Della Martin
Della (right), along with co-authors Tamar
Granor and Ted Roche.Della Martin has worked on some of the
most unusual FoxPro and Visual FoxPro applications. She got her
start writing a recruiting database for Duke Basketball while
attending Duke University. She has a degree with a double major
in Design and History.Continuing in the line of non-traditional
database applications, Della worked for Woolpert, an
architectural and engineering firm, where she specialized in GIS
work for such diverse applications as water distribution systems,
military master planning, oil well evacuation plans, and facility
management programs. She moved on to the University of Tennessee
to work on a military logistics application, JFAST, perhaps the
most well known VFP application in the world. At nearly every
DevCon since 1994, attendees have seen this cutting-edge
application, which includes sophisticated briefing and analysis
tools developed by Della using Automation with many Microsoft
products.Della now works for TakeNote Technologies (www.takenote.com),
a Developer's Choice Award winning training and consulting firm,
as a developer and instructor. Della has written for FoxPro
Advisor and FoxTalk magazine, and served as a judge for the 1998
and 1999 Visual FoxPro Excellence Awards. She speaks at various
conferences, including the Great Lakes Great Developers Workshop,
VFP DevConnections, and the Essential Fox conference. The
Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro is her second book; she
co-authored Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro, with
Tamar Granor. Della lives in Cary, North Carolina, with her
husband and two children. You can reach Della at dmartin2@nc.rr.com.