Eric Arnstrong 1200 Dale Ave. #100 Mountain View CA 94040

650 / 845-1782 eric@treelight.com www.treelight.com/workflow.html

WorkFlow Automation

Is your organization bogged down in tedious, repetitive tasks? Automate! Improve efficiency, save time, eliminate redundant operations, and reduce costly errors. Any time your people are thinking, "there must be a better way," there probably is!

Most departments can't afford to devote a full-time person to tools development. And its often not worth bringing someone in for a single tool. But across the organization, the startup cost and ongoing expense is easily justified. We can canvas your organization to see how many small to medium-sized tools are on the organization "wish list", then prioritize for maximum impact in the shortest possible time. A few months or weeks devoted to each department can have a tremendous impact on the bottom line!

Tools

• Short projects, lasting from a couple of days to a couple of months.
• That reduce errors, enable deadlines, and improve effectiveness
• Complete with the documentation and training necessary to utilize and extend them!

Departments Release Engineering Software Development Documentation Help Systems and APIs Quality Control

Deliverables Specifications Code Usage Instructions Test Suites Training

Eric Armstrong has been designing and developing computer software since before there were personal computers. He is a contributing author at JavaWorld, and the author of The JBuilder 2 Bible. His programming experience includes business applications, expert systems, system libraries, real-time programs, artificial intelligence applications and, of course, tools. His past clients include Sun Microsystems, Rolm, DEC, and Data General.

Operating Systems Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 95 Solaris

Scripting Languages CSH, Perl, Awk, Sed, GnuMake, Sh PC-DOS

Programming Languages Java, ML, Icon others too numerous to mention

A Sampling:
	DocCheck	Analyzes API comments in Java source code, finds defects, and suggests text.
	Scheduler	Tracks project tasks and durations and predicts completion dates. On the CD that accompanies The JBuilder 2 Bible. A single person application that does not handle complex dependencies.
	ProofTool	Keeps a list of terms to change or review. Runs the entire list on a document at one time, giving the user interactive control over replacements. (MS-Word).
	WordToHTML	Converts MS-Word Documents to HTML.
	HTML Table Formatter	Converts HTML tables into plain ASCII text for display on character-based CRTs.