{"id":2,"date":"2009-05-17T11:32:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T17:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-06-01T10:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:27:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6\" title=\"Kenneth Lee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kenny.jpg\" alt=\"Kenneth Lee\" width=\"380\" height=\"428\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenneth Lee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have been a database developer for most of my programming career.\u00a0 I began my career as a school teacher, then moved towards teaching computer classes.\u00a0 As I taught more and more dBase III classes, I found myself writing more and more code.\u00a0 I changed to a full time programming position using dBase III and Clipper.\u00a0 This eventually worked into FoxPro 2 through FoxPro 8, using the Codebook methodology with version 3 onward.<\/p>\n<p>Almost every company I have worked for has used Oracle in some capacity.\u00a0 I began writing reports and other programs that would access Oracle directly.\u00a0 Many times, using an ETL tool to get the data both into Oracle, then transformed to a format native to Foxpro.\u00a0 Eventually, I spent more and more time writing both Java and PL\/SQL code.\u00a0 This naturally led to developing with JDeveloper and Application Express.<\/p>\n<p>My first computer was a TRS-80.\u00a0 I would spend nights typing programs in by hand, and leaving the computer on, as loading from tape took quite a bit of time.\u00a0 Looking back to how fast data could be transferred, it seems funny that I can complain about the slowness of a cable modem or T-1 line.\u00a0 The PCs that I use don&#8217;t seem fast enough either, and there is always the need to purchase something faster and better, and usually cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy time with my family, and really enjoy what I do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a database developer for most of my programming career.\u00a0 I began my career as a school teacher, then moved towards teaching computer classes.\u00a0 As I taught more and more dBase III classes, I found myself writing more and more code.\u00a0 I changed to a full time programming position using dBase III and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}