What is a Chief Data Officer? "The Chief Data Officer is a Policy, Procedures, Standards and Management Position". So what does all this mean, and why is it important? Tune in Friday and find out!

What is Analyze.It!? Analyze.It! is a template/class add-on that will allow you to collect data from your applications. Simply drop-in the Analyze-It! global template, fill out a few prompts, and you're ready to go!

Data you can collect includes:

* When your application is open and when it's closed
* Details on the computer the app is running on, including Windows version, screen resolution, and more
* Which Procedures are being used, with Procedure tracking
* Automatic GPF reporting
* Did your program just "disappear"? Analyze.It! can report that to you!
* Define custom data you may want to collect (license key, maintenance expiration, etc)
* Add your own "trackers", to collect data on specific application usage. For example, if you've just introduced a new feature, is anyone using it? Add a tracker and find out!

We'll demonstrate the template/class, show it in use with a sample app, and go behind-the-scenes to see what's under the hood!

Well, the title says it all, doesn't it??! Tune in for another terrific Don Ridley webinar!

This week, Mike Hanson continues to continue to continuously continue to continue onward to explore how to write less code for hand-coded lists. All techniques will be considered and applied, included classes, templates, etc.

We have many tools at our disposal to manage and monitor systems and applications: Logs, Data, Dashboards, Monitoring, Test systems, and more.

While all of these things are helpful, they all create more work. None of us need more work to do.

Debugview (and the OutputDebugString that populates it) is super handy and is the tool of choice for many of us. The problem with Debugview is that you can’t leave it running all day. It sucks up ram and CPU, particularly in high volume situations.

These things hounded me. I have 3 API servers (or 5, depending on the context), 6-7 web servers and while I can RDP into any of them to open Debugview and see what’s going on – I have to KNOW that something is going on.
That points us at notifications – but all they do is make sure that we’re the first one who knows about the problem (usually).

Bottom line, all of these servers and the cognitive load they place on you with their incessant “Hey, I’m doing this”, “Hey, I’m doing that”, and “Hey I’m not feeling too good, better give me some attention” ended up leading me down the path to a solution, which exposed another situation.

The ultimate solution I found, the situation I discovered, and the current state of the solution I created to cure my situation are the real subjects of Arnold’s 2019-2020 double feature birthday webinar. It’s a double feature because it has 31 more slides than the largest slide deck I’ve ever presented from (the previous max was 3).

If you’re spinning plates to keep everything running, this might be a helpful webinar for you.

Our programs interact with the outside world, and the string encoding we use, and the string encoding they use need to match up. A practical exploration using Chrome Explorer as a working example.

For 30 years Clarion programmers have studiously ignored Unicode, and all matters related to string encodings. But Clarion UStrings are coming, and understanding the basics of Unicode, and encodings, is going to matter. This webinar is an entry to a Brave New World." (It's 2020, what could possibly go wrong?)

This week, Mike Hanson continues to continue to continuously continue to continue to explore how to write less code for hand-coded lists. All techniques will be considered and applied, included classes, templates, etc.

It started as some quick code to parse a Json file and create a Clarion queue from it. Bruce started playing with that, and added things, then more things, and even more things... and now it practically writes the whole procedure for you! It even handles things like queues in queues! This week, Bruce will be demonstrating this terrific addition to jFiles!

With Covid-19 changing the way many people work - I'll be reviewing some of the utilities and apps that I use on a daily basis that help me manage mine and my teams development tasks, ranging from simple utilities built into Windows 10, to online admin and planning tools.

This week, Robert will be showing us all the new and exciting features that he's been adding to DCT2SQL! If you need to create SQL scripts from your Clarion Dictionary, this is the tool to use... and it's free!

This week, Mike Hanson continues to continue to continuously continue to explore how to write less code for hand-coded lists. All techniques will be considered and applied, included classes, templates, etc.

This week Don Ridley will be presenting Clarion and .NET Interop!

Quick review of enabling COM interop in a .NET DLL project. (Huge THANK YOU to Mark Sarson!!)
How to handle .NET events other than click events.
Why it doesn't work with a Registration Free assembly.
How to make it work.
Handling the events in Clarion.
How to serve GPS data from .NET assembly and what you can do with it.
And more...!

This week, Robert will be demonstrating his RYB (Run Your Business) template collection!

From the description on GitHub:

These are a set of functional templates. Some that I use every day in a number of working projects.

They provide a number of practical developer aids for tracking multi-dll applications across the complete system, apply globally consistent changes to inconsistent cosmetic standards being used over a period of time, to making sure that where you are can be identified to track possible errors.

These are a collection of a lot of odd type items that have been built over a period of time and have made it into some commercial vendors utilities due to their usefulness over time being proven. There are better items than some of these utilities in commercial, free offerings, and out in the wild of the internet. There are some utilities that have made into the skype chats or newsgroups and have been added here. There are some same or similar requests that come up every now and then for some of these items.

When the author can be identified, they are given credit. When no author can be identified, that fact is noted and hopefully someone will come and claim the utility. This is just a place to collect these utilities and functionality and make it available to all for their use and enjoyment.

There a few items that are marked as "experimental" and are not completely worked out or tested in some environments. As much due diligence has been done as possible. The SQL disconnect/reconnect templates came from different sources and work in some specific environments. Be aware, and exercise extreme care. Do not use these SQL templates without extensive testing in a NON-PRODUCTION environment.

Update.It! is a complete management system for your Clarion 3rd party templates. This week, John and Mary will take you through how to setup and use Update.It!, as well as introduce several new features. What are these new features? Tune in to find out! (hint: one of them makes it easy to document what templates you're using where in your applications!).

We'll also look "under the hood" to see how Update.It! was constructed, including different templates and products used throughout the program.

This week, Mike Hanson continues to continue to continue to explore how to write less code for hand-coded lists. All techniques will be considered and applied, included classes, templates, etc.

In Webinar 545, Bruce began a series on how to write Templates. This is part 4 of that series! Series: #545, #548, #558, #573

Bureaucracies around the world, whether Civilian or Government, and if Government, the Military, all communicate with each other through messages. In WW2, there were the Code Talkers.

Messages are many different types, forms, and have massively different physical constraints. Code Talkers, XML, JSON, CSV, etc. Some are even just binary strings.

Regardless, all messages are really just transmit Information. Further, all messages are structured. There are no truly unstructured messages. That said, if you are able to observe say a half dozen different messages from different forms that contain the exact same information it might be impossible to know that they are the same.

And if some of those messages are US Navy, and others are U.S. Army and other are US Air Force, even if the information content is identical the forms, size and other constraints will likely make all the messages totally different one from another.

So, this presentation is an approach to divide this "problem" into two parts. The first is about THE Knowledge, and the second is about the messages. It is believed that all messages that are intended to contain the same information are able to be commonly understood via the Knowledge from which the message is derived.

It is hoped that if funding can be achieved for this effort, the result will be a strategy for 1) Developing the Knowledge (with an example from the Information Exchange Models from NATO for Command & Control), 2) Developing Messages derived from this Knowledge into different forms, and 3) showing how messages can be examined one to another in terms of their structure and contained "data" that, in the end, shows that the messages are the same. They would be the same because they are derived from the same Knowledge.

What will be posted is 480 minute version of this presentation. The posting will be done later this weekend.

This week, Mike Hanson continues to continue to explore how to write less code for hand-coded lists. All techniques will be considered and applied, included classes, templates, etc.

This week, Dries and Bijan will be showing TSplus Version 14 Features, including:

* Progressive WebApp
* Virtual Printer
* New License Manager
* Advanced Security
* TSplus Web Portal file upload features
* HTML5 Settings
* Drag and Drop
* Running a Clarion program after the file upload. A joint effort by Dries and Bijan
* Calling a Clarion host app(your app) with the location of the uploaded file.

The documentation and the example apps will be released before the webinar.

Secwin 7 is an all-new imagining of program security and is a massive redesign from Secwin 6. Over 10 000 lines of new code, 4000 lines of new template code, 100 pages of new documentation and a live release webinar showing it all off. What could possibly go wrong with that?

Join us this Friday to find out!

This week.... Secwin 7 For NetTalk 12 Server!

This week, Mike Hanson continues to explore how to write less code for hand-coded lists. All techniques will be considered and applied, included classes, templates, etc.

Advantages of using a local Class as a replacement for Procedure Routines. Do2Class utility makes the required changes for you.

Mike Hanson is going to explore how to write less code for hand-coded lists. All techniques will be considered and applied, included classes, templates, etc.

This week Jane will be taking us through the mysteries of Window's Active Directory! What is Active Directory? What is it for? How is it used? Tune in for the answers to these questions and more!