Consolidated Metal Services, Inc.

Web Site Design

This web site was created, designed, programmed and maintained by Robert M. Fry.

All of our hardware is provided exclusively by Services-PC.

The following is a list of the programs and tools used in developing this site.

The CMS, Inc. Original Sales and Marketing Documents were written by Robert M. Fry, Brent Manley and Jim Wilbanks in Microsoft Word™ (95 and 97) and converted to HTML.

Original Job Types, Job Descriptions, Statistics, Sales Analysis and Sales Data came from a huge Microsoft Access™ 95-97 Database. This database was developed in 1995 and continually maintained by this author using Access™ Tables, Forms, Queries, Reports and several hundred lines of Microsoft Visual Basic™.  The above included data was exported to a SpreadSheet for further formatting.

Lists and accumulated data exported to Microsoft Excel™ (95 and 97) are constantly arranged, sorted and exported to a tab delimited text file.

A fast HTML code generator was developed and is maintained by the author which creates well over 200 indexed web pages from the SpreadSheet exported data file.

The code generator was written in C and C++ using a Borland™ C++ 4.0 Compiler.  It is a Win32s program with over 8000 lines of original code.

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts are written by the author in Perl 5.0.

Once exported to our server, the site is maintained and updated using Microsoft Front Page™ 98.

Funding and Overseeing of this project is provided by our President and CEO, Robert Newell Fry Jr.

Special Thanks to Microsoft™ and Borland™ for their outstanding products.

Thanks also to Brent and Jim, who always have ideas.  And to Helen Marie, for putting up with late nights and learning curves.

Thanks also to my 3 friends David, Johnny and Don ... they said I could.

Robert M. Fry

My Languages, Technology and Trends:

Fluent in:  ANSI C;  Borland™ C and C++ 4.0, 4.5 and 5.x, MS DOS™ Batch Language from DOS 5.0 to 6.22 and DOS Command for Win95-98; Microsoft Access™ 2.0, 95, 97, 2000 and XP, Microsoft Excel™ 4.0, 5.0, 95, 97, 2000 and XP, Microsoft Works™ 2.0, 3.0, 95 and 97, Microsoft Word™ 6.0, 95, 97, NT 4.0, 2000 Pro and XP Pro and Microsoft MS DOS™ 5.0, 6.0, 6.2 and 6.22;  Microsoft Windows™ 3.1, 3.11, 95a and 95b OSR2, 98, 98r2, WinME, Win2K, NT4WS, NT4Server, Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers, Domain Controllers, Active Directory, and Win2000 Pro and WinXP Pro GUIs, BIOS Level Hardware Troubleshooting, Server and Workstation Troubleshooting, Serial Comms, Single Frame Graphics, Memory Allocation, File and Disk Management (including SCSI RAID 0,1,5 and 10) as well as Rebuilding and Optimization, Advanced and Interrupt level Data Recovery, ISDN Comm, T1 Comm, Cable and xDSL, Multimedia Applications, TCP/IP Comm, SCSI, USENET, LAN and WAN Networking, Firewalls, Routing and Routers, DNS Servers, DHCP, Static IPs, VPNs including IPSec, P2P Networks, Spyware, Adware, Malware, Hardwire and Wireless Network Design / Installation and the WWW.

Almost Fluent:  Borland™ 4.0, 4.5 and 5.x C++ Classes; Borland™ C++ OOP, Microsoft Visual Basic™ for Access™ and Excel™, ADP (Peachtree) One Write Plus™ (aaaarggghhh), Intuit Quick Books Pro™

Very Familiar: Assembly (Believe it or not), Microsoft Studio 6.0, Autodesk AutoCAD™ 2-D CAD Design, BASIC, Borland™ 4.0 & 4.5 OWL™ for Win32s, CDR, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW theory, E-Mail, ftp, HTML, LINUX, MIRC, ODBC, IPSec and PPTP (Virtual Private Networking), Unix Shell, Macromedia Studio including Flash, Active Script and JavaScript.

Familiar:  C++ Standard Template Library, CGI, DVD, Fortran, gopher, Java, Perl, SQL, UNIX shell.

Under Informed:  Other Software, OSs, Languages, Transfer Protocols, Procedures and Methods not mentioned elsewhere on this page, and probably too numerous to list anyway.

Into:   Readable Code. Databases and Code Generators, Data Manipulation, Graphing, Analysing, and Charting. Complex Formulas and Data Structures.  Making something good even better, making something hard much easier, and asthetics.

Not into: Graphics and Game programming (there are guys much better than me for this chore, it takes a Developer as well as an Artist which I am not.)

AutoCAD Copyright Autodesk.

Borland C++ Copyright Borland International.

Java Copyright Sun Microsystems.

Microsoft Access, Excel, Front Page, MS DOS, MS Visual Basic, Windows, Win95, Win98, Windows NT, Works and Word  are Copyright Microsoft Corporation.

One Write Plus and Peachtree Copyright Automatic Data Processing.

Quick Books Pro Copyright Intuit Software.