March 2008

Scoble Agrees With Calcanis, Startups Cannot Afford Slackers

March 11, 2008

Scoble (Robert) has voiced his opinion on Jason Calcanis’ "opinions" about (Web) Startups and Slackers. Ha ha, Techcrunch has an amusing take on it. I’m not sure how many "startups" of the Web 2.0 nature exist within the Clarion universe. Probably zero or less. But I think this opinion is valid for any team seeking [...]

Tagged as: jason calcanis, robert scoble, techcrunch

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Code-Signing Your Applications

March 7, 2008

There’s been some great discussion on the Skype channel about Code-Signing your software applications. Especially with Vista this is something that we cannot ignore. Vista’s UAC makes it difficult for the User to install un-signed applications. This in turn will establish doubt and annoyance in them, at _us_, the developer. The conversation led me to [...]

Tagged as: code-signing, uac

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Topspeed File Size Limit

March 7, 2008

Jorge opened up the discussion with the following post: 2 Gb is a bit small for today standards…\r\nAny chance or plan to improve the file format to increse this limit? There are a number of differing answers, although most people were in agree-ence that 2GB is getting crazy big anyway. A move to SQL is [...]

Tagged as: clarion, topspeed

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Making A Download Link That Will “Save” The File, Nettalk Webserver

March 5, 2008

Over on NetTalk Central, there’s a good thread about how to make a download link "Save" the file in the browser, rather than the browser "viewing" it. Bruce’s answer, the first one, is to convince the browser so that it doesn’t know what to do with the file. The discussion continues on from there with [...]

Tagged as: clarion, nettalk

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Microsoft Changing Stance on IE8 Default “Mode”

March 5, 2008

This is a change that rings throughout all the fiefdoms of Nerdland! In a post on the IEBlog (I got there from theRegister), Dean Hachamovitch posts: We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously. This [...]

Tagged as: ie8, microsoft

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Version Control Systems

March 5, 2008

Arnor started a very useful post on the newsgroups regarding Version Control software. The following are the systems that came up in the discussion (apologies if I missed any). Some of these aren’t full systems, but helpers in the process: Visual Source Safe TDC Version Control System Tortoise SVN CVSNT MSBuild CruiseControl.Net Serena PVCS Seems [...]

Tagged as: clarion, clarionmag, msbuild, tortoise svn, visual source safe

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Selling Domain Names

March 5, 2008

Jesus Moreno has posted on the newsgroups about his selling of some domains (most/all of which have "clarion" in their name). This has prompted some very aggressive conversation. It’s one of those topics that sounds pretty harmless until you actually talk about it. On one hand we have the very real choice that is Jesus’ [...]

Tagged as: clarion

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