Pat enjoys working with and learning new software. He is proficient in the use of all Microsoft Office applications. He is a major fan of mind-mapping and visualisation software such as Mindjet and Visio. He has written database applications for tracking students on the various academic programmes he managed. He also has written his own bibliographic database application (using Visual dBase). He uses Adobe Framemaker as the publishing application to write the course manuals he provides. Pat designed and maintains this website using Adobe Dreamweaver.