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2002 MVPs
2001 MVPs
West Wind Technologies is honoring it's
Most Valuable
Professionals
with an MVP award.
These individuals have provided outstanding service
to the West Wind Community either via the message board, or via
contributions to the tools or by writing, mentoring or otherwise
helping out the developer community as a whole. West Wind MVPs
receive a full one year subscription to all West Wind Products, will
be listed as MVP's in a special section of the West Wind Web Site
and last but not least will receive a free T-Shirt <s>.
Congratulations to the 2002 West Wind MVPs Darrell
Gardener, Marty Cantwell and Paul Mrozowski.
Darrell Gardener
Darrell has been an active supporter of the Web Connection
and Visual FoxPro community through his hosting, both actively promoting Web
Connection as well as offering excellent Web hosting services to
Visual FoxPro developers through his company
DNG Solutions. Through his experience with hosting and
network issues he's also sharing a wealth of information on
installation and configuration for Web Connection on a regular
basis. You can contact Darrell by email at:
darrellg@dngsolutions.net.
Marty Cantwell
Marty has been very active in providing feedback on many support
tools and integration issues with Web Connection as well as
providing lots of information on network management and security
issues with Web Connection. His long and knowledgable posts on the
message board are used by many in our community as reference
material on a variety of software and hardware topics. You can
contact Marty via email at:
marty@customsoftworks.com.
Paul Mrozowski
Paul has been very active on the message board as well helping out
developers on many advanced development issues. Paul covers a wide
range of topics and provides many useful side comments that are
always well thought out and useful even for people lurking in on
threads. He's also been writing up a number of related white
papers and has been providing spur of the moment tools for
download by FoxPro developers. You can contact Paul via email
at:
paulm@rcs-solutions.com.
Final results for the 2002 MVPs
| Nominee | First Choice | Second Choice | Rating |
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| Darrell Gardener | 22 | 8 | 52 |
| Marty Cantwell | 15 | 14 | 44 |
| Paul Mrozowski | 14 | 15 | 43 |
| Barbara Peisch | 9 | 23 | 41 |
| Michael Hogan | 13 | 13 | 39 |
Nominations are based on suggestions from West Wind
Technologies and to user feedback on the message. If you want to
nominate MVP's for the next round you can do so in the Chatter
section of the message board.
Our 2001 MVPs who are carried forward to be this
year's MVPs as well are:
Randy Pearson
Randy Pearson is a Partner with Cycla Corporation
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Randy has been developing FoxPro and
Visual FoxPro solutions for over 11 years. Randy has spent the
last 4 years developing web-based applications using West Wind Web
Connection, and now spends part of his time mentoring Web
Connection developers. Randy is also the author of the well-known
public domain CodeBlock program (FoxTalk, December 1994). Randy
can be reached by Email at
randyp@cycla.com.
Lauren Clarke
Lauren is principal of
Cornerstone Systems
Northwest Inc. a firm concerned with building web-based
data-collection and knowledge management tools for researchers. He
also enjoys working on interesting projects with fellow Web
Connect developers from time to time. With a background in
mathematics and solid object oriented design skills, Lauren can
provide high-level developer support for complex projects. He can
be contacted at
lauren@cornerstonenw.com.
Keith Hackett
Keith Hackett is a principal in Hackware, Inc., a
software development firm based in Edmond, Oklahoma. He has been
developing software with Visual Foxpro and its predecessors,
Foxpro and Foxbase +, since the Fox software's inception in the
mid-eighties. More recently, he has been developing e-commerce and
e-business solutions using West Wind's Web Connection with both
VFP and MS SQL Server 7 data platforms. Keith has gained
significant experience with and knowledge of Web Connection 's
scripting model and also with it's DHTML form rendering. However,
Keith's most well-known contribution to the support site is
probably his experience and knowledge of Javascript under both
Netscape and Internet Explorer. He can be contacted at:
kdhackett@cox.net.
Thank you for all of your support to the
community!!!
Rick Strahl
West Wind Technologies
The West Wind Team
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