetype AND

m.in.hous.no • m.hous.no

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