A Toast to the Global Jam

The global jam is over! First things first: apologies for the toast/jam pun, I probably shouldn’t have skipped breakfast.

Life is somewhat back to normal here at LiveCode HQ – although there are some tired faces (probably due to the fact that most of us were chatting LiveCode well beyond our scheduled hours). This is a testament to those of you that participated in and engaged with the event productively. It could only have been successful with the full support of the community!

Thank you to the 150-odd participants who helped identify, confirm, and fix encountered issues. Thanks especially to Charles Warwick, Bernd Niggemann, Monte Goulding, and Trevor DeVore who submitted pull requests to fix various issues (all of which are included in the latest build of 8.0 DP 7!!).

Approximately 60 issues were identified and confirmed during the course of the global jam and roughly half of those identified were fixed during the event.

We were building LiveCode continually during the global jam, releasing two builds with some of these fixes in them. The third (the actual DP 7) is on the way.

As well a working on some of the more overt issues, we also found time to squeeze a number of performance improvements into the global jam builds. So the following things should all be faster in 8.0 dp 7:

• Number to string conversion
• String concatenation
• The get command
• Single byte fetching

There are also some more improvements on the way.

The two webinars that took place during the global jam are now up online:

Watch Trevor DeVore speak on the joys of LC 8’s widget technology:

Watch Richard Gaskin speak on how to get what you want from LiveCode:

And Peter’s technical ‘Ask Me Anything’ is available to re-read here. You’re welcome. 🙂

What’s next? We will continue to fix as many of the reported issues as possible, release more developer previews of 8.0, listen to your feedback, and keep improving LiveCode until it’s ready for a final release.

Thank you again for helping to make LiveCode 8 great! #LCGR8