ClarionMag Holiday Schedule

By David Harms

Posted December 22 2000

This week's double issue wraps up the 2000 publishing year, and the Clarion Magazine office is now closed for the holiday. I wish all of you the best of the Christmas season, and I look forward to seeing you in 2001!

As most of you know, Clarion Magazine publishes four times per month, and in months with five Tuesdays the magazine takes a week off. January is one of those months, and so the next issue of Clarion Magazine will be out Tuesday, January 9th, 2001.

While everyone's away celebrating Christmas, however, the ClarionMag elves will be hard at work, implementing a new web server and magazine delivery software. You can see a sneak preview at www2.clarionmag.com.

The new site doesn't look much different from the current site, and in fact is missing some links and graphics. But under the hood a lot has already changed. The current web site mainly serves static HTML; much of the non-article information on the new site is generated from a MySQL database. This makes many tasks much easier, including formatting and publishing articles, creating article cross-references, and managing links to other sites.

As well, the new site (when fully operational) will sport a number of new features, including (but not limited to):

improved authentication: At present, when you attempt to access a back issue you haven't subscribed to, you get a login screen. The new site informs you that you are a valid subscriber but you don't have access to that page.
better ad management for third party advertisers
frequent user surveys
reader feedback pages
an option to update your personal information, including online password changes

The new site is being developed using a combination of Clarion and Java technology. Servlets, JavaServer Pages, custom tags, and JavaBeans handle the delivery of magazine content to readers, making heavy use of data from a MySQL database, while a Clarion application manages that database. If you're interested in this technology, keep an eye out for my upcoming book on JSPs, Servlets, and MySQL (title not finalized), to be published by Hungry Minds (formerly IDG) in March, 2000.

Dave Harms

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David Harms is an independent software developer and the editor and publisher of Clarion Magazine. He is also co-author with Ross Santos of Developing Clarion for Windows Applications, published by SAMS (1995), and has written or co-written several Java books. David is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).

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Towards the end of 2004 Nardus Swanevelder wrote a series of articles on Clarion's Business rules, and how they could be configured at runtime. In this update, Nardus shows how to use configurable business rules with the In-Memory Driver. SOURCE LINK UPDATED!

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