What we at Icetips are doing
We will be out of the office for the next couple of weeks or so. We are helping our daughter move. We will be driving a lot and may not have a good internet connection most of the time, so please be patient with us getting back to you 🙂
If you need support, please use our support popup on the website or email us at support at icetips.com.
We are moving and our office will be closed this coming week until at least October 24th.
We are going to be on vacation from today, September 10th to Wednesday, September 21st. We are attending 50 year anniversary of friends of ours in Dublin, Ireland and are going to spend some time traveling in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
I will post photos, but meanwhile here are a couple of Creative Commons photos from Wikimedia 🙂
We at Icetips wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
We hope that 2019 will be a good and prosperous year for all of us!
Clarion 11 testing is going well! But I'm still not done with updating to Clarion 11 compatibility - close but not quite there.
On a very positive note, I have not found any issues at all in Clarion 11! I'm running C10 and C11 side by side and both have worked without a glitch! Softvelocity is releasing Release Candidate (RC) 2 today and announced that Clarion 11 Gold is close, see their latest blog post here: http://clarionsharp.com/blog/clarion-11-rc-2-released/
I apologize how long it's taken me to get these builds out!
Clarion 11 builds are getting closer and I hope to have them all sorted this weekend and push them out next week, starting Monday, October 1st.
One of the changes in Clarion 11 is in the template interface. After many years it has finally happened - the template window has been widened! That presented a bit of a problem with the presentation as now we have two distinct visual designs - one for Clarion 11 and later and one for Clarion 10 and older. The old format we have grown accustomed to over the past 25 years without much change still looks like it always has.
The new template window is considerably wider and fits much better with today's large and high resolution monitors.
Some of our template windows will be updated to take advantage of the added real estate, but I'm not sure if that will all be included in the initial builds for Clarion 11.
One change that will be across all our products - the version number will change to be year.month.build. That will help immediately identify the release time of the template to help with support. As always the version numbers and support information will keep being included on every template window.
Another change that is coming is that by the end of this year we will no longer test or support backward compatibility with the old 16bit Clarion IDE. I have to maintain several 32bit Windows virtual machines, which gets to be quite expensive and the 3GB memory limitation in 32bit operating systems doesn't leave much room for the new IDE along with other development tools. So after January 1st, 2019 we hope to have all demo apps etc. upgraded to Clarion 9 or 10 only and the last builds of 2018 will be the last builds that support Clarion 6 and older. We may leave the installers to support the older IDE for now, but we will no longer support the old IDE. Clarion 6.3.9059 was released in early 2009 and I think 10 years is a pretty good run for a development environment. Time to move on 🙂
Yesterday, Saturday, a customer contacted me and told me that icetips.com was not working. Sure enough the SSL certificate had expired!
It has been fixed now, but it took me a while to figure out exactly where and how I had set up the certificate originally! Icetips is hosted on hostgator.com and after looking at comodo and godaddy and not finding any information about my last certificate I finally figured out that hostgator.com is kind enough to give one SSL certificate for free to their business and re-seller customers! So it was a quick fix after all and the website should be working correctly again - at least it is from our office!
Apologies for any inconvenience this temporary problem may have caused!
We have released Build Automator 2016, build 6.2.1359
The full install can be downloaded from the Build Automator website at http://www.buildautomator.com/downloads.php or by using the "Check for Updates" option under the Help menu in the program.
This build has several fixes including:
There were some bugs in the Clarion 9 and 10 implementation. I have simplified it so it should be easy to add new versions of Clarion as they are released.
The {#INCLUDE()} statement for the "Write Text To File" action had a bug in it causing extra characters to be written at the very end of the final file.
For more information, and some extra tips please read the full blog post on buildautomator.com
On October 15th, 2015 the renewal prices for expired Icetips subscriptions will go up. Until then you can renew for the same price as non-expired subscriptions and save money!
If you go to http://www.icetips.com/compare.php and look at the second table from the top, "Prices for Gold & Silver Subscriptions" you see a column with "Renewal Price Expired"
Those prices do not take effect until October 15th, 2015!
On October 15th all subscriptions that have been expired more than 30 days will have to be renewed at a higher price.
Check it out and log into your account to check your subscription status.
Arnor Baldvinsson
Autumn (or spring, if you're in the Southern Hemisphere) brings changes in weather and landscape, and Icetips, too, has some changes this season.
First, weve made it easier to pay for Icetips software subscriptions by adding automatic billing options and monthly payment options.
To buy a new Gold subscription, you can now make a partial payment of $149 up front, then pay the balance in 11 monthly installments of $15. Or, you can pay for the whole thing up front, as always.
To renew a Gold subscription and have continuous access to all Icetips Software products, updates and support you can opt for a small, ongoing payment of only $15 a month. Or, if you would rather, you can still pay your renewal fee once a year. Now, though, you have the option of having your annual billing paid automatically (and get a discount!).
Solo and Silver subscriptions also have automatic annual payment options and discounts (but no monthly payment options).
For more information about our new payment options, please see our page on recurring/automatic subscriptions.
Icetips introduced the Gold Subscription in 2007 and we have held prices constant since then. Unfortunately, costs have gone up – but we're still keeping our prices as low as we can.
If you opt for automatic renewals, prices will be the same as always. For those who choose to renew their subscriptions manually, prices have increased a small amount.
Some people let a little time go by before renewing their subscriptions. For those who renew their subscriptions over 30 days after the subscription has expired, renewal costs will be slightly higher.
For more information about our new price options, please see our subscription page.
Whether you need just a little extra help, or a whole lot of lot of help, with a new or ongoing software or SQL project, Arnor is available for contract work. $80/hour, 1 hour minimum, references available upon request. For more information about hiring Arnor, please see the Icetips Solutions website.
Twenty years ago this month, Arnor Baldvinsson and Rick Beckemeyer began working together to make a website for Clarion developers. In October of 1995, Icetips.com was born. In the early days, Rick took care of the URL and hosting, while Arnor took care of the website design and content. In 2001, Arnor took over the administrative side, too. Shortly after that, Arnor's business partner and wife, Sue Pichotta, began helping with Icetips' website design and some of the content. There have been a lot of changes over the years, but through it all, Arnor and Sue have always been happy to be part of the Clarion community. We're looking forward to the years ahead. Happy Birthday, Icetips.com!
If you run into any problems with our new subscription system, please let me know! This required a lot of changes and while I have tried to make sure everything is working 100% I may have missed something! So please let me know if you see anything that doesn't look right or if prices are not showing up correctly!
Arnor Baldvinsson