Canela Software

by Jana Doughty on November 5, 2015 No comments

The advantage of using LiveCode is the speed of iteration and ability to write the code once and deploy onto multiple platforms. LiveCode lets us concentrate on providing great solutions. We use it to improve on things quickly and continuously. This ensures that we always deliver the best experience for our users.

Mark TallutoCEO, Canela Software

Top Benefits

  • Unique to the vision care industry, Canela iss able to release on both Mac and Windows platforms with LiveCode.
  • LiveCode allows Canela to develop new features faster than its competitors whom are using Java, Visual Basic, and C.
  • With LiveCode’s natural language syntax, which is quick to read and write, Canela’s technical support continues to amaze due to Canela’s ability to respond to customer needs quickly.

About Canela Software

Canela Software has developed the leading Vision Testing System in the western hemisphere. Canela’s benefits include:

  • Increased accuracy of eye testing
  • Test the untestable
  • Increased productivity with 50% more patients being attended with the same number of staff
  • Integrates with electronic patient records
  • Integrates with other diagnostic equipment
  • Portable capability allows vision care providers the ability to deliver the service off site and undertake analysis at any location
  • SaaS allows the user to pay for the service only when they need it.

About the Project

Canela needed to develop an integrated digital visual acuity system that would increase eye testing accuracy and productivity. Using a small team of developers, Canela needed the ability to deploy its software to multiple platforms efficiently.

Challenges

To effectively participate in its targeted growth markets, Canela had to design a comprehensive set of technologies. Not only did Canela developers have to continue development on vision testing software, they also had to create licensing, CRM, auto update, credit card processing, and in-app purchasing technologies. On top of that, Canela designed CassiaDB, a custom database, to tie all of this together. These were large challenges for a small team to deliver, but with LiveCode, Canela made it all work.

Results

Canela is now the top visual acuity system in the western hemisphere with over 9,000 installations. All of the technologies Canela developed, including CassiaDB, were written entirely in LiveCode. With LiveCode, Canela was able to use out-of-the box features to design its service. Canela Software is currently augmenting its desktop and server business with mobile tie-ins. This is an inclusive approach to providing Canela solutions on any device and it secures Canela’s place in the market as it looks into the future.

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Midnight Rises – Alex Seropian

by Jana Doughty on November 3, 2015 No comments

“LiveCode is a robust engine that is really well suited to our project. It has built-in support for creating page based experiences and LiveCode’s scripting system is super fast for prototyping and very flexible for creating many different kinds of views and input schemes.”

 

Midnight Rises is an interactive graphic novel that Alex Seropian created using LiveCode.

1. How would you describe Midnight Rises in 140 characters or less?

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How Film Sets and Coding are Equally Important

by Jana Doughty on October 6, 2015 No comments

Edinburgh. Raining. The whinny of a horse blares through the window, as numerous bowler hats and long skirts walk past. We hear “Action,” more whinnies, and then “CUT!”

Thistle Street Lane South West, where LiveCode lives, is dressed with Victorian influence from fake bricks layered over the real ones that line the street to fake poo that’s sprinkled on top of the straw next to the goats and chickens.

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How to Go to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

by Jana Doughty on August 18, 2015 7 comments

Have you ever been in a place where the population triples for 30 days and no one can walk anywhere faster than a trendy grandmother?

Have you ever had countless performers get in your face with flyers and pitches to see their shows?

Have you heard of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival takes over the city for the month of August. There are street musicians, buskers, open beer gardens, food trucks, DJs, dancers, acrobats, and living statues galore.

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Adam Hyde

by Jana Doughty on August 3, 2015 No comments

“I think LiveCode made it possible for our organization to produce this app. Without it, we wouldn’t have had the ability to do it.”

 

Adam is a Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Volunteer. His team needed an easy way to educate boaters about water safety, so they created a Safe Boating App with LiveCode that details all the ins and outs of boating safety and educates boaters with the aim to protect and save their lives.

1. Please tell us a little about yourself.

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Rotunda Software

by Jana Doughty on August 1, 2015 No comments

We chose LiveCode because it addressed all of our needs. It is cross platform, can run on the server side, and was an ideal choice for our thinkclient and cloud based software architecture.

David BeckManaging Director

Top Benefits

  • The time from new feature conception to implementation is very fast. With LiveCode, implementation of new features takes days when it would take weeks or months in other traditional environments.
  • Upfront and ongoing costs are affordable. Building the app and implementing new features is very affordable.
  • Leveraging on Linux. By leveraging LiveCode on Linux, Rotunda Software was able to reuse some of its client logic on the server side, which continues to be incredibly powerful.

About Rotunda Software

Rotunda Software is based in San Francisco and specializes in developing Volunteer Management Software.

Challenges

Rotunda Software needed to develop a best value, highly effective volunteer scheduling system that volunteers could access from a browser with no training.

The system had to be able to handle the complexity of scheduling, be available from the browser as a Cloud Based Service (SaaS), deliver a great user experience for volunteers to check their schedules, and it had to offer best value.

Results

Rotunda Software created a successful Volunteer Scheduling System app with LiveCode and now has over 2,000 customers.

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Gayane Ghandilyan – Digital Pomegranate

by Jana Doughty on July 29, 2015 No comments

“We found out that with Livecode we can be very productive for mobile development. This is true, specially for those people who have never programmed before. Now, Livecode is the main development language at Digital Pomegranate.”

 

Gayane Ghandilyan didn’t know how to program. When she graduated from university and became the Operations Officer at Digital Pomegranate, a startup tech company, she realized the importance in everyone learning to code, including herself. After learning LiveCode, Gayane and the Digital Pomegranate team were able to efficiently, effectively, and consistently develop multi-platform apps in Armenia.

1. Why did you decide to learn to code?

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Jana DoughtyGayane Ghandilyan – Digital Pomegranate