In computing:

In video production:

As an informed Win95 and Internet hobbiest (1997-present): Prompted by his Public Access involvement in Tampa (and currently being between employments), Mr Daurril is engaged in the leisurely development of an Access-VB5 system (called MADISON STATE, or Ms2) to facilitate the construction, production and distribution of video documentaries. Subsets of the database here having considerable textual content, Ms2s Common Gateway Interface (CGI) to the internet may be programmed more conventionally (using standard Perl if the server OS should go UNIX, or ORA Perl for Win32 otherwise) than was the business set in the facilities managment habitat described below. JDK (Java) 1.1.5 is also under consideration for C-driven graphics and client-side POST pre-processing. For office operations incidental to this effort, Joe uses Terminate 4.0 for FTP and TelNet, GTE.netfor Web access, Quick Link II for faxing, and the family of applications associated with microsoft's Office 97 (Access 97, Excel 97 etc).

Facility Management (FM: 1994-1997): As part owner of a business that manufactured and distributed nutritional supplements in Chicago, Mr Daurril was principally responsible for all things pertaining to the (remote) construction of its database and WebSite operations. Computer operations merely began with catalogue development (in Pagemaker 3.1) on a Macintosh, to which were added DB applications under FoxPro 2.6. Both these 16-bit applications went operational under Win95 in 1996, and evolved thru FP26, VB3, VB4, and VB5. The on-line catalogue now showing not only current product but also hypertexted to nutrition industry sources, and SELECTed database was available (under Access and VB4) CGIed (via O'Reilly's WS 1.1) for order entry & order status reporting. Internal office operations went to use the MS (Office) 97 product line with a vengance, and webified Excel and Word output were posted periodically to the company home page (Aldus PM 5.0 now reserved for the hard-copy publications). Extractions from the DB also fueled Peachtree (for our bookeeping needs).
Unfortunately, the partnership that supported this work was dissolved in August 1997. That involvement he now seeks to resume as direct labor wherever he may be needed.

Technical Reorientation period: Hardware & Presentation mechanics (1983-1993):
Applications under a Presentation Management: While Microsoft prepared for its introduction (finally in Nov 1985) of Window's 1.01, Mr Daurril sought and attained (at about the same time) the elements of a character (not graphics) mode windowing system. Written for the PC in K&R C, it was marketed (with a UNIX variant) as a generalized text-editor in 1987. Joe's skills in C are mainly practical (from his work with the LACCD again in 1987); he continues to maintain an interest in C++ that began with coursework at the U/Illinois Chicago campus on Win32 APIencapsulation by both Borlands OWL and MSs MFC, and given the time would recast much of his RAD work under MS Visual C++.

PC DOS "CICS" database applications. Utilizing his experience in conventional mainframe CICS development, from 1983 on Mr Daurril proceeded to express, as XT and then AT CICS equivalents, his expertise in hierarchical and networked database organization in every dialect of BASIC(BASIC IV, BBX, Microsoft Compiler, QBASIC, Thoroughbred and finally Visual) then available.

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