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Tamar has been programming computers since the mid-'70's and working with
databases and Fox products since the late '80's. Here's a look at her educational background and some professional highlights.
Education Certification
Publications Presentations
Teaching
Undergraduate
B.A., Math, University of Pennsylvania,
1978.
Graduate
M.S.E., Computer
and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1981.
Ph.D., Computer and Information
Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1986.
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Microsoft Certified Professional
Designing and
Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual FoxPro (70-156)
Designing and
Implementing Distributed Applications with Microsoft Visual FoxPro (70-155)
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Tamar has been writing about Fox products for a long time. Here are some
highlights.
Books Magazines Other
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Making Sense of Sedna and SP2 (with Cathy Pountney, Doug Hennig, Rick
Schummer, Toni M. Feltman and Bo Durban), dPFUG, 2010. |
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Taming Visual FoxPro's SQL: Real World Data Solutions for VFP, Hentzenwerke
Publishing, 2005.
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| What's New In
Nine: Visual FoxPro's Latest Hits (with Doug Hennig, Rick Schummer, Toni
M. Feltman and Jim Slater), Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2005.
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| OOoSwitch:
501 Things You Wanted to Know About Switching to OpenOffice.org from
Microsoft Office, Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2003.
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| What's
New in Visual FoxPro 8.0 (with Doug Hennig), Hentzenwerke Publishing,
2003.
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| Hacker's
Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0 (with Ted Roche, Doug Hennig and Della
Martin), Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2002.
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| What's
New in Visual FoxPro 7 (with Doug Hennig and Kevin McNeish, edited by
Alex Weider), Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2001.
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| Microsoft
Office Automation with Visual FoxPro (with Della Martin, edited by
Ted Roche), Hentzenwerke Publishing, 2000.
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| Hacker's
Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0 (with Ted Roche, edited by Doug Hennig),
Hentzenwerke Publishing, 1998.
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| Hacker's
Guide to Visual FoxPro 3.0 (with Ted Roche, edited by Drew Speedie),
Addison-Wesley, 1996. |
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| Editor of FoxPro
Advisor, 1994-2000. Technical Editor both before and after being editor. |
| Co-author of the Advisor Answers column in FoxPro Advisor from the
second issue until early 2008 (with, in chronological order, Steve Freides, Ted Roche, Christof
Lange, and Pamela Thalacker). |
| Author of a number of articles (including many of the monthly Editor's View
columns) in FoxPro Advisor. Here's a partial list of
articles. You can also look up the more recent ones in the
Advisor
Articles Database. |
| Author of a number of articles in
FoxRockX. These are also listed here. |
| Author of several articles in FoxTalk
and the now-defunct FoxPro User Journal. |
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Other
Tamar has been speaking at FoxPro-related conferences since 1993, and at User
Groups for even longer. Check the News page for details of upcoming
appearances. Tamar also served as Technical Content Manager for the 1997-1999 Visual
FoxPro DevCons.
Materials from a number of these sessions are available here.
Conferences User
Groups Speaking
Availability
2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002
2001 2000 1999
1998 1997
1996 1995
1994 1993
2010
| Southwest Fox 2010, Gilbert, AZ, October, 2010
 | Collections: Managing Information the Object-Oriented Way |
| Office Automation Tips, Tricks and Traps |
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2009
| Southwest Fox 2009, Mesa, AZ, October, 2009
| Getting Your Head around Business Objects |
| Top 10 (or more) Reasons to Use the Toolbox |
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2008
| Southwest Fox 2008, Mesa, AZ, October, 2008
| Practical Tips for Working with Existing Applications |
| We Used to Do It That Way, but ... |
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| German DevCon, Frankfurt, Germany, November, 2008
| Making the Most of the Toolbox |
| Solving Common Problems with VFP's SQL |
| We Used to Do It That Way, but ... |
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2007
| Southwest Fox 2007, Mesa, AZ, October, 2007
| The Why and How of Test Data |
| Making the Most of the Toolbox |
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| Advisor DevCon, Anaheim, CA, May, 2007
| Best Practices for User Interfaces |
| Tips and Tricks for Working with Existing Code |
| Solving Common Problems with VFP's SQL |
| The Why and How of Test Data |
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2006
| Southwest Fox, Tempe, AZ, October, 2006
| Solving Common Problems with VFP's SQL |
| Using the VFP Debugger Effectively |
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| DevCon 2006, Phoenix, AZ, August, 2006
| Customize the Property Sheet |
| Solving Common Problems with VFP's SQL |
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| Great Lakes Great Database Workshop, Milwaukee, WI, April, 2006
| Best Practices for User Interfaces |
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2005
| Southwest Fox 2005, Tempe, AZ, October, 2005
| Creating Helpful User Interfaces |
| Customizing the Property Sheet |
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| DevTeach 2005, Montreal, PQ, Canada, June, 2005
| Customizing the Property Sheet |
| Putting VFP's Task Pane Manager to Work |
| Using VFP 9's SQL Commands |
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| DevCon 2005, Las Vegas, NV, June, 2005
| Pre-conference seminar: Using VFP's SQL Commands |
| Using the VFP Debugger Effectively |
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2004
| DevCon 2004, Las Vegas, NV, September-October, 2004
| Using VFP's SQL Commands in VFP 9 |
| Putting VFP's Task Pane Manager to Work |
| Making the Most of the Toolbox |
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| DevTeach 2004, Montreal, PQ, Canada, June, 2004
| Creating Helpful User Interfaces |
| Using VFP's SQL Commands in VFP 9 |
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| DevEssentials 2004, Kansas City, MO, June 2004
| Office Automation Beyond the Basics |
| Using VFP's SQL Commands in VFP 9 |
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2003
| DevCon 2003, Palm Springs, CA, June, 2003
| Making the Most of the Toolbox |
| Advanced Office Automation |
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| DevTeach 2003, Montreal, PQ, Canada, May, 2003
| Making the Most of the Toolbox |
| Office Automation Beyond the Basics |
| Putting the Task Pane Manager to Work |
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| EssentialFox 2003, Kansas City, MO, April, 2003
| Building Queries in Visual FoxPro 8 |
| Making the Most of the Toolbox |
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2002
| Great Lakes Great Database Workshop 2002, Milwaukee, WI, November, 2002
| Building Queries in Visual FoxPro |
| Using the Visual FoxPro Debugger |
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| 13th Annual Visual FoxPro DevCon, Fort Lauderdale, FL, September-October,
2002
| Building Queries in Visual FoxPro |
| Using the Visual FoxPro Debugger |
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| EssentialFox 2002, Kansas City, MO, April, 2002
| Using the Debugger Effectively |
| New Language Features in VFP 7 |
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2001
| Great Lakes Great Database Workshop 2001, Milwaukee, WI, October, 2001
| Developing Applications for Everyone |
| Customizing VFP's Tools |
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| 12th Annual Visual FoxPro DevCon, San Diego, CA, September, 2001
| Developing Applications for Everyone |
| Customizing VFP's Tools |
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| VFP DevCon Connections 2001, Orlando, FL, May, 2001
| Developing Applications for Users with Physical Challenges |
| New Language Features in VFP 7 |
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| FoxTeach 2001, Toronto, ON, April, 2001
| New Language Features in VFP 7 |
| You Need Arrays |
| Automating Microsoft Word |
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2000
| Great Lakes Great Database Workshop 2000, Milwaukee, WI, November, 2000
| New Language Features in VFP 7 |
| You Need Arrays |
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| 11th Annual Visual FoxPro DevCon, Miami, FL, September, 2000
| Getting Started with Office Automation |
| Automating Microsoft Word |
| New Language Features in VFP 7 |
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| Czech Visual FoxPro DevCon, Prague, Czech Republic, June, 2000
| Getting Started with Office Automation |
| Automating Microsoft Word |
| Making the Most of SQL-Select |
| Keynote: The Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards |
| Workshop: Office Automation |
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| VFP DevCon Connections 2000, New Orleans, LA, May, 2000
| Getting Started with Office Automation |
| Automating Microsoft Word |
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1999
| Third Annual Southern California Visual FoxPro Conference, Costa Mesa, CA,
August, 1999
| Visual FoxPro Quirks |
| Driving Word and Excel from Visual FoxPro |
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| Visual FoxPro DevCon 99, Palm Springs, CA, June, 1999
| Making the Most of SQL-Select |
| Driving Word and Excel from Visual FoxPro |
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1998
| Second Annual Southern California Visual FoxPro Conference, Costa Mesa,
CA, August, 1998
| New Language Features in VFP 6 |
| Using SQL-Select Effectively |
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| Visual FoxPro DevCon 98, Orlando, FL, May, 1998
| New Language Features in VFP 6 |
| Using Visual FoxPro's SQL |
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1997
| Visual FoxPro DevCon 97, San Diego, CA, September 1997
| Using SQL-Select Effectively in Visual FoxPro 5 |
| Designing User Interfaces that Work |
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| First Annual Southwest Regional FoxPro Spring Conference, Los Angeles, CA,
May, 1997
| Combos and Lists-The Forgotten Controls |
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| FoxTeach, Toronto, ON, May, 1997
| Designing Usable User Interfaces |
| Using SQL-Select Effectively in Visual FoxPro 5 |
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| Great Lakes Great Database Workshop, Milwaukee, WI, March, 1997
| The Right Control for the Job |
| Using SQL-Select Effectively in Visual FoxPro 5 |
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1996
| 1996 Microsoft Visual FoxPro Developer Conference (DevCon 96), Scottsdale,
AZ, October, 1996 |
| Fourth Annual Mid-Atlantic Database Solutions Workshop, Richmond, VA,
June, 1996 |
| FoxTeach, Toronto, ON, May, 1996 |
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1995
| Great Lakes Great Database Workshop, Milwaukee, WI, November, 1995 |
| Advisor FoxPro Developers Conference, Phoenix, AZ, October, 1995 |
| FoxTeach, Toronto, ON, June, 1995 |
| Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Database Solutions Workshop, Chesapeake, VA,
May, 1995 |
| 1995 Microsoft FoxPro International Developer Conference (DevCon 95), San
Diego, CA, January, 1995 |
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1994
| FoxTeach '94, Toronto, ON, June, 1994 |
| International Database Interchange, Palm Springs, CA, April, 1994 |
| International Database Interchange, Toronto, ON, March, 1994 |
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1993
| Fifth Annual Microsoft FoxPro International Developer Conference (DevCon
93), Orlando, FL, October, 1993 |
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Tamar has spoken to many FoxPro user groups including the ones in:
| Philadelphia (her home town) |
| San Diego |
| Orange County, CA |
| Los Angeles |
| Dallas |
| Harrisburg, PA |
| Central New Jersey |
| Detroit |
| Chicago |
| Boston |
| New York City |
| Washington, DC |
| Rochester, NY |
| the United Kingdom |
| Frankfurt, Germany |
| Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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Tamar is usually happy to speak to FoxPro User Groups at no cost when she passes their
way. In some cases, she may be willing to make a special trip if the group can
cover travel expenses.
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Tamar returned to the University of
Pennsylvania in January, 2004 as a lecturer in the School
of Engineering and Applied Science. In 2004 and 2005, she taught several
courses related to writing and speaking on technical topics, including:
| EAS 009: Critical Writing Seminar: The Design of Everyday Things |
| EAS 200: Effective Communication for Engineers |
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