Victor A Reinhart

My favorite sport is artistic roller skating, where I act as the tabulator. It's a wonderful sport, a bit like ice skating, except that most events are skated on quad skates (four wheels in a rectangular layout). We do freestyle (with jumps and spins), figure skating (on the circles), and dance. A few of us do inline skating, too. We had a tabulating program: a Visual Basic 3 application. It did its job, but the score sheets which it printed had only the skaters' numbers, not their names. Data was kept in flat files. Skaters and their parents would crowd around the score sheets once we posted them, trying to figure out how they did. The font was small, but you could figure it out with a little patience. We never had a scoreboard for this sport. There are many scoreboard... (more)

PowerBuilder and UPS Shipping

Does your shipping department have these problems? Extra charges due to incorrect addresses? Difficulty tracking packages? How about duplicateentries? If your shipping department is really ancient, you may even have rolls of pre-printed UPS shipping labels. Here’s how you can seamlessly integrate your printing function using PowerBuilder. You could buy a third-party product, and that... (more)

An Electronic File Cabinet in PowerBuilder

Even the best physical filing systems have drawbacks: the cost of storage space, the need to pay rent for records that have to be kept off-site, the time it takes to locate and refile documents, and, of course, the time wasted finding lost or misfiled documents. You might even have a designated "librarian" who is the only person allowed to file documents. If you store microfilm, it becom... (more)