Clarion stuff and more
Sorry its been a long time, I will try to get back into a routine, but I guess I have just had too much other stuff going on that I missed the boat quite a lot. Where does the time go?
Well Ill post more, I promise 
Later
Mark
Update to clarion.net 3040
Just a small post with an attachment.
I’ve been spending quite some time when not carrying out my day job playing with clarion#.
On the whole I would say I am very happy with what SV have given us.
Anyway I’ve developed a little app to do reflection of .net exe’s and dll’s, if you care to download the source.
Below is a picture of the app.
Let me know what you think, and post back any improvements you might make.
Cheers for now
Mark
Well the announcement came and went. Clarion.Net is now available to purchase in it’s early takers form. So it will be cheese and bread for me until the end of the month as my debit card takes the hit.
The fun part was my wonderful bank seeing me buying software in $ from the US bounced the transaction, and put a hold on my bank account, on my birthday as well. All sorted now, but a pita.
I’m looking forward to getting my grubby little hands on clarion.net and learning the nuances of clarion# (pronounced clarion sharp). In fact I have been waiting a couple of years for this, hence me eagerness to buy a product that is not ready yet.
Its going to be interesting to learn all this new stuff, and get up to speed. With that SV are going to be providing lots of educational material for us to read through.
Which brings me to another point. Another very useful place for clarion dev’s is the skype cw-talk chat.. I would recommend you getting a skype account and coming over to join us. There are quite a few clarion dev’s already on there, and you would be more than welcome to come and join the crew.
Well that will do for now.
Blog to you later.
Mark
Hi all in clarion blog sphere land and welcome to another update to my blog.
With the encouragement of my pimp Stu, I will try to keep these going, even if there are only 3 people on the planet reading me.
Tonight I thought that I would write with a few suggestions of places to go while learning a few things in moving your way to .Net stardom. Thinking how I could help here, I decided to post a bunch of links to blogs and other resources where I feel you should be reading and studying in order to gain more knowledge in .Net.
So with out a todo Let the blogs roll:
In no particular order.
MSDN There is so much reading material here that you could spend the rest of your development lifetime just reading it (I suggest you don’t do that by the way).
Channel 9 Yet another resource from Microsoft. This site puts you in touch with the Microsofties that develop a lot of the stuff you are going to be working with when you switch to .Net. The site has videos, Walk through’s, podcasts etc etc. Well worth half an hour or so a week of your time.
.Net Rocks and .Net Rocks TV. Carl Franklin has been doing these podcasts and screencasts for a few years now. Well worth a listen each week.
Scott Hanselman, now a senior PM for Microsoft, and a prolific blogger. What he doesn’t know on the .Net subject probably isn’t worth knowing anyway. Scott also does a weekly podcast that usually last no more than 15 to 20 mins, and is also very good.
learnvisualstudio.net is also a very good resource. I subscribed to this a couple of years ago, and although it is targeted at visual studio, the screencasts have plenty of information to dig your teeth into.
Yet another useful Microsoft site, especially for you eagerly awaiting web app developers is asp.net, on here you will again find all sorts of useful information, tutorials and walk through’s for everything asp.net.
Well that’s a few for you to be getting into. Please comment and post any other links you feel would be worth adding to my humble list. If I get some more suggestions, I will compile them and get the posted somewhere safe.
Cheers
Mark
Well its been a while since I last wrote. I seem to keep saying that with blogs.
I guess it takes a creative genius to blog lots, however, I’m sure most of my life is not worth writing about.
My Life Update:
An aerial view of the area where I live.
2: Some new work (maybe)
It looks like I will be a little busier soon, which is good (well so my bank manager tells me)
3: Clarion 7
Yep, just like other testing this, and can’t wait to get clarion.net either.
I’m currently with my kids visiting my folks. Having a nice time, and found an open wireless access point from one of the houses around here, hence I can post this message 
I will try to post more often, but sometime I loose the will <bg>
Cheers for now
Mark