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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
December 2000
Help Wanted
Job Title: Foxpro Admin, MS office HD
Job Id (Use when Referring to Position): EB-3686871 168
Job Type: Full-time Permanent
Location: SUNNWALE, CA 94089,
Compensation: $60,000 To $80,000
Job Description: Great oppertunity to work for fast growing
Semiconductor manufacturer. The MIS department will soon be
going through major new development to new ERP systems.

Currently support Foxpro Database that produces reports for manufacturing systems (MRP) and sales reports. The database is already designed but you will need a good working knowledge of Foxpro and ability to make minor modifications. Automated reports are generated daily from information gathered across a PC LAN. Executive reports are geneated manualy about twice a week. You will need a good understanding of any manufacturing business. You will also use Excell to generate tables and charts included in the reports, some Powerpoint is a plus. Also provide some help desk functions for the user support of MS Office applications such as Outlook and Exchange Server.

You can learn their current software (Consilium package) used for their inventory management and reporting. The are getting ready to upgrade to a new state of the art ERP sytem and you will be trained on this and possibly get into programming if you wish.

Key skills required:
Hands on working knowledge of Foxpro and Microsoft Office
(Excell and Outlook) Automated and manual report generation.
Some working knowledge of manufacturing, good communication skills.

Contact info is: Mike Young, Young & Associates, phone(81 3) 223 5848, e-mail young.associates@gte.net.
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Washington Post Humor
The Washington Post’s Style Invitational asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. This was one of the best ever:

1) Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly
2) Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the
purpose of getting laid.
3) Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
4) Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and
the person who doesn’t get it.
5) Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running
late.
6) Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
7) Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
8) Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending off all
these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes
and it’s like, a serious bummer.
9) Glibido: All talk and no action.
10) Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem
smarter when they come at you rapidly.
11) Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts
until you realize it was your money to start with.
12) Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an a**hole.
Command Manager (Con’t from page 8)

[Ed.Note: Jeff Bowman is a 5-year developerliving in the chilly north country of Fairbanks, Alaska, where he routinely fends off Great White Bears while in pursuit of his passion, building software applications with his favorite programming tool, Visual FoxPro.)


Cool Quotes
“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.”
- Richard Lamm

(Con’t, next column)
Cool Quotes (conV
“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”
- Johnny Carson

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.”
- Shirley Temple

“From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.”
- Katharine Whitehorn

“Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who’d have ever guessed that product consump tion, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?”
- Calvin’s Dad (from Calvin and Hobbes)
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