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 communica-

tion skills.

Contact info is: Mike Young, Young & Associates, phone(81 3)

223 5848, e-mail young.associates@gte.net.

Lots O’Stuff...

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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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