At The Texas Youth Commission in Dallas, a state agency that helps protect, rehabilitate and guide young people in the juvenile justice system, Lance helps employees in the finance department make sense and act upon data that comes from multiple state and external systems. With 14 facilities throughout the state, and highly confidential information being passed intra-agency and through other state agencies, Lance must incorporate all the data into a common, mission critical set of applications that serves many masters.

"I use a code generator to quickly generate the entire transactional side of the application, as well as add page controls and filters for reports," Lance says.

"First thing I do is generate a sample application using the default screens that Iron Speed Designer generates. This is just a few quick tables with simple functionality. It takes me about 15 minutes to generate them. But it's a working application."