clarion

A Summary So Far Of Your Marketing/Advertising Ideas

October 19, 2008

Back on the 14th I posted $10 Million To Make A Clarion .Net Ad. There was a great response, both here and on the newsgroups. Following is a summary of your thoughts: BLOG Murray Gillespie It was a simple ad, "Ease of use vs Price", that sold Clarion to him. Richard Rose Language. Appgen. Smart [...]

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$10 Million To Make A Clarion .Net Ad

October 14, 2008

Let’s say you were tasked with the job of coming up with an advertising campaign for Clarion dot Net. What would you do? Here’s an idea to kick things off, although anyone who’s listened to the podcast will already know it. The Focal point of the campaign is the word "Rad". It’s said by a [...]

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New Clarion Beta Versions

June 13, 2008

Looks like the SV crew have released a new build of Clarion 7 (and probably .Net, although I haven’t got the email yet). There are new Dictionary features, Win32 RTL and a few IDE enhancements, plus a bunch of fixes. No AppGen yet .. I am sure the entire world will hear the echoes of [...]

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Clarion Sharper By The Minute, Linq Support

May 8, 2008

I’m never sure what to do when Bob Z drops a bit of info in to me. Whether to blog it, hit the newsgroups, jump on skype. See, I get a little nervous. Why? Because I can hear the cries of angst and trouble. "Why aren’t they concentrating on bugs?" "When is the AppGen done?" [...]

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Clarion in the “Hello World” Collection

May 7, 2008

Clarion is part of a massive huge list of Hello World programs. Here’s the list, and here’s the Clarion entry. There’s a lot of programs and languages (including human ones) in the list. It would seem we have a lot of ways to say the same thing. To make the same thing. I wonder if [...]

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There Is A New Report Designer In Town

April 10, 2008

Steve Ryan is a shining light. When most other people are either disparaging the new Clarion (newsgroups) or not doing much with it at all (me), he’s toiling away. Sure, he’s struck a few hurdles, but it hasn’t slowed progress. Steve and his crew are nearing the end of a big product. They are completing [...]

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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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