As a young teenager I use to show goats at the Utah County and Utah State fairs. My parents would park our family trailer at the fair grounds and let my brother and me spend the week taking caring for the animals and hanging around the fairgrounds—it was almost like living on our own. I fondly remember one year the excitement of taking home $56 in prize winnings and several best of show ribbons. I’m pretty sure running fairs in the 80’s involved lots of paper and few computers to make the job easier. Thanks to people like Mike Hnatt the business of running fairs gets more efficient every year. In 1994 Mike was working as an assistant for the Texas Agricultural Cooperative Extension. He was approached by the chairman of the local county fair for a better way to manage the fairs records. He built the first version of ShoWorks using Microsoft Access 2.0 (people tell me it was one of the best releases ever). Their web site claims ShoWorks is today the #1 selling fair management software and serves most of the state fairs and county fairs in the US and Canada. Mike told me they are just under $1 million annual sales! You can read about their history on the ShoWorks blog. Gladstone has recently shipped their most significant upgrade since 1996 with almost 1,
Office Professional 2010 Key,000 enhancements. I asked Mike what new features in Access 2007 did he find most useful? Ribbon - we used it extensively and our customers had a positive response. Resizable forms with control anchoring - our app is finally no longer restricted to just one resolution. Highly improved filtering options - tons of data type sensitive filtering options makes our customers grateful,
Office 2007 Activation Key, even though we cannot take credit for it,
Office Pro Plus 2007! Here are some screen shots. Main Menu - Shows the main interface with various ways to access the data entry forms.
Customizable Layouts - Users may add fields (even their own user defined fields) in forms,
Windows 7 Serial, including the ability to rename fields and specify their position on the form.
Checks - Checks are automatically generated.
Report Manager - Reports are managed through drag-drop grouping.
Report Wizard - Custom reports may be created and edited at any later time,
Office 2010 Home And Stude/nt Key, with a user-friendly report writer.
Automatic Backups - Amazon's S3 services provide a safe way for users to have automated backups of the backend data.
Pretty cool stuff. It reminds me that I need to get my kids to the Puyallup County Fair this fall and teach my kids how to judge goats. Who knows—maybe we will grow a giant strawberry and cash a check printed by ShoWorks. <div