Show #9 with guest John Petersen posted on Friday, May 07, 2010

John has been a developer for about 20 years – starting with dBase and FoxBase+. He then got into FoxPro 2.0 and VB 3 – eventually giving way to Visual FoxPro. Then along came .NET! Through that time, He has developed applications in SQL Server since version 6. He has also developed applications with Oracle versions 9i and 10g.

John has written and co-authored books on Database development, Visual FoxPro and Web development with Visual Basic. From 1995-2001, John was a Microsoft Developer MVP and has spoken at many user groups and industry conferences including Tech Ed and Developer Days.

In 2004, he graduated from the Rutgers University School of Law with a Juris Doctor Degree. He passed the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar exams and was in private practice for several years – concentrating transactional and general business law (contracts, copyrights, trademarks, independent contractor agreements, NDA’s, intellectual property and mergers and aquisitions.).

Although He never completely stopped, several years ago, John returned to my first passion on a full time basis- software development. Today, He is writing for Code Magazine again and is active on the MSDN Forums. He actively participates in the Philly SQL Server, .NET, ALT NET and XAML user groups.

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