The onebillion Connection

by Heather Laine on December 16, 2016 No comments

Our current Holiday Season offer features a limited edition set of LiveCode books. What makes them a limited edition is the special cover design featuring onebillion, and the donation we are making from each sale to this organisation.

But who are onebillion, and why are we supporting them?

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Nasa – Landsat

by Heather Laine on December 1, 2015 No comments

Landsat 7 Satellite On-Orbit Flight Automation System

“It’s a high-level language with a low-level of frustration.”

Developing a wide variety of apps quickly to meet changing project needs is critical to the USGS team who monitor the NASA Landsat 7 satellite.

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The Maths App

by Heather Laine on November 1, 2015 No comments

How Eurotalk used LiveCode to develop a No.1 educational app in many iTunes stores. The Maths App has now gone on to become the cornerstone of the Onebillion charity initiative to bring education to marginalized children everywhere.

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Prototek

by Heather Laine on October 25, 2015 No comments

“Thank you for a great product. It has saved me hundreds of thousands of dollars of engineering budget. No question about it.”

That’s what Charlie Faddis, Technology Director and co-founder of Prototek told us. He went on to say:

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University of Vienna

by Heather Laine on October 12, 2015 No comments

The University of Vienna required a robust and fit for purpose management system to address the day to day running of this thriving learning environment. It has 9400 employees attending to 91,000 enrolled students taking 188 courses of which 56 are Bachelor Programmes, 117 Master Programmes, 4 Diploma Programmes and 11 PhD Programmes.  They use a solution built on LiveCode to manage all this. We spoke to Hartmut Eich, from the software development team at the University about their choice of LiveCode.

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Why Rainbows and Leprechauns Cut no Ice in Edinburgh

by Heather Laine on September 23, 2015 27 comments

Quite a number of users are asking why the Feature Exchange? Why do we not just produce these features for you, without asking for (yet more) money?

Let me pose a different question:

How do you fund development on a complex and powerful open source tool which requires large amounts of love, care, attention and development?

Money does not grow on trees, nor is there a pot of it at the end of the rainbow. We know. We’ve checked.

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