Clarion Desktop

Clarion Desktop 4.11

Gary James — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:50:12 +0200

Clarion Desktop 4.11 has just been released.

Instead of adding new features into this build, I decided to remove some!

Firstly, I've removed the "Groups" and "Blogs" menus. Blogs are now displayed on the main page, and the User Groups menu has contained a total of 4 groups for the past year, so I've taken it out (for now).

I also decided to remove the Instant Messenger, which I added just over two months ago. I still think this is a nice idea, but it needs to be rebuilt. Watch this space.

The reason for removing these features is that I'm trying to streamline the product, so that it's even easier to use. With that goal in mind, I've added a new "Help" menu which I'll be adding items to in the next version.

Clarion Desktop v4.10 Available!

Gary James — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:25:38 +0200

Last night I released Clarion Desktop version 4.10.

This build includes a significant fix (relating to the ajax code that I added to 4.09), and is also the first version of Clarion Desktop to be compiled using Clarion 6.3.9058 - I've been using 9056 for the past couple of months.

If you find any regressions please let me know asap. Thanks!

Ever used the Search field?

Gary James — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:23:08 +0200

Three things surprised me at last night's local Clarion User Group meeting.

First, 18 Clarion programmers attended!!! I had no idea there were so many of us in a single country.

Second, of those 18 developers only 5 had heard of Clarion Desktop! That's 27.8%!

Considering that there are currently 762 Clarion developers who use Clarion Desktop, does this mean that perhaps 762 is only 27.8% of the total number of Clarion programmers on earth? Could there in fact be 2,744 of us!?

But the third surprise was the real shocker..

NO ONE in the group had used Clarion Desktop's "Search" field. Why? Because no one knew what it did. Most guys had never thought about it, or assumed that it was just a regular search field.

It isn't! It's an uber-cool, custom search field, that uses Google to search a limited number of websites, that all have something to do with Clarion. In other words, if you use it to search for "PDF", it will only return results from Clarion-related websites. Make sense?

What's my password?

Gary James — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:36:53 +0200

How daft is this?!

Clarion Desktop can detect which 3rdParty products you own, it can notify you when new updates are available for those products, it can download, archive and install those updates for you, it can even enter the installer passwords for you! But..

When suppliers login to the ClarionDesktop.com website they have to enter their login passwords manually!

I finally corrected that this morning. From now on Firefox will enter your login password for you.

Clarion Desktop Instant Messenger!

Gary James — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:11:13 +0200

I spent some time this weekend building an Instant Messenger module for Clarion Desktop!

It's still rough around the edges, but it's working quite nicely. I'll be releasing it later in the week.

I'm also going to make some changes to the "Clarion Bloggers" module to indicate more clearly which blogs the various headlines are coming from.

Clarion Desktop 4.09 - Now Featuring Clarion Bloggers!

Gary James — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:59:51 +0200

Clarion Desktop 4.09 is available for download!

I've created a new section to display the latest posts from a variety of Clarion bloggers!

To kick things off, this new area will display posts from ClarionFolk, as well as Clarion-related posts from StrategyOnline.

Please feel free to submit your suggestions for additional blogs using the comments section below.

ClarionLife.NET added to Links menu

Gary James — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:32:29 +0200

I've just added a link to ClarionLife.net to Clarion Desktop's Links menu. This will be included in the next release.

I also recently added a link to Gus' new blog.

I'm thinking it's time to either expand the Groups menu, or simply delete it. Any thoughts?

New Clarion Desktop News Feed

Gary James — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:52:14 +0200

Now that Clarion Desktop has its own fancy website, it made sense to change the "Latest Clarion Desktop News" block to stop showing RSS headlines from Strategy, and to rather show the headlines from ClarionDesktop.com.

So, as of 20 minutes ago, that what's happening!

Clarion Desktop now has 700 users!

Gary James — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:12:57 +0200

Clarion Desktop now has 702 users!

I seem to recall that 700 was my "dream number" when Clarion Desktop was released many moons ago..

It's exciting to see so many Clarion developers using a tool like Clarion Desktop. Heck, it's exciting to see so many Clarion developers! :)

I'm aiming to release a new build of Clarion Desktop next week, which will possibly include some new features that I've been working on.

More news to follow!

New Forums!

Gary James — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:32:57 +0200

We now have forums here on the ClarionDesktop.com website. Please feel free to participate.