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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Preface ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
OS/2 Bay Area User Group Online Reference, May, 1994
This document is a reference of information about the OS/2 Bay Area User Group.
Please send your comments to author Dave Briccetti.
This document contains photographs which display best with high resolution
display modes such as 1024x768x256.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. General Information ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
OS/2 Bay Area User Group
The OS/2 Bay Area User Group exists to serve people interested in OS/2 and
related operating systems. We provide an information exchange for users,
developers, planners, and anyone using or considering OS/2. We hold a main
meeting each month, and have Special Interest Groups that hold their own
monthly meetings.
Membership in the group costs $25/year. Membership entitles you to free
admission to our monthly meeting, a monthly mailing that describes upcoming
events and other news of interest regarding OS/2, use of our group lending
library, and other benefits. For example, User Group members were recently
able to purchase copies of the DeScribe word processor at a special low price
of $75.00.
Nonmembers can receive our mailing free for 3 months by filling out an
information request form.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.1. Membership ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Membership in the OS/2 Bay Area User Group is available to all for $25 per
year. Membership gives you free admission to our monthly meeting, a monthly
announcement of upcoming events, and additional member benefits. Membership is
available by mail or at the general meeting.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.1.1. Membership Form ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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(For information on printing this form, see Help.)
*** Join the OS/2 Bay Area User Group ***
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check for $25 is enclosed.
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Please send meeting announcements by [ ] Email [ ] US Mail [ ] Both
My interest in OS/2 is as a [ ] User [ ] Developer [ ] Press
Mail to: OS/2 Bay Area User Group
2163 Jardin Drive
Mountain View, CA 94040
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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.2. Contact Points ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Here are the contact points for the organization.
Area Contact Person(s)
General Information Sanford Rockowitz, Guy Scharf
Get the Most out of OS/2 Monthly Diskette Set Robert Reynolds
Library Dean Klingler
Mailing List Changes Ed Brink
Membership Paul Cardinale
Newsletter Guy Scharf
Programs Sanford Rockowitz
Publicity Dave Briccetti
Developers SIG Dave Briccetti
Enterprise Computing SIG Larry Baptist, Steve Burton
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.3. Internet Access ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
You can get current information about the user group via the Internet.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.3.1. World Wide Web Home Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
For those of you with Web clients such as NCSA Mosaic or Lynx, we offer a World
Wide Web Home Page:
file://netcom8.netcom.com/pub/os2baug/main.html
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.3.2. Anonymous FTP Site ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
You can locate use group related files such as speaker handouts and this online
reference on our Anonymous FTP Site:
ftp.netcom.com pub/os2baug
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Monthly Meetings ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Our primary meeting is held the fourth Monday of each month. We usually meet
at the Auditorium of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park,
though we occasionally change the location for special events. Some meetings
highlight specific products or product areas, while others present key industry
figures.
Recent meetings have featured:
o Lee Reiswig, President of IBM's Personal Software Products Division
o Larry Loucks, Personal Software Products Vice President for System
Architecture, the person primarily responsible for IBM's Workplace strategy
o A word processor shootout, with presentations by AmiPro, DeScribe, and
WordPerfect
o A mini trade fair, with a dozen vendors displaying peripherals such as video
and SCSI cards that work with OS/2
o Bob Orfali, coauthor of the bestselling book Client/Server Programming with
OS/2
o Cliff Reeves, IBM PSP's Director of Object Technology Products, on IBM's
object strategy
Each month's meeting also features a Disk Set of the Month. Available for $5,
the Disk Set contains recent OS/2 public domain software, shareware, fixes, and
information.
The general meeting starts at 7:30 PM, and is preceded by a New User Clinic at
7:00 to help those getting started with OS/2. Meeting attendance is free to
User Group members. There is a $3.00 meeting registration fee for nonmembers.
Location:
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Auditorium
2575 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park
Directions
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.1. Upcoming Meetings ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The following meetings are announced.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.1.1. May 23, 1994 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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*** OS/2 Bay Area User Group ***
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Client/Server Survival Guide
Bob Orfali and Dan Harkey
IBM
Monday, May 23, 1994
7:30 P.M.
New User Clinic
7:00 P.M.
Auditorium
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
2575 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California
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Do you feel overwhelmed by client/server choices? Our May meeting features two
seasoned guides--Bob Orfali and Dan Harkey who have just completed their newest
book: Client/Server Survival Guide with OS/2 (VNR, 1994). You can hear directly
from the Guides' mouth which technology they're betting on. Bob and Dan have
generated a survival roadmap that can guide you through some rough
client/server terrain. They've been through it themselves, and lived to tell
about it. Bob and Dan invite you to join them in a session where you can catch
your breath and get a strong dose of speculation on where client/server and
distributed objects are going.
Bob and Dan are the authors of the best selling book "Client/Server
Programming with OS/2 2.1." They are West Coast Distributed Object Consultants
for IBM PSP Austin. They spent the last seven years developing Client/Server
systems and tools.
Admission is free to members of the OS/2 Bay Area User Group. Nonmember
registration fee is $3, or you may sign up for membership at the door for $25
for one year.
Directions to SLAC: Take the Sand Hill Road East exit off I-280. The second
traffic light after the one at the interchange is the entrance to SLAC. Turn
right. Stop at the guard house and tell the guard that you are going to the
OS/2 Bay Area User Group meeting. The Auditorium is in the central area of the
complex and is the building straight ahead of you when you are at the guard
house.
For more information contact:
Sanford Rockowitz Internet: rockowitz@acm.org
Guy Scharf CompuServe: 76702,557
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.2. Prior Meeting Announcements ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
These announcements are for meetings which have already taken place.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.2.1. April 25, 1994 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
We have two events on April 25, 1994.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.2.1.1. Vendor Exhibition ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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*** OS/2 Bay Area User Group ***
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OS/2 Vendor Exhibition
Monday, April 25, 1994
6:00 P.M. - 7:30 P.M.
Auditorium
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
2575 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California
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Stop by before the monthly OS/2 Bay Area User Group meeting for an OS/2 Vendor
Exhibition. This is a great opportunity to see interesting OS/2 products
firsthand and meet the people who created them.
Come see these products and more:
Footprint Software - Footprint Works for OS/2
Guild Products - GUILD UIMS
Hilgraeve - HyperAccess/5 and KopyKat
Hockware - VisPro Rexx
Integra Technologies - OASAS I
Megus - PageTurner Postscript Viewer
MetaWare - High C/C++ Compiler with DirectToSOM Support
MSR Development - BackMaster
One Up Corporation - SourceLink, OpenShutter, WindowWasher
Segue Software - QA Partner
Sundial Systems - Relish
Sytron Corporation - Sytos Plus
Watcom - VX-Rexx and C++
Our exhibitors will have special offers for attendees, and we'll have a great
collection of door prizes at the User Group meeting following the exhibition at
7:30 P.M. Stay for the meeting and hear Ron Cadima of IBM tell how to tune
your OS/2 system for its best performance. Admission to the vendor exhibition
is free to all; admission to the user group meeting following is free for
members and $3 for all others.
Directions to SLAC: Take the Sand Hill Road East exit off I-280. The second
traffic light after the one at the interchange is the entrance to SLAC. Turn
right. Stop at the guard house and tell the guard that you are going to the
OS/2 Bay Area User Group meeting. The Auditorium is in the central area of the
complex and is the building straight ahead of you when you are at the guard
house.
For more information contact:
Dave Briccetti (510) 945-7565 Ext. 130, daveb@netcom.com
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.2.1.2. Ron Cadima, OS/2 performance expert; Timothy Sipples ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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*** OS/2 Bay Area User Group ***
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Tuning OS/2 for Performance
Ron Cadima
IBM
Special visit by
Timothy Sipples
IBM
Monday, April 25, 1994
7:30 p.m.
Auditorium
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
2575 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California
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Our April speaker will be OS/2 performance expert Ron Cadima. Ron will discuss
how to tune your OS/2 system for performance, including changes you can make to
CONFIG.SYS, OS/2 system settings, and DOS/Windows subsystem settings. He will
discuss the memory requirements of the various OS/2 components and how to
analyze memory usage. In addition, he will review considerations for choosing
hard disks and file systems.
Ron is an Advisory Programmer with IBM, specializing in OS/2 Kernel Development
and performance issues.
Timothy Sipples, well known in the OS/2 community for his enthusiastic and
articulate promotion of OS/2, will also join us. Tim is the creator of the
OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions list. Tim will tell us what he is up to now
that he is working for IBM, and will take questions from the audience.
Our April Disk of the Month set will include a memory usage analysis tool from
Ron that allows you determine how much memory the various components of the
operating system and your applications are using over time. Also on the Disk
of the Month set will be the slides from Paul Giangarra's talk last month on
OS/2 strategy and Workplace OS.
Admission is free to members of the OS/2 Bay Area User Group. Nonmember
registration fee is $3, or you may sign up for membership at the door for $25
for one year.
Directions to SLAC: Take the Sand Hill Road East exit off I-280. The second
traffic light after the one at the interchange is the entrance to SLAC. Turn
right. Stop at the guard house and tell the guard that you are going to the
OS/2 Bay Area User Group meeting. The Auditorium is in the central area of the
complex and is the building straight ahead of you when you are at the guard
house.
For more information contact:
Dave Briccetti (510) 945-7565 Ext. 130, daveb@netcom.com
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Special Interest Groups ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The user group has Special Interest Groups, or SIGs, which provide meetings and
activities for members with common technical interests.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1. Developers SIG ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
OS/2 Developers SIG
The Developers SIG focuses on topics of interest to OS/2 programmers, with
educational presentations, product demonstrations, and strategy briefings. It
also provides a forum for OS/2 developers to network and socialize.
A typical meeting includes a speaker, a Programming Tip of the Month, and a
question and answer period.
Recent meetings have covered PM programming and testing, Workplace Shell
programming, object oriented technology and the System Object Model, and the
C/Set++ User Interface Class Library.
The SIG meets the second Monday of each month at the IBM Ultimedia Tools Group
in Mountain View. Meeting time is 7:00 PM, and doors open at 6:30. Meetings are
currently free and are open to the public.
The Developers SIG maintains the OS/2 Consultants Directory, which is available
to the public and is provided to companies inquiring about OS/2 expertise.
To subscribe to an electronic mailing list for SIG news, send a note containing
the line, "SUBSCRIBE DEVSIG" (without quotes) to daveb@netcom.com. Send the
command "SUBSCRIBE CONSDIR" to subscribe to the OS/2 Consultants Directory.
Location:
IBM
1055 Joaquin Road
Mountain View
Directions
For more information, contact SIG chair Dave Briccetti.
Internet: daveb@netcom.com, CIS: 74475,1072, Fax: 510 945-7436, Voice: 510
945-7565.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.1. Meeting Facilities ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Meeting Facilities are provided by IBM and David Berkowitz.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.2. Upcoming Meetings ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Here is information about upcoming meetings of the Developers SIG.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.2.1. June 1994, Application Frameworks ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Developers SIG June Meeting
Programming With Frameworks by Dave Wilson and Steve Wilson
On Monday, June 13, the OS/2 Bay Area User Group Developers SIG will hold its
monthly meeting at 7:00 P.M.
Abstract
Frameworks provide a valuable technique for reusing an object-oriented design
and its implementation. This talk will discuss how you can design and develop
reusable frameworks to encapsulate expertise about specific problem domains.
The focus will be on the software development process and strategies for
developing applications based on multiple frameworks.
New language-independent diagramming techniques will shown that can help you in
the design of new frameworks. You will see how a collection of frameworks can
be used to quickly develop a family of related programs.
Dave Wilson
David A. Wilson, Ph.D., is the owner of Personal Concepts, which specializes in
consulting and training on advanced software development using object-oriented
programming and frameworks. Dave has taught MacApp programming for Apple,
Smalltalk programming for ParcPlace Systems, and "Pink" programming for
Taligent. He has been teaching seminars on how to write domain-specific
frameworks for the last two years.
Steve Wilson
Stephen D. Wilson is Managing Partner of Emergent Behavior, a software startup
that develops and markets class libraries and frameworks. Steve has written
MicroGA(tm), a C++ framework that uses Genetic Algorithms to solve optimization
problems, and Vector(tm), a C++ framework for physics simulation. Steve also
teaches object-oriented programming seminars for Apple.
See Also:
o Developers SIG General Information
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.3. Prior Meeting Announcements ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Here are announcements of prior meetings of the Developers SIG.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.3.1. May 1994, Writing Device Drivers For OS/2, Gregory Gilliss ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Developers SIG May Meeting
On Monday, May 9, the OS/2 Bay Area User Group Developers SIG will hold its
monthly meeting at 7:00 p.m. at IBM, 1055 Joaquin Road, Mountain View.
Developers SIG member Gregory Gilliss will present his talk, Writing Device
Drivers For OS/2.
Outline:
1. Writing Device Drivers is Not Hard/ Arcane/Mysterious
2. Device Drivers can be Written in C language or Assembler
A. Assembler offers tighter executable code
B. C language offers greater maintainability
3. Tools and Examples Available
A. Device Driver Developers Toolkit - OS/2 source code and
B. ASDT - assembler source debugger
C. Debug Kernal
4. Kinds, Similarities, and Differences
A. Physical Device Drivers versus Virtual Device Drivers
B. 16 bit versus 32 bit architecture points
C. Character versus Block devices
5. Architecture
A. Strategy Routine (including Initialization)
B. Interrupt Routine
6. Control Prograam Interface
A. Devhlp Routines - PDDs
B. Virtual DevHlp Routines - VDDs
7. Inter Device Driver Communication
A. VDD -> PDD
B. PDD -> VDD
8. Documentation in Source Code
9. Books Available for Further Study
See Also:
o Developers SIG General Information
After Meeting Notes
Gregory Gilliss gave a very interesting overview of writing OS/2 device
drivers. He recommended the IBM Device Driver Kit, which has a new lower
price, the Developer Connection CD ROM, and Steve Mastrianni's device driver
book.
Gregory's presentation materials are available on ftp.netcom.com in
pub/os2baug/devsig.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.3.2. April 1994 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Developers SIG will have two meetings in April: a regular meeting on Monday
April 11th and a special event with Ira Forman speaking on SOM on Wednesday
April 27th.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.3.2.1. Adding IPF Help to your Applications, Githogori ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
On Monday, April 11, the OS/2 Bay Area User Group Developers SIG will hold its
monthly meeting at 7:00 p.m. at IBM, 1055 Joaquin Road, Mountain View. OS/2
Bay Area User Group Board member Githogori will discuss how to add help to your
PM applications.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.3.2.2. Developers SIG Special Event, Ira Forman, Metaclass Programming ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
On Wednesday, April 27, SOM developer Ira Forman will address a special meeting
of the Developers SIG. Dr. Forman is a member of IBM's Object Technology
Products Group, which has produced the SOMobjects Toolkit. His talk is entitled
Metaclass Programming: The Next Epoch in the Evolution of Software Development.
It promotes metaclass programming for greater reusability and reduced costs. A
full abstract of this talk is available.
Location
This special meeting will be held in conjunction with the Technical Interchange
'94 in the Pink Pearl room of Hotel Nikko at 7:00 p.m. The address is 222
Mason Street in San Francisco.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.3.3. March 1994, PM Programming; Workplace OS, Kelvin Lawrence ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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OS/2 Bay Area User Group
Developers SIG
Monday, March 14th, 1994
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The OS/2 Bay Area User Group Developers SIG (Special Interest Group) will have
its monthly meeting on Monday, March 14th. This meeting will be held in
conjunction with the Business Software Solutions and Software Development
conferences at the San Jose Convention Center. Our special guest speaker will
be Kelvin Lawrence, the lead architect/designer for the OS/2 Presentation
Manager, and the technical release manager for the first release of Workplace
OS. He lead the team that ported the Graphics Engine to 32-bit C from 16-bit
assembler and was technical owner of PM for the OS/2 2.1 release. Currently he
is working on the port of PM to the MicroKernel and to non-Intel hardware.
Kelvin's highly technical talk will cover many areas of OS/2, including the
Presentation Manager and the Graphics Programming Interface. The meeting,
which is free and open to the public, is from 7-10 PM at the San Jose
Convention Center.
Date: Monday, March 14th, 1994
Time: 7:00 to 10:00 PM
Place: San Jose Convention Center. Rooms C1 and C2
For more information contact:
Dave Briccetti (510) 945-7565, fax: 945-7436
daveb@netcom.com
74475,1072
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.3.4. February 1994, Programming Robust PM Apps, Guy Scharf ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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OS/2 Bay Area User Group
Developers SIG
Monday, February 14th, 1994
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The OS/2 Bay Area User Group Developers SIG (Special Interest Group) will have
its monthly meeting on Monday, February 14th. Guy Scharf, of Software
Architects, Inc, will talk about good programming techniques for developing
robust, commercial Presentation Manager applications. Guy is a founder, board
member, and treasurer of the user group. He is an accomplished PM programmer
with a lot of useful information to share.
Date: Monday, February 14th, 1994
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Doors open at 6:30 for Social/Networking time before meeting.
Place:IBM
1055 Joaquin Rd (Near 101 and Shoreline - cross street: Plymouth)
Mountain View, California
For more information contact:
Dave Briccetti (510) 945-7565
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After Meeting Notes
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At the February 14th meeting user group treasurer Guy Scharf, of Software
Architects, Inc., showed us techniques for developing robust, commercial PM
applications.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.3.5. January 1994, WITT, Cindy Gordon ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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OS/2 Bay Area User Group
Developers SIG
Monday, January 10, 1994
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The OS/2 Bay Area User Group Developers SIG (Special Interest Group) will have
its monthly meeting on Monday, January 10th. IBM Software Marketing Agent Cindy
Gordon will show us WITT (Workstation Interactive Test Tool). WITT automates
many of the tasks associated with testing PM programs. It creates scripts when
you run your application, and records keystrokes and mouse movements. It saves
and compares screens or areas within screens each time you play back a script,
and quickly identifies differences. Accompanying Cindy to handle our technical
questions will be Randy Randolphi, one of WITT's developers from IBM Santa
Teresa Labs.
Date: Monday, January 10, 1994
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Doors open at 6:30 for Social/Networking time before meeting.
Place:IBM
1055 Joaquin Rd (Near 101 and Shoreline)
Mountain View, California
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After Meeting Notes
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At the January 10th meeting, IBM Software Marketing Agent Cindy Gordon and
Santa Theresa Lab developer Randy Randolphi showed us WITT (Workstation
Interactive Test Tool). WITT automates many of the tasks associated with
testing PM programs. Cindy gave a short presentation and then we had a very
interesting Q & A and technical discussion. Naturally, group member and
Workplace Shell pioneer Ray Grimmond wanted to know if WITT could be used to
automate testing of WPS apps. He will try it and let us know.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.3.6. 1993 Meetings ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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OS/2 Bay Area User Group
Developers SIG
Special Dinner Meeting
Monday, December 13, 1993
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The OS/2 Bay Area User Group Developers SIG (Special Interest Group)
will have its monthly meeting on Monday, December 13th.
Date: Monday, December 13, 1993
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Place: Frankie Johnnie & Luigi Too
Italian Food & Pizzeria
939 West El Camino Real
Mountain View
415 967-5384
The purpose of this special dinner meeting is to give us a chance to
socialize and network a bit with our peers. All OS/2 developers are
welcome to attend.
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After Meeting Notes
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Our December meeting was an informal pizza get-together in Mt. View. It gave
us a chance to socialize a bit and talk about our projects.
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OS/2 Bay Area User Group
Developers SIG
Monday, November 8, 1993
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The OS/2 Bay Area User Group Developers SIG (Special Interest Group)
will have its monthly meeting on Monday, November 8th. The topic will be
Productive Use of the IPMD Debugger and Execution Analyzer and Programming
Containers Part 2.
Date: Monday, November 8, 1993
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Doors open at 6:30 for Social/Networking time before meeting.
Place:IBM
1055 Joaquin Rd (Near 101 and Shoreline)
Mountain View, California
Dave Briccetti of Dave Briccetti & Associates will continue his workshop on
programming containers and how to use the IPMD debugger and Execution Analyzer.
In part 1 of the workshop, Dave used his new program, "Air Traffic Control
Container," to teach container programming concepts. ATC Container has a
Radar View, which resembles a controller's radar screen. The container
objects look like airplanes moving across the screen. ATC Container is
available on CompuServe in forum OS2DF1, Library 2, and on ftp-os2.cdrom.com,
as atccnr.zip, and on the October Monthly Meeting Diskettes (ask for the special
Developers SIG set).
Part 2 will start with a review, and continue with such advanced container
concepts as Tree View and Direct Manipulation (Drag/Drop).
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After Meeting Notes
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At the November meeting, SIG leader Dave Briccetti, of Dave Briccetti &
Associates, continued his introduction to programming PM containers,
using an enhanced version of his "Air Traffic Control Container" sample
program. Dave showed how to program a Tree View, and how to add Direct
Manipulation (Drag/Drop) to a program. The new program files will be on
the November User Group Diskette Set. Dave also briefly demonstrated the
IPMD Debugger and the EXTRA Execution Trace Analyzer.
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OS/2 Bay Area User Group
Developers SIG
TUESDAY, October 12, 1993
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The OS/2 Bay Area User Group Developers SIG (Special Interest Group)
will have its monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 12th. The topic will be
Programming Containers and Productive Use of the IPMD Debugger and Execution
Analyzer.
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 1993
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Doors open at 6:30 for Social/Networking time before meeting.
Our meeting starting time may be delayed slightly this month. We'll
collect in the cafeteria downstairs and then go up shortly after 7
as soon as another group vacates the meeting room.
Place:IBM
1055 Joaquin Rd (Near 101 and Shoreline)
Mountain View, California
This October meeting will be held on Tuesday because Monday is a holiday.
Dave Briccetti of Dave Briccetti & Associates will discuss how to program
containers and how to use the IPMD debugger and Execution Analyzer. This
will be a hands-on, technical session with a live demonstration.
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After Meeting Notes
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For the October meeting, SIG leader Dave Briccetti, of Dave Briccetti
& Associates, gave a highly technical introduction to programming PM
containers. Dave used his new program, "Air Traffic Control Container,"
to teach container programming concepts. ATC Container has a Radar
View, which resembles a controller's radar screen. The container
objects look like airplanes moving across the screen. ATC Container
is available on CompuServe in forum OS2DF1, Library 2, and on
ftp-os2.cdrom.com, as atccnr.zip.
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OS/2 Bay Area User Group
Developers SIG
Monday, September 13, 1993
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The OS/2 Bay Area User Group Developers SIG (Special Interest Group)
will have its monthly meeting on Monday, September 13th. The topic will be
Object-Oriented Technology, Client/Server: Rapid Application Development
Approach.
Date: Monday, September 13, 1993
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Place:IBM
1055 Joaquin Rd (Near 101 and Shoreline)
Mountain View, California
John Albertoli of Easel will speak about Object-oriented (OO) technology, and
will cover the following topics:
Concepts of OO programming
Relation of OO to client/server development
Features of OO
SOM, DSOM
Enfin development under OS/2
Connectivity to Database Manager
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After Meeting Notes
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John Albertoli of Easel Corporation was the speaker at the September Developers
SIG meeting. Easel markets an object-oriented, high-level, application development
product called Enfin. John gave us overviews of object-oriented programming and
distributed computing, and then showed us how Enfin can be used to quickly develop
a sophisticated application.
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August, 1993
SOM and MetaWare DirectToSOM C++ Compiler
Tom Penello, MetaWare
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July, 1993
IBM C Set++ User Interface Class Library
Kevin Leong, IBM Corporation
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June, 1993
Workplace Shell Programming
Greg White, Lotus Corporation
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May, 1993
Quick Overview of New OS/2 2.x Controls
Dave Briccetti, Dave Briccetti & Assoc.
Sliders
Guy Scharf, Software Architects, Inc.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.3.7. First Meeting ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Developer's SIG had its first meeting April 5th at a restaurant in Mountain
View. 22 developers got acquainted over dinner and discussed OS/2 programming.
Guy and Sandy outlined the problems and fixes for the new OS/2 2.1 beta.
We decided to meet regularly on the second Monday of each month, at 7 PM,
starting in May. Future meetings will consist of programming-related
presentations, classes, discussions, and workshops. We welcome your ideas for
topics. Details about upcoming meetings will be sent automatically to everyone
on the email/fax list, and can be retrieved by others from Dave Briccetti's
voice mail system at 510 945-7565. To get on the email/fax mailing list,
contact Dave Briccetti at daveb@netcom.com, CompuServe: 74475,1072, or fax: 510
945-7436.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1.4. OS/2 Consultants Directory ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
OS/2 DEVELOPERS SIG
CONSULTANTS DIRECTORY
April 16, 1994
Consultants: Please mail your directory entry in machine-readable format
to Dave Briccetti
email: daveb@netcom.com
Diskette: P.O. Box 1713, Lafayette, CA 94549-7013
To subscribe to the email version of the Consultants Directory, send a
message to daveb@netcom.com, with the following line of text:
SUBSCRIBE CONSDIR
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Name: Dave Briccetti
Company: Dave Briccetti & Assoc.
P.O. Box 1713
Lafayette, CA 94549-7013
510 945-7565
Email: daveb@netcom.com, CIS: 74475,1072
Fax: 510 945-7436
Year established: 1983
OS/2 consulting since: 1987
Areas of expertise: C, Kernel, Presentation Manager, IPC, User Interfaces,
Some Workplace Shell
Application specialties: Scientific, Business
Current availability: Available 15 hours per week, mostly off site
Clients contact: Yes
Brokers contact: No
Dave Briccetti has been immersed in OS/2 software development since the
first $3000 Software Development Kits appeared in 1987. He has written
and ported OS/2 applications in the areas of finance, mechanical engineering,
silicon wafer fabrication, data base and communications. He is recently most
interested in C++ programming using the IBM Collection and User Interface
Class Libraries, and Workplace Shell programming.
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Name: Gregory A. Gilliss Updated: 16 Apr 1994
Company: Softek International, Inc.
P.O. Box 5475
Concord, CA 94524
510 682-5219
Email: CIS: 74023,616
Fax: 510 682-5219
Year established: 1985
OS/2 consulting since: 1989
Areas of expertise: Device Drivers, Multimedia Applications, Presentation
Manager applications, TCP/IP, User Interface design
Application specialties: Software products
Current availability: Available
Clients contact: Yes
Brokers contact: Yes
Gregory Gilliss thanks IBM for his current level of experience, since they
keep hiring him to work on their in-house OS/2 development projects. His
background includes IBM mainframe development in assembler language, client
server architecture, UNIX porting, host/workstation communications using
a variety of APIs, LAN server, relational database (SQL) programming, and
device drivers in assembler and C.
Gregory is the scheduled presenter for the May 1994 OS/2 Developers' SIG.
His talk will be on device driver development under OS/2 2.x.
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Name: Ping K. Liao Updated: 13 Apr 1994
Company: CS Computing
Address: 45 S. Park Victoria Drive, Suite 108
Milpitas, CA 95035
Phone: (408) 263-2236
Year established: 1993
OS/2 consulting since: 1993
Areas of expertise: Data Base, Presentation Manager, User Interface
Application specialties: Business, Software Development Tools
Current availability: Call to discuss
Clients contact: Yes
Brokers contact: Yes
Ping has comprehensive software development experience in multi-thread
PM applications, client/server RDBMS applications, enterprise modelling,
compiler code optimization and CASE tools. He programs in C, SQL(static
and dynamic), PL/I, PASCAL, ADA and assembly languages on OS/2, UNIX, MVS
and VM/CMS environments. He also developed and taught software
courses at San Jose State University and UC Berkeley Extension.
His consulting projects include:
- a business application that supports a server DB2 database on MVS and
several hundred client databases on OS/2.
- a DB2/2 interface package for an OS/2 2.1 PM CASE tool.
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Name: Leni Mayo
Company: Spectrum Solutions Inc.
1588 Hayes st, #6,
San Francisco, 94117.
415 567 6343
Years consulting: 7 years (UNIX, Windows, OS/2)
Years of OS/2: since 1989
Areas of expertise: GUI, kernel, internationalisation, portablility,
DDE, threads, semaphores, a little SOM & WPS
Application specialties: OO, C++, multimedia, banking+finance, tools
Current availability: Oct 5, 1993.
Clients contact: Yes
Brokers contact: Yes
Leni Mayo has worked with every major version of OS/2 since 1.0. He has
worked on teams developing internationalized OS/2 applications and ported
applications to/from other platforms. He has worked on applications using
the multimedia toolkit: MMPM/2. Most recently he has been developing
in C++ under OS/2 2.1 and Solaris (UNIX), writing SmallTalk-style Model-View
classes, and writing to a platform independent GUI class library.
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Name: Tod Morcott
Company: T. Morcott
2303 Louis Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
415-856-6771
Email:
Fax: Soon
Year established: 1964
OS/2 consulting since: 1987
Areas of expertise: Device drivers, PM programs, IPC
Application speciaties: Communications software, X25, SNA, satellite
communications, realtime process control.
Current availability: 40 hrs / week as of 12 Oct 93
Clients contact: yes
Brokers contact: yes
Received a BA from the University of California in Physics and Mathematics.
Up to 1980 most of my work was in hardware design.
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Name Chacko Neroth, Ph.D.
Company Scionix
Experience OS/2 Development and use as primary OS since 1988
Expertise Architecture, Design, Development, Project Management
OS/2 User Interface, Presentation Manager, Networking
Device Driver, Rexx, Porting
Application CAD, Programmable Logic Development Systems,
Stock Market Quotes & Analysis, Pattern Recognition,
Semiconductor Equipment Control and Data Presentation
Summary
Dr. Neroth, the Principal of Scionix, has had over 20 years of
development and engineering management experience. He has been a
senior consultant to Arthur D. Little. His most recent corporate
position was Vice President of software engineering for a very
successful high technology company. He received his Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of
California at Berkeley. He was a Research Scientist at IBM Watson
Research Center and RCA Sarnoff Research Center. As Assistant
Professor he taught courses in EECS at UC Berkeley. Lately his hobby
and work have been almost completely in OS2.
Address 737 Blue Sage Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Phone 408-732-4961
Fax 408-737-1887
CIS 71563,1113
Internet chacko.neroth@f106.n143.z1.fidonet.org
Available 10 hours/week on site, 40+ hours/week offsite
Fixed cost contract as well as time and material
Contact By clients and brokers welcome
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Name: Joel Poole
Company: Joel Poole Inc.
38 Mohawk Avenue
Corte Madera, CA 94925-1039
Phone: (415) 924-6809
Email: CIS: 71203,436
Year established: 1981
OS/2 consulting since: 1990
Areas of expertise: Presentation Manager, kernel, REXX
Application specialties: Business, utilities
Current availability: Call to discuss
Clients contact: Yes
Brokers contact: Yes
Joel has more than 25 years of experience designing and developing
applications for business. In addition to OS/2, he has extensive
experience with IBM mainframes (MVS, VM; IMS, DB2; Assembler, PL/I,
COBOL, REXX).
His most recent contract was the design and development of an OS/2 2.1 PM
application which reads product information from a bar code scanner and
periodically updates data bases on Prime, AS400 and SQL Server computers.
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Name: Sanford Rockowitz
Company: Minaret Software
1373 S. Mayfair Ave
Daly City, CA 94015
415 755-3124
Fax: 415 755-0895
Year established: 1979
OS/2 consulting since: 1991
Areas of expertise: Kernel, Cross-system porting, Data base internals,
applications, and Unicode
Current availability: Call to discuss
Clients contact: Yes
Brokers contact: No
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Name: Guy Scharf
Company: Software Architects, Inc.
2163 Jardin Drive
Mountain View, CA 94040
415 948-9186
Email: CompuServe: 76702,557
Internet: 76702.557@compuserve.com
Fax: 415 948-1620
Year established: 1981
OS/2 consulting since: 1988
Areas of expertise: Presentation Manager, User Interfaces, Workplace
Shell, Kernel
Application specialties: Business, Utilities, Database
Current availability: Call to discuss
Clients contact: Yes
Brokers contact: No
Software Architects, Inc. (SAI) develops OS/2 office automation
software and information management applications, with special
emphasis on software used by the professional in the office. SAI has
implemented electronic mail, word processing, spreadsheet, database,
financial, and audit planning products. SAI develops products for
internal use by clients or for resale.
SAI provides a full range of services from initial specification
through implementation, modification, and maintenance. Consulting
and training services for OS/2 developers are also available.
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Name: Craig Shaver
Company: Productivity Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 60458
Sunnyvale, CA 94088
415 390-0654
Email: craig@progroup.com
Fax: 415 390-0717
Year established: 1980
OS/2 consulting since: 1992
Areas of expertise: Client/Server, TCP/IP, DB2/2, Smalltalk/V PM,
CSet++, SQA, ISO 9000
Application specialties: Business
Current availability: Yes, by appointment
Clients contact: Yes
Brokers contact: No
Consulting projects range from a telemarketing application at Pacific
Bell Telephone targeted at 2000 seats using Smalltalk and Sybase
SQL Server, to helping Abbott Labs meet ISO 9000 requirements for C++
software used in their realtime blood analysis equipment. Expertise
also with Informix, UNIX, X Windows Motif, and MS Windows.
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Name: Neil Waldhauer
Company: Surf City Scientific
130 Serra Court
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
408 427-1529
Email: zonker@well.sf.ca.us
Fax: 408 427-1529
Year established: 1993
OS/2 consulting since: 1993
Areas of expertise: specifications for programming projects,
scientific programming, Presentation Manager,
multi-programmer build environments, Netware,
VMS
Application specialties: Chemical laboratory automation, Networks
Current availability: Call to discuss
Clients contact: Yes
Brokers contact: Yes
Neil has 15 years of experience writing programs for business and
scientific users. He has worked on IBM mainframes, VAX minicomputers and
PCs running OS/2. He has been a Novell Netware network administrator.
He has been the lead programmer on several teams writing software to
control High Performance Liquid Chromatographs.
Neil has a BS Chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His most
recent contract was to design chemical automation software for an
instrument manufacturer.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2. Enterprise Computing SIG ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Enterprise Computing SIG
The Enterprise Computing SIG focuses on integrating OS/2 into complex computing
environments, with meeting topics such as the Distributed Computing Environment
for OS/2, IBM's networking strategy, and a look at large scale client/server
applications. The SIG meets the third Monday of each month at IBM's downtown
San Francisco offices. Meeting time is 7:00 PM. Meetings are currently free
and are open to the public.
Location:
IBM
425 Market Street, 22nd Floor
San Francisco
Directions and Building Access
For more information, contact SIG co-chairs Steve Burton CompuServe 71542,1053,
Phone: (510) 686-1408, and Larry Baptist Phone: (510) 675-2466.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2.1. Meeting Facilities ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Meeting Facilities are provided by IBM and Keith Marks.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2.2. Upcoming Meetings ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Here is information about upcoming meetings of the Enterprise SIG.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2.2.1. June 1994 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING SIG JUNE MEETING
_________________________________________________________________
FlowMark - Automating the Tasks of the Enterprise
Mark Armstrong, IBM FlowMark Specialist
Monday, June 20, 1994
7:00 P.M.
IBM Building, 22nd Floor
425 Market Street
San Francisco, CA
_________________________________________________________________
On Monday, June 20, the OS/2 Bay Area User Group Enterprise Computing SIG will
hold its monthly meeting.
Workflow is being used to reengineer and automate the workplace. Enabled by
OS/2 Client/Server technology, workflow is used to automatically identify what
tasks need to be done next and present them to workers located throughout the
enterprise. It also is used to dynamically control the automatic operation of
sequences of programs.
FlowMark is IBM's object-oriented workflow system. It includes a Prolog AI
component used to simulate its operation.
See Also:
o Enterprise Computing SIG General Information
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2.3. Prior Meetings ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Here is information about prior meetings of the Enterprise SIG.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2.3.1. May 1994 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING SIG MAY MEETING
_________________________________________________________________
Reengineering the Enterprise with OS/2
Firemans Fund
Monday, May 16, 1994
7:00 P.M.
IBM Building, 22nd Floor
425 Market Street
San Francisco, CA
_________________________________________________________________
On Monday, May 16, the OS/2 Bay Area User Group Enterprise Computing SIG will
hold its monthly meeting. Developers from Firemans Fund will describe how they
are converting key business applications from the mainframe to OS/2 LANs. The
very successful reengineering project has already seen many applications
converted to operate on a nationwide LAN, with considerable reduction in
operational costs. Using internally developed system support tools they
remotely distribute and maintain their system.
See Also:
o Enterprise Computing SIG General Information
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2.3.2. April 1994 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Enterprise Computing SIG will hold its April meeting on Monday, April 18.
Walt Harris, IBM Consultant, will tell us about developing database
applications using IBM's DB2/2 database management system.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2.3.3. March 1994 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
On March 21, Amarjeet Garewal of Bank of America discussed his experiences
developing a state-of-the-art, object-oriented client/server application.
Amerjeet described how they developed the application and how they introduced
it into a large organization that was organized around older technologies.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Library ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The OS/2 Bay Area User Group has a library of materials available for members
to check out. Currently, materials include OS/2 books and videotapes of
January's talk by Cliff Reeves and of David Barnes' presentation at the Houston
OS/2 vs. NT shootout. You can check out materials for a one month period at
the monthly meeting.
The librarian is Dean Klingler.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Group Leaders ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
These people play important roles in running the organization.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1. Sanford Rockowitz (President, Co-Founder, Board) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
o Program*
o Membership
o Publicity
Minaret Software
Internet: rockowitz@acm.org
Phone: (415) 755-3124
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Sanford Rockowitz is president of Minaret Software. He has over 15 years
experience in computing, with particular expertise in DBMS development. He has
worked with both mainframes and microcomputers, and is currently investigating
strategies for their interoperability.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.2. Guy Scharf (Treasurer, Co-Founder, Board) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees: (* = Chair)
o Newsletter*
o Program
o Membership
o Publicity
Software Architects, Inc.
CompuServe: 76702,557
Phone: (415) 948-9186
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Guy Scharf is the president of Software Architects Inc., an OS/2 consulting
company. Guy spoke at the February 1994 meeting of the Developers SIG about
good PM programming techniques.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.3. Dave Briccetti (Co-Founder, Board, Developers SIG) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
o Developers SIG*
o Program
o Publicity*
o Monthly Diskettes*
Dave Briccetti & Associates
P.O. Box 1713
Lafayette, CA 94549-7013
510 945-7565
Fax: 945-7436
CompuServe: 74475,1072
Internet: daveb@netcom.com
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Dave Briccetti is the owner of Dave Briccetti and Associates, and is an OS/2
programming consultant. Dave started programming professionally in 1978, and
started his own company to do PC programming consulting in 1983. In 1987 he
attended the Microsoft OS/2 Developers Conference in Anaheim, CA and has been
doing OS/2 programming ever since.
Currently, Dave is working on OS/2 software for quality control of silicon
wafer fabrication, and an OS/2 program to support an art exhibit, which uses
speech recognitition (IBM Continuous Software Series) and videodisc (Multimedia
Presentation Manager/2).
Dave enjoys teaching kids about computers. He taught summer sessions of
computer classes at the Feather River Oakland Camp in Quincy, CA for 4 years,
and will be teaching programming for kids in grades 4-10 at Diablo Valley
College College for Kids program for the second year this summer in Pleasant
Hill, CA.
Dave has recently expanded his business to offer computer programming private
lessons to students in grades 4-12 in his office in Lafayette, CA.
Playing volleyball, bike riding, scuba diving, and flying airplanes are
favorite pastimes.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.4. Cathie Dager (Board) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Cathie Burke Dager founded and continues to coordinate the REXX Symposium, the
annual technical conference for REXX developers and users. She is the
president of Computer Directions of Palo Alto, California, and is a senior
scientific programmer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. At Computer
Directions she specializes in PC marketing, software sales, and education. At
SLAC she now tests software, troubleshoots, and teaches in the PC area as she
did during the previous decade for VM/CMS. She also coordinates the SLAC PC
Support Group and serves on steering committees for the San Francisco OS/2 Bay
Area User Group and for the international REXX Language Association (RexxLA).
Ms. Dager's computing career began in 1966 after she received a B.Sc. honors
degree in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Arlington. In addition to
classes she has designed and taught for SLAC, she has developed and taught
courses for CERN, for San Jose State University, and for the Stanford
University experimental microcomputer facility.
She is proud of the following achievements: reaching the glorious age of 50;
staying married to the same wonderful man, Terry, for 25 years; and having two
terrific offspring, Joel in college and Alecia in high school.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.5. Paul Cardinale (Board) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees: (* = Chair)
o Membership*
o Trade shows
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Paul Cardinale is a Bay Area native with a BS in Physics from San Jose State
University. He frequently works on embedded systems, has done software test
engineering, and has been a software janitor (cleaning up programming messes).
He is teaching himself PM programming.
Paul is single and enjoys swimming, hiking, bike riding, and photography
(including 3-D).
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.6. Githogori (Board) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees: (* = Chair)
o Program
o Membership
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Githogori is an OS/2 consultant. He spoke at the April, 1994 meeting of the
Developers SIG about adding online IPF help to OS/2 PM applications.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.7. Steve Burton (Enterprise Computing SIG) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
o Enterprise Computing SIG*
CompuServe 71542,1053
Phone: (510) 686-1408
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Steve Burton is an experienced networking specialist. With Larry Baptist, he
chairs the Enterprise Computing SIG..
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.8. Larry Baptist (Enterprise Computing SIG) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
o Enterprise Computing SIG*
Phone: (510) 675-2466
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Larry Baptist works for a major financial institution in the Bay Area,
developing client/server systems. He's a dad, plays a mediocre game of tennis,
and every other morning, doggedly runs around the neighborhood in the dark,
trying to keep his weight down.
With Steve Burton, Larry chairs the Enterprise Computing SIG..
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.9. Ron Lautmann ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
o Programming
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Ron Lautmann serves on the Programming Committee.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. Volunteers ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Many volunteers play important roles in running the organization. This is a
partial list.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.1. Ed Brink (Membership Database) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees: (* = Chair)
o Membership
Ed can be found at 409-1789@mcimail.com, 76555,422 on CompuServe,
ebrink@cs.stanford.edu, and FVDF98A@prodigy.com, in that order of preference.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Ed Brink is a retired IBM programmer, in the business since 1956. He also
writes articles from time to time.
Ed's company, Ed Brink and Associates, Inc., is a low-key consulting firm
supporting mostly non-profit groups, focusing on getting them up and running so
they don't continue to spend large amounts on outside help.
Ed is a member of the Software Entrepreneurs' Forum and the OS/2 Bay Area Users
Group, and has MS degrees in computer science from Syracuse and Stanford. He
is currently focused on OS/2 standalone power-user and Paradox issues. He
doesn't do Windows if he can help it.
Ed manages the membership database. Requests for changes to your membership
information (email address, etc.) should be mailed to him.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.2. Earl Goetze (Flyer Production) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
o Flyer production/mailing
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Earl Goetze handles printing and mailing the monthly flyers.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.3. Dean Klingler (Librarian, Team OS/2) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Dean Klingler is our group librarian, and an active Team OS/2 member.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.4. Robert Reynolds ("Get the Most out of OS/2" Diskettes) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
o Monthly Diskettes
robber@netcom.com
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Robert Reynolds creates the Get the Most out of OS/2 collection on our monthly
Diskettes.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.5. Cal Schrotenboer (Product Sales) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
o Monthly Diskettes
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Cal Schrotenboer sells diskettes and CD-ROMs and for many months helped to
create the monthly mailing.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.6. Dave Kuhlman ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Dummy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
Dave Kuhlman
Reify, Redwood City, CA
Internet: dkuhlman@netcom.com
Compuserve: 72470,116
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Dave Kuhlman has been helpful in organizing special events.
Dave Kuhlman is interested in structured data and information. He is working
to use digraphs, trees, and other data structures to implement knowledge
representation applications. Dave uses compiler-compilers and parser generators
to write applications that compile/translate structured text information into
binary representations of structured objects. He writes de-compilers that
translate the binary representations of structured objects into text
representation.
Dave wants to make code generators a more usable and commonly available
technology.
Dave is looking for ways to implement graphical applications that enable users
to directly browse and manipulate structured objects. Dave is looking for ways
to enable end users to program operations for use on structured objects.
Dave works as a C/C++ programmer, but is seeking a better way.
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Committees/SIGs: (* = Chair)
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Barbara Beatty has been helpful in staffing meeting admission tables.
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The World Wide Web is a large-scale networked hypertext information system
started by CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva,
Switzerland. Hypertext is text that is not necessarily linear. The text
contains links to other texts or to graphics, videos, or sound. Links are
words/phrases designated in a color and/or by underlining depending on your
browser. You select a link by clicking on the highlighted word or pressing the
return key, again depending on your browser. The word that indicates the link
then either changes color or the underlining becomes broken. The same link may
be included in multiple documents.
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Directions to SLAC: Take the Sand Hill Road East exit off I-280. The second
traffic light after the one at the interchange is the entrance to SLAC. Turn
right. Stop at the guard house and tell the guard that you are going to the
OS/2 Bay Area User Group meeting. The Auditorium is in the central area of the
complex and is the building straight ahead of you when you are at the guard
house.
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Take the Shoreline Boulevard North exit off US-101. After the traffic lights
at the interchange, the second traffic light is Charleston Road. Turn left on
Charleston, then make an immediate left on Joaquin. 1055 Joaquin is the first
building on your left. We meet in the Elsinore conference room on the second
floor.
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Ira Forman Information
Dr. Ira R. Forman is a member of IBM's Object Technology Products Group, which
has produced the SOMobjects Toolkit. Forman received his Ph.D. in Computer
Science from the University of Maryland, where he studied under Harlan Mills.
Forman's specialties are object-oriented distributed systems and object
composition.
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Abstract of Ira Forman Talk
Metaclass programming offers new opportunities for factoring and composing
software. This implies greater reusability and reduced costs. In SOM, the IBM
System Object Model, a class is a run-time object that defines the behavior of
its instances by creating an instance method table. Because classes are
objects, their behavior is defined by other classes (called metaclasses). The
central issue addressed in this talk is raising the level of programming by
composing metaclasses. The standard notion of inheritance-based subclassing
represents a union-like operation for composition of class implementations.
There is no reason to believe that one such operation is sufficient for all the
possible compositions that need to be performed. With the approach described
here, significant object properties can be isolated using before/after
metaclasses; subsequently, these properties can be composed and reused.
Linguistically, a property is often represented by an adjective while a class
is represented by a noun. Composition of metaclasses should be as easy as
putting a sequence of adjectives in front of a noun.
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425 Market is at the corner of Fremont and Market. Enter on the Fremont side of
the building and sign in at the security console on the ground floor. Then
take an elevator to the 22nd floor, where you will need to sign the meeting
attendance roster and will receive a temporary "IBM visitor" name tag.
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