Summit 95 Seminars, Workshops and Keynotes

(Updated 8/6/95)

Keynotes | Workshops | Seminars | Speaker Biographies | Schedule

Keynotes & Lifetime Achievement Awards

• It's What You Don't Know That's Important - Alan Cooper
• Meeting the Challenge of Reusable Software - Bertrand Meyer
• Client/Server Database Challenges - Dr. S. Bing Yao

Half Day Workshops

• Advanced Object-Oriented Analysis and Design - Jack Hakim
• Introduction to Object-Orientation - Savannah Brentnall
• The Ins and Outs of Client/Server - Richard Finkelstein
• Learning SQL in 3 Hours: Problem-Driven Approach - Dr. David Rozenshtein
• Starting and Growing a Consulting Business - Douglas M. Grimsted

Database Engine Technology

• Dramatically Increasing SQL Performance Using Linguistic Optimization - Dr. David Rozenshtein
• Introduction to Textbases - Joe Celko
• Microsoft SQL Server 6.0 vs. Sybase SQL Server System 10 - Robert C. Bolt
• Mission-Critical Multi-User Techniques - How Database Systems Pass the ACID Test - Jim Gray
• Object-Oriented vs Relational vs Network: What it Really Means - Mark Puckett
• ODBC Database Interfacing to the World Wide Web - Greg Prosl and Mark West
• ODBC Pro and Con - Richard Finkelstein and Kyle Geiger, moderated by Mike Ricciuti
• Optimizing Oracle 7, Microsoft SQL Server & Sybase System 10 - Brian Butler
• Optimizing the Borland Database Engine - Jeff Winchell
• Optimizing the Microsoft Jet Engine - Paul Litwin
• SQL For Smarties - Joe Celko
• Sizing A Compaq ProLiant Server Running Oracle 7 Database - Steve Adrien De Luca
• Transitions: Single-User to Workgroup-Sized Multi-User - Tom Hovis
• Tree Processing in SQL: The Correct Approach - Dr. David Rozenshtein

Analysis and Design

• Choosing a CASE Tool - Maurice Frank
• Client/Server vs. File Server - Dr S Bing Yao and Mike Gardner
• Introduction to Semantic Object Modeling - Dr. David M. Kroenke
• Managing Requirements with Use Cases - Todd Wyder
• Object Role Modeling: An Indepth Discussion - Terry Halpin
• OMT Design for Database Applications - Michael R. Blaha
• PC Database Design Tools - ER (Chen) vs ORM (InfoModeler) Modeling - Ron Talmage
• Reverse Engineering Database Designs from Relational Databases - Michael R. Blaha

Management

• 10 Dumb Mistakes Project Managers Make - Gopal Kapur
• Business Process Re-Engineering - Todd Wyder
• How Long Will It Take? Providing Reasonable Estimates - Ken Florian
• How to Figure Out What Your Customers Want - Ken Florian
• Making End User Development Work for the Enterprise - Dr. David M. Kroenke
• Object Technology for Managers - Paul Blattner
• Offshore Software Development - Alex Blier
• Process Maturity: Those Chaotic Teenage Years - Todd Wyder
• Quality Software Development - James Bach, Ken Florian, and Gopal Kapur. Moderated by Bruce Brown.
• Team Programming (or Herding Cats) - Mike Gunderloy
• The Role of End Users in the Successful Deployment of the Data Warehouse - Katherine Glassey
• What's Your Strategic Focus? Three Choices - Ken Florian

Programming

Access

• Creating Power Forms Using Microsoft Access - John Viescas
• Rapid Application Development Using Access Macros - Michael J. Hernandez
• Preview of Microsoft Access 95 - Ken Getz and Paul Litwin
• Making the Transition to Client/Server in Access - Mike Gunderloy
• Using the Windows API to extend Access Basic - Ken Getz
• Introduction to Microsoft's Data Access Objects (DAO) - Ken Getz
• Introduction to Access Basic - F Scott Barker

CA Development Tools

• CA-Clipper's Objects and Classes - Greg Lief
• VO's Data Windows and Controls - Greg Lief

Delphi

• Accessing Client/Server Data (Jet Engine and Interbase) - Martin Rudy
• Delphi Tips and Tricks - Michael Li
• Transitions: Delphi for Visual Basic Users - Kenn Nesbitt
• Intro to Database Programming Using DB/DBF Data - Martin Rudy
• Transitions: Delphi Issues for Developers in Other Languages - Michael Li, Kenn Nesbitt, Martin Rudy and Ron Stevenson, moderated by Kevin Smith.

FoxPro

• Advanced Visual FoxPro Controls - John Miller
• Developing Your Own Builders - John Alden and David T Anderson
• Extending the Data Dictionary - Doug Hennig
• Migrating from FoxPro 2.x to Visual FoxPro - Fletcher Johnson
• Moving from Procedural to Object Oriented with Visual FoxPro - Rod Paddock
• Upsizing a Visual FoxPro application to SQL Server - David T Anderson

Lotus Notes

• Application Development Environments for Lotus Notes - Tony Parker
• Oracle/Lotus Notes Integration - Christian Schock
• What is Lotus Notes - David Rauschenbach

More Programming Tools and Techniques

• A Tour of Eiffel: The Ultimate Object Oriented Language? - Bertrand Meyer
• Creating Classes and Objects - Ken Levy
• Developer Opportunities in Telephone Enabled Applications (Interactive Voice Response) - Gene Moran
• Efficient Client/Server Reporting - Kevin Quinn
• Managing Business Change and Complexity with Magic - Arie Shen
• Oracle Power Objects - Wister Walcott
• Object Oriented Programming in a Relational World - Rod Paddock
• What Every Developer Needs to Know About Testing - James Bach
• SQLWindows Tips and Tricks

Paradox

• Data Entry Tips and Techniques - Marty McIntire
• Multi-Table Form Programming - Brian J Smith
• ObjectPAL in Paradox for Windows 95 - Kevin Smith
• The ObjectPAL Event Model - Brian J. Smith
• What's New in Paradox for Windows 95 - Marty McIntire

PowerBuilder

• Introduction to PowerBuilder - Christoper A. Emerson
• Tips and Traps for PowerBuilder Development Using a Class Library - Kent Marsh
• Developing in PowerBuilder Using Object-Oriented Techniques - Kent Marsh

Product Comparisons

• Access vs Paradox - Ron Stevenson
• Access vs Visual Basic vs Visual FoxPro - Stan Leszynski, Paul Sheriff and Rod Paddock
• CA-Visual Objects vs Visual dBASE vs Visual FoxPro - Greg Lief, Jeff Winchell , David T Anderson, moderated by Tom Spitzer
• Leveraging Your Investment in BASIC (Access, VBA, Visual Basic) - Alison Balter
• Delphi vs Paradox vs Visual dBASE - Michael Li, Tom Hovis and Jeff Winchell
• Object-Oriented Programming Tools - C++, Eiffel, OO Xbase, Smalltalk and More - Sames S. Shuster and Jack Hakim
• Client/Server Front-Ends: PowerBuilder vs SQLWindows - Moderated by Robert C. Bolt

SmallTalk

• Introduction to SmallTalk - Living in a Totally Object World - Sames S. Schuster
• Visual Programming In Smalltalk - PARTS - Sames S. Schuster
• Visual Programming: The Other 90% (The Continuum Project) - Sames S. Schuster

Visual Basic

• Programming Drag and Drop Interfaces - Alison Balter
• Getting Away from Data Aware Controls - Paul Sheriff
• OLE Automation - Keith Pleas
• Tapping the Windows API with Visual Basic - Paul Sheriff
• Developing a Custom Error Handling System - Alison Balter

Visual dBASE

• Developing Bug-Free Code Using Visual dBASE - Jeff Winchell
• Developing Windows 95 Applications with Visual dBASE - Ted Graham
• Introduction to Visual dBASE 5.5 for Windows - Fletcher Johnson
• Object-Oriented Form Design in Visual dBASE- Fletcher Johnson
• Understanding Windows Programming with Visual dBASE - Michael Gardner