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, and Visual C#. He has also worked in various database platforms, including DBASE, Paradox, Oracle, and SQL-Server from version 6.5 up through SQL 2012.

He is the author of six computer books on Clipper and FoxPro programming, Network Programming, and Client/Server development with Delphi. He also wrote several third-party developer tools, including CLIPWKS, which allowed the ability to programmatically create and read native Lotus and Excel spreadsheet files from Clipper applications.

Joe has worked for a number of companies including 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 as well, having worked as a controller for several years in the industrial distribution field, although his real passion is computer programming.

In his spare time, Joe is an avid tennis player and a crazy soccer player (he plays goalie). He also practices yoga and martial arts (holding a brown belt in Judo).