ClarionLive show notes for March 7 2014

Announcements

SQL CAT coming in April.

ClarionLive open webinar each Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. PST. Bring your questions and issues!

NetTalk user group each Thursday at alternating times, 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. GMT.

Next week: NetTalk 8. 

Please note: the change to daylight savings time happens this weekend, so if you're in a part of the world that doesn't participate in this lunacy (solarcy?) be sure to adjust your time calculations accordingly. 

Some discussion of virtual servers starting at around the 0:16 mark.

Getting Real with Mike Hanson - 0:21

Mike Hanson continued with his take on the 37Signals book. 

"It's a Problem When It's A Problem"

Focus on immediate problems first. Don't overbuild. 

Well, yes and no. Some good discussion on this topic. 

Special Presentation - Mark Goldberg on DebugView++ - 0:30

Mark started off by showing how to display additional Windows clocks. 

Mark's show notes are here.

DebugView++ is a replacement for SysInternals DbgView, with some really nice enhancements such as much better filtering and highlighting, and filtered views on tabs. The mouse highlighting and filtering is really cool too.

Feature Presentation: John Hickey on UltimateNotify 1:12

John gave a brief explanation of what the Clarion Notify function does and how it differs from Post. 

John thinks using Notify requires too much thought. Hence, UltimateNotify:

John provided a detailed demonstration of the class and template that wrap up the whole notify/notification issue in an easy-to-use package, simplifying sending messages between threads. 

John and Mike discussed some possible changes and enhancements. 

At about the 1:45 mark John had pretty much finished his demo, and the conversation turned to ways to improve the code.