Jayson Minard

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Jayson Minard was involved in or related to these technology products or innovations:

  • Part of the Force team developing the Force Xbase compiler, the first natively compiled and statically typed Xbase language.
  • Lead of the NavCIS team that created WYSIWYG e-mail and WYSIWYG forum messaging in the early 1990s (on CompuServe).
  • Participated in developing the JBuilder product at Borland.
  • Involved in creation of early Java specifications such as JavaBeans and JDBC.
  • Received the patent for class and source navigational development environments which most modern IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) are based upon.
  • Employed as CIO to Abebooks, a comparison site for used and rare books.

He is currently working for Zend as lead for the Zend Framework and Editor in Chief for the Zend Developer Zone.