Today is the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year, and in the U.S., where I live, it is Veterans Day. It’s a day to honor all those who have served our country. Whether they saw combat, or served during times of peace, all who have worn the uniform of any of the five branches of the U.S. Military, are heroes and we salute them.
We have a busy week coming up next week. The end-user version of Report Writer will be officially available for purchase, we have a new release of C8 scheduled, and we’ll do the first release of the .Net AppGen. This weekend we’ll setup the SVN repository for the .Net templates and next week we’ll push out a new Clarion.Net install with the .Net AppGen. We plan to do a video tutorial for template writers and the following week, after folks have had a chance to get their feet wet, we’ll do a webinar to answer template writing questions, and questions on using the templates.
Clarion 8 gold shipped out on August 29th, and we want to thank all of our users who helped us get here. Version 8 has over 90 new features and improvements, about 100 changes/optimizations, and over 350 bug fixes. And as of today you should have received notifications with download links for the version 8 add-on drivers.
During the early-release phase we worked closely with a few Clarion developers who were in the process of deploying applications based on version 8 into the field. Robert Paresi of InnQuest had one of the largest deployments, and as of about a week ago had successfully deployed his roomMaster application, based on the Clarion RTL version 8, to about 1900 sites (most sites have multiple workstations). His successful deployment (after a few tweaks to the RTL), helped us close down version 8 with a lot of confidence, thanks Robert!
Looking forward to seeing some of you at the CIDC conference in just a short few weeks! We’ll be posting here each day of the conference making sure you get the latest information even if you can’t attend.
We still get asked about subscription renewals; if you purchased your CSP twelve months or more ago, then you are up for renewal. So if you haven’t already done so, you should jump over to the web site and renew your subscription today.
A new update is going out right now, and next week v8 installs will go out for all our add-on products; a gold release is likely within 1-2 weeks. After the gold release we’ll start to let loose some of the new features that are being done in the background, but are not yet ready for release to production.
We pushed out a new C8 update today with a nice set of fixes and improvements, check it out and see what you think.