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Patrick M. Benson originated database sockets, enabling enterprise-scale and e-commerce capable web systems. In the mid-1990's he gave four national presentations and presented two papers detailing how n-tier web systems could be built and the role database sockets played. These became part of the web developer's toolbox. This collection pulls together for the first time all six documents. It includes contemporaneous speaker notes, updates to the papers and presentations notes reflecting questions and answers at the conferences, and update comments from June 2012. Included are: - Perl as a System Glue from the First O'Reilly Perl Conference. The paper and presentation are the genesis of database sockets and distributed computing in UNIX and related open source tools. - OASIS - A Web Based Fixed Assets System from the Indiana University 1998 WebDevShare conference. The paper and presentation that provided the first deep technical details describing how database sockets worked. It includes the C-code necessary to implement server side database sockets. - OASIS - A Web Based Fixed Assets System from the 1998 EduComm/EduCause national conference. Here Benson provided a management view into sample systems and web development and activities. This includes Benson's Best Practices model - Performance Driven Design Issues in Web Development from the 1999 WebDevShare conference. This presentation addressed challents of moving web systems from development into production. Here Benson introduced both real-world n-tier, multiport and multithread sockets as a solution to issues faced by web developers.

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Patrick Benson retired from the information technology sector in 2011 after 40 years of widely varied experiences. During his career he worked in all phases of government administrative systems development, support and management. Before retirement he was the Director of Administrative Computing at Northern Arizona University. Earlier roles include Manager of the Heritage Services Group (Financial and Human Resources/Payroll) with the University of Washington. Before moving to the higher education sector, Mr. Benson was the Data Processing Manager with Ernst and Whinney Telecommunications Group. Patrick also spent 12 years with the USAF working on fighter aircraft weapons control systems, and programming intelligence applications and database management systems. Since retirement Mr. Benson has engaged a life-long dream of writing. In 2011 his play Hearing received an Honorable Mention in the 80th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition. His first book, Database Sockets and Web Application Development Papers and Presentations, is a compilation of papers written and presentations given as he helped originate socket technology during the mid-1990s. Although the technology is in the public domain, and Mr. Benson strives to keep it there, he is given credit for the initial successful and enterprise-scale implementations with true n-tier architecture, external high-capacity databases, and external authorization and authentication systems. This work paved the way for modern web commerce systems.

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