Clarion Folk

Here’s an idea.

It’s based around a Time (and Project) Management understanding.

1. Not your normal management system. The main point of this web server is to get people to actually note down what they have done for the day.
2. It will monitor the times they have logged in.
3. It will send reminders out at set times.
4. For each day, the User logs in and inserts a new record. They give: Start Time, End Time, Projects Worked On (String, autocomplete, maybe del.icio.us type functionality), point form description of work done for the day.

Notes:

Not sure how reliable this would be. The System’s “police-ing” functionality can only go so far.

But it would make people think through what they have done. And management can get all the good stats, be able to see people’s frequency, _when_ they are entering their times.

I’m never sure what to do when Bob Z drops a bit of info in to me. Whether to blog it, hit the newsgroups, jump on skype.

See, I get a little nervous. Why? Because I can hear the cries of angst and trouble.

“Why aren’t they concentrating on bugs?”

“When is the AppGen done?”

“What is GTA IV doing in the SV office?”

Here goes.

Support for Linq (MS Site, and Wikipedia) is being added to Clarion#.

I like this. Means we’ve got another enticement to grow the community, and another facet that strengthens our competitive advantage.

At least, that’s how I see it.

Clarion is part of a massive huge list of Hello World programs.

Here’s the list, and here’s the Clarion entry.

There’s a lot of programs and languages (including human ones) in the list. It would seem we have a lot of ways to say the same thing. To make the same thing.

I wonder if there was a “Tower of Babel” for programming? Like did everyone get together one day, intent on building “The One” language? It might have gone something like this:

Mr. X - “Compiler is everything.”

Mr. Y - “Un-Typed vars!”

Mrs. S - “Restrictive variable names.”

Miss Y - “As we speak it!”

Suddenly the room erupts in a vicious nerd argument. As we know, these are the worst. Name calling and scratching and plotting revenge with a twenty-three sided dice.

Alas, due to hubris and other plant-sounding words, “The One” language was never built. To this day, it’s ruins can be seen scattered throughout the various “lesser” languages.

True story.

Three cheers! Huzzah!

Geoff just sent an email out, and check this out. What a fantastic show of support from the 3rd Party Clarion Community.

Kudos to you all!