Duane Hennessy started programming in 1988 using FOCUS 4GL to create corporate databases. He took a brief hiatus to achieve his degree in Fine Arts (Printmaking) and came back to programming in 1988. Duane is a self-taught programmer with a knack for programming. In 2004 Duane started his own company Bandicoot Software to provide high-quality useful software for individuals and development work. During his day job Duane is a Senior Software Engineer specialising in MS Office integrated solutions and VBScripts providing imaginative solutions to complex business problems. OTHER FACTS ABOUT DUANE * Technical Advisor for Computech for Humanity, North Hollywood, USA. * Creator and Moderator of "AccessDevelopers" web group, an international forum for Access Developers around the world to seek solutions to problems, swap ideas and demonstrative code and discuss theory and practices of Access Database Development. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessDevelopers * Director of his own company Bandicoot Software, Australia. http://www.bandicootsoftware.com.au * Currently learning Spanish to created software in Spanish to capture a larger market. Duane plans to learn Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French in this order over the next five years.
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Many products today require some kind of integration with other products. The ability of a software application to work cohesively with other applications or within different flavours of operating systems with very few integration issues is called application sociability.
The interface is the face of the application behind which all of our instructional code is hidden; the interface between the user and the machinations for data crunching. It is imperative that the interface is well organised and easy to traverse with a mouse. I have seen command buttons thrown upon a form as if the developer were throwing dice in a game of yahtzee! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahtzee%21)

