Monday 12th July 2004 : Millers Pub & Restaurant Kings Langley

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This is the same place the last meeting (March 8th) was held at.

Premier Lodge and Millers Pub & Restaurant
Hempstead Road
Kings Langley
Hertfordshire
WD4 8BR (map)

The next meeting is on Monday 12th July 2004 9:00am start - 5:00pm. Kickoff at 09:30am.
Cost of the meeting £60 which includes Buffet Lunch, with Tea & Coffee breaks (and maybe some biscuits).
As the anticipated numbers will be lower there will be ample desk space and power points for your laptops will be provided this time around along with the usual CD containing notes and presentations on the days topics and example apps plus more. 

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Accommodation in Kings Langley
Premier Lodge cost £56.00 per room per night. Breakfast is £6.50 on top.
The Venue (Millers) is part of the Premier Lodge complex so you can stay over night and enjoy part of the Sunday night gathering in the pub with your fellow programmers.


Main Topic: COM in Clarion
"Any version of Clarion can be used to gain full access to Microsoft COM Active Data Objects. No 'add-ons' are necessary. There are actually two methods of achieving this: The 'Names' Method, and the 'COM Object Pointers' Method. In the former case no Microsoft COM knowledge is necessary. In the latter case some knowledge is necessary, but it can be used as a way of understanding how Microsoft COM works ... because it is perfectly possible to 'parallel' both Methods side-by-side. Speaker Veronica Chapman describes the basics of these methodologies with examples." For those that don't know what COM is, its a way of including 3rd party add-ons available to programming languages like VB, C++, into your own applications. These add-ons can be things like Winfax, Internet Explorer, MS Word & Excel and you don't need a clarion template. Duration 2hrs Speaker Veronica Chapman Target Audience: No previous knowledge of COM

Outcome of the Topic votes (voting now closed)

1st place Clarion 6.1 Features Richard Rose 30mins
2nd place EDI/XML Andy Watts 1hr
joint 4th place Fenix Sebastian Talamoni 45mins
joint 4th place Queues Simon Burrows 30mins
5th place Self Updating Apps Simon Burrows 1hr
6th place Internet SQL Simon Burrows 30mins
joint 8th place Setupbuilder Richard Rose 45mins
joint 8th place Icetips SQL templates Richard Rose 1hr
9th place Breaking you app into DLL's Richard Rose 1hr
10th Sterling Data Demo Mike Mcloughlin 30mins
11th Workshop Session 1.5hrs
12th Q&A SQL Richard Rose 30mins
 

Agenda

09:00 Arrival Registration Tea & Coffee
09:30 Queues Simon Burrows
10:00 COM in Clarion Veronica Chapman
11:00 Break Tea & Coffee
11:30 Com in Clarion Veronica Chapman
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Clarion 6.1 Features Richard Rose
14:00 Self Updating Apps Simon Burrows
15:00 Fenix Sebastian Talamoni
15:45 Break Tea & Coffee 
16:15 EDI/XML Andy Watts
17:15 Questions for the days topics
17:30 Safe Journey Home

Topics put forward for the July 12th meeting.

How to break your app up into DLL's (Example App included). Duration 1hr Speaker Richard Rose

EDI is alive, why?  And what is so great about XML anyway (XML Example App included). Duration 1hr Speaker Andy Watts

Workshop Session. Bring your own app with Q & A's Duration 1.5hrs Group free for all.

Sterling Data Template Demo. Duration 30mins Speaker Mike McLoughlin

How to use Queues properly. Duration 30mins Speaker Simon Burrows

Slightly more moral uses for the internet: Using SQL servers over the internet. Duration 30mins Speaker Simon Burrows

Fenix Demonstration. Fenix is a C# & VB.Net Clarion template chain for building database orientated websites. Duration 45mins Speaker Sebastian Talamoni

Clarion 6.1 Release. A quick look at the latest features to be included in the .1 release. Duration 30mins. Speaker Richard Rose.

All Example apps will be in a C6 format with TXA and TXD to provide backward compatibility where possible.

We are always looking for more ideas on Topics and Speakers so if you have any ideas or want to speak drop me Richard Rose an email on richard at isv1 com or call me 01603 886060.  We can even agree an amount for your time speaking! Tell us what you want to see at the next meeting! How about having a get to know each other session where we all spend 5 minutes telling the group what you use Clarion for?

What about product reviews on Web Development tools? SV have released their latest version of the Clarion/ASP templates making them compatible with C6 and have introduced new features and abilities. Fenix continue to amaze their users with the abilities to produce ASP.NET websites for normal browsers and Mobile Devices using VB.net and C#.net code.

What about other 3rd party add-on template reviews? How about faxing from your products?

If you want to come along please complete either the non-members form or members form and send you monies off before July 2nd.
If you want to have a say on what you want to see or do at the next meeting then your vote needs to be received  in order to give the various speakers ample time to prepare properly the chosen topics for you.

Devcon 2004 Review 1 hour. For those that cant come to Devcon we will bring you the lowdown on whats happening with Clarion and SoftVelocity in the future including hopefully a sneak peak of Clarion 7!!!
Anyone thinking of going to the Devcon, contact Richard Rose 01603 886060 or email richard at isv1 com

Last updated 14th May 2004 21:12