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Behind the scenes with Mark Weiss of ColorQuick.com
John Smiley
11.30.2000
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Behind the scenes with Mark Weiss of ColorQuick.com
This is the first in a series of periodic 'behind the scenes' looks at
companies and individuals using Visual Basic. It's sometimes an 'eye
opener' to see how others are actually using Visual Basic in their
work.
For this tip, I interviewed Mark Weiss, who is the President of
ColorQuick.com, located in Pennsauken, New Jersey. You can visit the
company's Web Site at: http://www.colorquick.com
Question: What is your job at ColorQuick?
Answer: I'm President of the company. ColorQuick is an intermediary
business to business Internet company providing digital workflow
technology that allows printers to better service their clients. Using
a mixture of proprietary software and off-the-shelf systems, ColorQuick
bridges the gap between the marketspace and marketplace. We provide
speed, quality and the cost savings associated with a state-of-the-art
web-enabled digital workflow.
Question: How does your company use Visual Basic?
Answer: We use Visual Basic as our primary development tool. To date,
we have coded a complete Estimating System, as well as automated the
production workflow of pre-press operations using a series of Visual
Basic applications that monitor jobs, and dynamically pass them from
one stage of production to the next.
Question: How did your programming staff learn Visual Basic?
Answer: Most of it is self-taught, along with some college courses on
Advanced Visual Basic topics.
Question: Do you use other languages besides Visual Basic?
Answer: Yes, we also use: C, C++, Perl, VBA, Hypertext, AppleScript,
PostScript and ASP.
Question: Do you use third-party tools?
Answer: Yes, we buy various tools as they are needed. However, to date,
implementation of third party tools has been pretty limited.
Question: What's it like to work at your company?
Answer: This is a broad question. We are under pressure to perform, and
get our product out into the market. We really try to work with our
folks, and have offsite and flex time situations to better meet
employee schedules.
Written by John Smiley, MCP, MCSD and MCT, author, and adjunct
professor of Computer Science at Penn State University in Abington,
Philadelphia University, and Holy Family College. John has been
teaching computer programming for nearly 20 years.
John Smiley is president of Smiley and Associates,
http://www.johnsmiley.com/smass/smass.htm a computer consulting firm
located in New Jersey.
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