About the Author
Joe Mayo started his software development career in 1986, working on an RCA Spectrum 70 mainframe computer, programming in assembly language where input was via Hollerith card, output was a line printer, and the debugging experience was a light panel where you had to push buttons to load registers and step through commands. Since then, Joe has worked with various
About the Technical Editor
Roy Ogborn has worn almost every hat one time or another during his interesting and continuing career in the Information Technology field. He was systems manager and developer for Texaco Europe Research, Inc., in Moscow, USSR, during the attempted coup. Back in the United States, he has designed and implemented a GIS system for managing oil and gas wells and leases, and has architected and implemented an enterprise workflow system that managed the business process of taking wells from conception to completion. He architected a system for Forest Oil in Denver that linked disparate accounting, lease management, and production tracking systems for business intelligence for senior executives’ daily and strategic decisions. Recently he architected and designed a
