TeamJava member
Starflight Corporation/Jon Roland

Rates: (please inquire directly)

Services provided as a Company

Looking for fulltime work

Programming background

Have written more than 200 major apps for various
business, government, and academic functions:
Accounting, finance, scheduling, manufacturing
management, task management, process optimization.
Also written various utilities, enhanced and
ported various languages and operating systems.

Languages background

C, C++, Forth, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Java,APL, LISP,
Prolog, Q'Nial, Ada, Pascal, Postscript, Assembler.
Progress, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Ingres,
Empress, Unify, ZIM, MagicPC, XBase, R:Base, Paradox.
Gemstone, Ontos, Poet, Versant, MDBS Titanium.
Delphi, VBasic, Powerbuilder, KnowledgePro.
DB2, SQL/DS, IMS, COBOL, RPG, FORTRAN, PL/I, Focus.
AutoCAD, FastCAD, DesignCAD.

Software-environment background

MS MFC, X-lib, OLE, OCX, CORBA, GNU lib, vi,
RCS, SVCS, make, imake, Korn shell

Hardware background

Intel PC, Sun Sparc, HP 9000, IBM RS/6000, Silicon
Graphics, DEC, Data General, NCR Tower, Acer/Altos,
MacIntosh, PowerPC Mac, Z-80/S-100

OS background

Unix (SCO, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, DG/UX), MS DOS,
MS Win 3.1, MS Win 95, MS Win NT, OS/2, MVS,
VM/CMS, VMS, Mac 7, CP/M

Miscellaneous technology background

TCP/IP, NFS, Novell, X-Windows, PPP

Tools available - SOFTWARE

All mentioned elsewhere.

Tools available - HARDWARE

PCs running Win 3.11, Win 95, Win NT, SCO ODT.
Sun Sparc.

Tools available - NET

Several providers.
Multiple WWW sites.
Email, FTP, Newsreaders, Netscape, Telnet, IRC,
Digitalk, Videoconferencing.

Predictions for Java (17 - November - 96)

It will take a significant place as a development
tool, but it will not be the complete solution,
especially for large, complex apps and large files,
due to performance. There will continue to be a
need for clientside apps optimized for performance.