This is the 'about' page of John Brock Computing Services.
Just to let you know who I am and what I have achieved over the years...
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I am a qualified electronics engineer. I ran the development laboratory at Telkor in Luipaardsvlei (South Africa) when Telkor supplied ground-to-air communications equipment to Armscor and the Civil Aviation Authority.
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I have been a Novell networking partner since Novell was 'king' in the networking market. During which time I designed a version of remote PC monitoring/assistance software, operating on a network for Centre Group.
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I wrote a 'through printer driver' for a SCO unix client who ran PC's as terminals on a unix system. Thus began my long association with unix now linux. I provide linux servers for a country wide company system. I have been involved with linux since the days of it running on a 80386.
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I provided A+ & Barefoot Engineer Training at Whitehead Morris Seminars (Randburg) for seven years.
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I helped build INET into the company which competed very successfully against Reuters. INET was a joint partnership of Times Media & Ivor Jones (Institution Analysts on the JSE). It became INET / Bridge and supplies the SABC and other traders with JSE figures and financial news.
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I have built servers and networks of a highly reliable nature which provide 100% up-time.
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I designed and built electronic attachments for the PC as well as communications interfaces for networks.
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I have used Microsoft development tools since the early days of the PC. With them I have developed utility programs that check hardware and transfer data reliably.
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I can program in C & C++, Assembler (Z80/8080 & 80x86 & PIC), PHP, BASIC & QBasic & VBA & Visual Basic.
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I have built HR, payroll and 'work flow' systems for corporate customer requirement that function over a wide area network.
This used an 'off-line' data capture program, written by me because the internal IT department web on-line system was so slow to respond and unreliable.
This 'BatchCap' program uploaded the verified and validated data either by email, ftp or directly into MySQL.
Managerial reports sent by email to the line managers for approval were automatically generated by the payroll administrator.
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