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Developing Visual Basic 4.0 Programs for the Internet with ActiveX Controls
by Wayne S. Freeze

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Wayne S. Freeze is the Technical Support Manager for the University of Maryland at College Park's Administrative Computer Center with responsibility for a large scale IBM mainframe and development of client/server architectures. He has a Bachelors' degree in Computer Science (operating systems and compiler design) and a Master's degree Business Management (database management theory and software engineering) from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is also the author of a popular shareware program called Car Collector which is written in Visual Basic and incorporates the ActiveX technology.

His experience with personal computers dates back to 1975 when he built one of the first personal computers available - the Altair 8800. With its 8080 microprocessor, one kilobyte of RAM, and front panel with over a hundred switches (which were used to enter a program), it was a real challenge to program. Since then, he has used dozens of different personal computer systems, running CP/M, DOS, DOS/Windows, OS/2, Windows 95, and Unix.

Wayne has also worked with dozens of different types of computers and their operating systems. His experience includes: maintaining mainframe operating systems for IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Univac; installing and maintaining Unix on a variety of platforms; real-time systems programming, and developing numerous operating system utilities and other application systems. His background include programming languages like C, C++, BASIC, Pascal, COBOL, FORTRAN, SPL, PL/I, LISP, Prolog, and several assorted assembly languages. It also includes in depth knowledge of database management theory, operating systems theory, compiler design and implementation, software engineering, computer networking, performance analysis, and client/server theory.

His current job responsibilities include strategic planning, which often involves translating very high level objects into detailed technical specifications (and back again), developing computing architectures in which others implement application solutions, and presenting technical issues to non-technical administrators.

Wayne is also the developer of a popular shareware program called Car Collector. Written in Visual Basic, it helps the serious die cast car collector manage his or her collection of Matchbox, Hot Wheels or other types of cars. The professional edition of the program will be able to download information from the Internet and update the local database directly without having to use a web browser or FTP program to retrieve the data. (For more information about this program see: http://www.justpc.com/cc.html)

His publications include:

How to Conquer the world in 24 hours or less -- A Civilization Walkthrough Part I, GameBytes Issue #19, 1994. (A copy of this article can be found at: http://gamesdomain.cdc.net/GameBytes/issue19/misc/civ1.html).
How to Conquer the world in 24 hours or less -- A Civilization Walkthrough, Part II, GameBytes Issue #20, 1994. (A copy of this article can be found at: http://gamesdomain.cdc.net/GameBytes/issue20/misc/civ2.html)
How to Conquer the world in 24 hours or less -- A Civilization Walkthrough, Part III, GameBytes Issue #21, 1994. (A copy of this article can be found at: http://gamesdomain.cdc.net/GameBytes/issue21/misc/civ3.html)
Washington DC Scenery Enhancement by Mallard, GameBytes Issue #19, 1994. (A copy of this article can be found at: http://gamesdomain.cdc.net/GameBytes/issue19/greviews/washingt.html)
IBM VM/SP Student Commands Reference Manual, University of Maryland, IRCN, February 1983, W.S. Freeze, P.A. Ryan, W.A. Seley, and T. Tugman.
Design of the VAX Instrumentation Package (VIP), University of Maryland, TR-952, October 1980. L.W. Dowdy, W.S. Freeze, B.G. Labow and J.N. Reed.

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