I’m busy getting ready for tonight’s meeting, where I’ll be discussing virtual methods, inheritance, and a whole bunch of other uber-cool things. I’ll make the source code for tonight’s session (as well as the past two sessions) available here on ClarionUserGroups.com later tonight, after the meeting.

See you there!

We recently purchased 4 identical development laptops for the office, and as 1 of the laptops was being unused (It has to go to Namibia sometime), we decided to install Windows Vista Beta 2 on it. We received this version from our Action Pack Subscription, and have later realised it isnt the most stable version out, since RC1 just came out a week ago, but nonetheless we gave it a whirl.

So 5 minutes after installing it, we had to give Clarion a go on it, 1, to see if it would compile, and 2, to see if there are any speed improvements. And boy were we surprised!

I put my XP pro laptop next to the Vista laptop, copied my code over to the Vista laptop, and carefully using both my hands on both mice, I hit “generate all”. The Vista machine “out-compiled” XP by around 5 seconds the first run, 9 seconds the second run, and when I created a dummy global variable on both machines so that the entire app would compile, the Vista machine won by a staggering 18 seconds!

Reading Paul Thurrott’s website about Vista, I realised it isn’t a good idea to upgrade MY machine to the version of Vista we have, but if I could get my hands on RC1, which at 3.2GB’s to download, I would definitely upgrade!

So heres to Vista and Clarion. I just can’t wait!