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 Post subject: Intro: Rob Felder
PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 4:36 pm 

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Location: Portland, Oregon
Real Name: Robert Felder
Began Programming in MUMPS: 01 Jan 2002
Just joined; directed to the site by World Vista.
I am currently programming in the VA system, using M and Delphi. I have a clinical background: was a dentist for almost 20 years prior to picking up programming; and believe it helps with my program development. To date I have only written clincial types of programs, mostly for our local site. As most VA people know this local development has come to an end and currently I am refining some of my work for national consideration.

I have had no formal training in either M or Delphi, so there are large holes in my experience which I am hoping this formum can help plug.


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 Post subject: Re: Intro: Rob Felder
PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 5:49 pm 

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Location: Seattle, WA
Real Name: Kathy Ice
Welcome, Rob!

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 Post subject: Re: Intro: Rob Felder
PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 11:26 am 
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Hi Rob, and welcome to Mumpster. Are you the Rob Felder who works at Portland VA?

I completely agree with you that your twenty-year background as a dentist helps with your software development. Most of the best VISTA hardhats began as medical professionals because it's easier to teach programming to a doctor than to teach medicine to a programmer.

The VA's policy in recent years on local programming is a dead-end policy that can lead only to long-term failure. Local development is a crucial part of a successful VISTA-development lifecycle, and any organization that suppresses it is doomed to long-term failure. The VA will either reverse this policy or slowly descend into an unproductive morass with VISTA.

At the VISTA Expertise Network, we're working on a VISTA architectural guide that formally describes the VISTA software lifecycle, including the crucial role that secondary development plays in fitting VISTA properly to the needs of each adopter. I should have that guide available to the community by the end of February. I hope it will help the VA reverse its current short-sighted and self-defeating policy toward local development.

Over the course of 2011, I hope we can do much to help you with your MUMPS skills. As for your Delphi skills, we'll be taking a different approach to creating the next generation user interface for VISTA, a topic we will also be discussing at length in these forums.

Again, welcome.

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 Post subject: Re: Intro: Rob Felder
PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:27 am 

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Location: Portland, Oregon
Real Name: Robert Felder
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thanks; yes the Rob Felder that works at Portland VA; and we met (briefly when you surfaced from lab-code) at the World Vista meeting.

I was blown away by the innovation taking place in the WV community; from your work on lab, Chris on test patients (that I am encouraging VA to look into), time/date issues, translation issue, to Rob Tweeds work on mobile plateforms; it is clear that WV will be developing the tools that will take VA into the future.

And I am comforted by that.


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 Post subject: Re: Intro: Rob Felder
PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:12 pm 

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And I thought APHID was wicked cool. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Intro: Rob Felder
PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:34 am 
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I wonder if you'd be so kind as to fill in the registration field Location with your city and state. We've been having trouble with spambot pseudo-users lately, and I'm working on an algorithm to more clearly distinguish them from real users.

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