The Authors

Marcia Akins Kramek

Marcia Akins is a FoxPro MVP, independent consultant and joint owner of Tightline Computers Inc. based in Akron, Ohio. A veteran conference speaker, she has published widely and is well known for her contributions to Foxite ( http://www.foxite.com), Tek-Tips (http://www.tek-tips.com) and the Universal Thread (http://www.Universalthread.com). Email: marcia@tightlinecomputers.com

Tamar E. Granor

Tamar E. Granor, Ph.D., is the owner of Tomorrow's Solutions, LLC. She has developed and enhanced numerous Visual FoxPro applications for businesses and other organizations. She currently focuses on working with other developers through consulting and subcontracting. Tamar is the author or co-author of nine books including the award-winning Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro. Her most recent books are Taming Visual Fox-Pro's SQL and What's New in Nine: Visual FoxPro's Latest Hits. Her books are available from Hentzenwerke Publishing (www.hentzenwerke.com). Tamar is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a Microsoft Support Most Valuable Professional. Tamar frequently speaks about Visual FoxPro at conferences and user groups in North America and Europe, including every FoxPro DevCon since 1993. You can reach her at tamar@thegranors.com or through www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com.

Doug Hennig

Doug Hennig is a partner with Stonefield Systems Group Inc. and Stonefield Software Inc. He is the author of the award-winning Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT); the award-winning Stonefield Query; the MemberData Editor, Anchor Editor, and CursorAdapter and DataEnvironment builders that come with Microsoft Visual FoxPro; and the My namespace and updated Upsizing Wizard in Sedna. Doug is co-author of the “What’s New in Visual FoxPro” series (the latest being “What’s New in Nine”) and “The Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0.” He was the technical editor of “The Hacker’s Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0” and “The Fundamentals.” All of these books are from Hentzenwerke Publishing (http://www.hentzenwerke.com). Doug wrote over 100 articles in 10 years for FoxTalk and has written numerous articles for FoxPro Advisor and Advisor Guide. He has spoken at every Microsoft FoxPro Developers Conference (DevCon) since 1997 and at user groups and developer conferences all over the world. He is one of the administrators for the VFPX VFP community extensions Web site (http://www.codeplex.com/VFPX). He has been a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1996. Doug was awarded the 2006 FoxProCommunity Lifetime Achievement Award (http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FoxProCommunity-LifetimeAchievementAward~VFP). Web: www.stonefield.com and www.stonefieldquery.com, Email: dhennig@stonefield.com, Blog: http://doughennig.blogspot.com

Andy Kramek

Andy Kramek is an old FoxPro developer, FoxPro MVP, independent consultant and joint owner of Tightline Computers Inc. based in Akron, Ohio. A veteran conference speaker, he has published widely and can be found on-line at Foxite ( http://www.foxite.com), Tek-Tips (http://www.tek-tips.com) and in the Virtual FoxPro User Group (http://www.vfug.org) Email: andykr@tightlinecomputers.com

Rick Schummer

Rick Schummer is the president and lead geek at White Light Computing, Inc., headquartered in southeast Michigan, USA. He prides himself in guiding his customers' Information Technology investment toward success. After hours you might find him creating developer tools that improve developer productivity, or writing articles for his favorite Fox periodicals. Rick is a co-author of Visual FoxPro Best Practices for the Next Ten Years, What's New In Nine: Visual FoxPro's Latest Hits, Deploying Visual FoxPro Solutions, MegaFox: 1002 Things You Wanted To Know About Extending Visual FoxPro, and 1001 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro. He is a regular presenter at user groups in North America and has enjoyed presenting at GLGDW, Essential Fox, VFE DevCon, Southwest Fox, German DevCon, Advisor DevCon, and OzFox conferences. Rick is also an organizer for Southwest Fox and an administrator on VFPX. You can contact him via email at raschummer@whitelightcomputing.com, or his company Web site: http://www.whitelightcomputing.com, and read more of his thoughts on VFP in his blog Shedding Some Light (http://rickschummer.com/blog).