March 2008

SoftDefense, Industrial-Strength Security from Lansrad

March 18, 2008

Charles and his gang, who don’t seem to feel the need for sleep, have released SoftDefense. Using State-of-the-art Code Obfuscation techniques and Dynamic Runtime DLL loading, SoftDefense gives you the ability to render your Armadillo related code virtually invisible to Hackers. SoftDefense leverages Clarion’s own ability to write code to overcome the near impossible task [...]

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The Clarion Call (Magazine), Summer 1987

March 17, 2008

It was a beautiful winter over here. I can remember .. not much, being eleven years old. Larry hit us up on Skype recently with this amazing PDF file, clarioncallv1n1.pdf   (3.5+ megs). If you’d like to see Clarion bling at the earliest of stages, then take a gander at this document. Interesting fact: Back [...]

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Stu’s Greatest Hits (Tools)

March 17, 2008

I make no excuses for this list. These are the tools that I use every day. They are what I consider to be important for development. That doesn’t mean I won’t change though, or be persuaded otherwise. I’m always hearing of other tools that sound great. Sometimes it’s a monetary restriction. Other times it’s a [...]

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Acronis TrueImage Rescues Another Computer

March 16, 2008

Roger has posted his recent experience with using TrueImage (the Wikipedia entry) to restore windows after a bad installation experience. Taking a squiz at TrueImage has convinced me I need to get myself hooked up. It’s not very expensive, and the peace of mind it seems to inspire (see the newsgroup post, this Whirlpool thread, [...]

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Firefox 3 Uses Far Less Memory Than Other Browsers

March 14, 2008

There’s a very cool post on the Pavlov.net blog, Firefox 3 Memory Usage. There’s a lot in the post. Reducing Memory fragmentation, the Cycle collector, how image data is stored .. and lots more. Down towards the bottom there’s a graph showing memory Megabytes over Time for IE7, Firefox 2 and Firefox 3. It’s a [...]

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What Is Clarion?

March 13, 2008

Clarion is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) software development tool, currently owned by Soft Velocity. Using the Template system, you can quickly generate windows, forms, browses and more, simple and efficiently. Code generation is first class, and embed points mean you can inject your own code into any place you need it. Alternatively, you can [...]

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What Can Clarion Do For Me?

March 12, 2008

If you haven’t already, read What Is Clarion? for information regarding Clarion. What Can Clarion Do For You? Clarion can make you money faster than any other development tool on the planet. It’s true. "Flay that man alive!" I hear the baying of the IT crowd. You cannot make statements like that. So absolute. So [...]

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