About the Author

Joseph D. Booth has been programming since 1981 in a variety of languages including BASIC, Clipper, FoxPro, Delphi, Classic ASP, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Visual C#, and the .NET Framework. He has also worked in various database platforms, including DBASE, Paradox, Oracle, and SQL Server.

He is the author of GitHub Succinctly, Accounting Succinctly, Regular Expressions Succinctly, Visual Studio Add-Ins Succinctly, Natural Language Processing Succinctly, Angular Succinctly, and SQL Server Metadata Succinctly from Syncfusion, as well as six books on Clipper and FoxPro programming, network programming, and client/server development with Delphi. He has also written several third-party developer tools, including CLIPWKS, which allows developers to programmatically create and read native Lotus and Excel spreadsheet files from Clipper applications.

Joe has worked for a number of companies, including Yprime, Sperry Univac, MCI-WorldCom, Ronin, Harris Interactive, Thomas Jefferson University, People Metrics, and Investor Force. He is one of the primary authors of Results for Research (market-research software), PEPSys (industrial-distribution software), and a key contributor to AccuBuild (accounting software for the construction industry).

He has a background in accounting (Accounting Succinctly), having worked as a controller for several years in the industrial distribution field, but his real passion is computer programming.

In his spare time, Joe is an avid tennis player. He also practices yoga and martial arts, and plays with his grandkids, Blaire and Kaia. You can visit his website for more information.