2009 Project Bundle Up

For the first time ever we had a live auction. Much to the chagrin of Jan Johansen, he became the auctioneer. Many even followed his suggestion of bringing alcohol to be auctioned. The list of items included a suncatcher, vodka, many bottles of wine, power supply, and others. Over $360 for Project Bundle Up at the auction.

Curently as this moment we have collected approximately $1450 for Project Bundle Up. For many of you who couldn't make it to the conference, you can send a check to Donna Memon at R:BASE Technologies. Please write the check in order of "Project Bundle Up" or "Salvation Army".

Banquet Awards - Big Spender

The 2008 Big Spender award went to Jan Johansen

Banquet Awards - Best Suggested Feature

The awards for Best Suggested Feature went to Mike Byerley (dllcall), Charlie Parks (PROPERTY everything), Jan Johansen (images in listviews) and Emmitt Dove (hide on startup)

Measuring Customer Satisfaction – Creating Online Survey

Jan Johansen: Measuring Customer Satisfaction – Creating Online Survey

JJ Calibrations is an A2LA Accredited calibration laboratory. One of the accreditation requirements is to do periodic customer surveys. Jan decided to develop an application using R:BASE to accomplish this.

The application was designed to send out a survey to JJ Calibration's customers using R:Mail. The customers could complete the survey and send to the results back to JJ Calibration using a web address embedded in the e-mail. In order to associate the survey results with a customer, a mechanism needed to be created to assign a unique ID number to each e-mail. Jan worked with RBTI to develop a product called R:GUI ID. Jan’s system uses R:BASE, R:Mail and the R:GUI ID product.

Jan shared some of the problems he encountered and how he addressed them in developing the application.

Designing Touch Screen Applications

Jan Johansen: Designing Touch Screen Applications for Ultra Tablet PC Notebooks

Jan (pronounced Yan) of JJ Calibrations in Portland, OR, demonstrated an R:BASE application he developed for a handheld touch-screen PC. JJ Calibrations is an independent, A2LA Accredited calibration laboratory.

He noted that there were some special considerations due to the small size of the handheld computer. For instance, text had to be made larger due to the small screen size.

He also built some time-keeping functionality into his application so that a technician’s time could be logged . . . uuummm . . . accurately shall we say?

Jan’s application looked pretty impressive! According to http://www.jjcalibrations.com/ Jan wears no less than 3 hats including Research & Development, Technical Operations, and Webmaster.