These are strange and difficult times. Thanks to COVID-19 we at LiveCode Ltd. are all now working from home, and staying together as a company via Zoom and Slack.
I’m sure many of you are in the same boat, quarantined or semi-quarantined, and trying to keep going without the usual levels of face to face support and company. We’ve been talking about how we can all support each other during this time. We have come up with two options.
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Calling all parents, grandparents, aunties & uncles! We have a couple of hours worth of free entry-level learning courses where you can introduce the kids in your life to coding. Work with them to make the tigers roar or the piano play in our SoundBoard LiveCode learning courses…
During these times maybe you are searching for educational ways to keep your kids entertained, or ideas to stay connected with your grandkids or nieces and nephews remotely. We’ve got something that can help.
read moreIt’s true for many of us that we have extra time on our hands at the moment. That extra time presents the opportunity to start or finish those tasks you’ve always been meaning to do. For me that could have been finally getting round to painting the garden fence five years after it was put up (unpainted), clearing out the garage, or sorting out my junk room – I mean spare room! I can confirm that after what has been about a month of me being at home I have not started any of those jobs. I have however tried to build a mini-golf course in my back garden and, which you may be more interested in hearing about, got stuck into some coding challenges.
read moreBud Nail recently got in touch to tell us about his environmentally friendly digital display project in LiveCode, a fascinating project that Bud is trying to raise funds for on KickStarter. He has kindly agreed to do a guest blog post to tell us all about the project…
First, just a little bit of background on FlipBit. You can go deeper by visiting our KickStarter page. Recently, I was looking for a project that would keep my intern, Alex, interested as he learns to use design and fabrication tools. I had been mentally designing what might be called a mechanical pixel for many years. Typically, it would come to mind when on a long boring drive with nothing much to look at but trees and roadside signs. I had mentally tested and rejected many approaches for cost and complexity reasons, but at some point I finally focused in on what I thought was probably an optimum design. Alex became my inspiration to finally get the design out of the gray matter and into something tangible.
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The LiveCode community is vital to the success of our platform. We want to ensure the community voice is heard loud and clear. To this end, we approached a leading and respected member of the LiveCode community known for his outstanding contributions and for his extremely successful LiveCode built apps.
We asked Trevor DeVore, Director of Technology at ScreenSteps if he would like to interview Kevin & Mark, asking all the questions that he might have as an active LiveCode community member. Trevor kindly agreed and came up with some excellent questions which we are sure will be of interest to a wide audience!
read moreUnless you have been avoiding your mailbox recently you will know that LiveCode 8 has launched with the first iteration of LiveCode widgets written in the LiveCode Builder Language. LiveCode 8 marks the beginning of the new for the LiveCode platform.
Today, LiveCode lets us build powerful applications faster. We have a powerful and productive programming language that is close to the way we speak and think, we have a tool that enables rapid app development, we can deploy apps to all major platforms from one code base. Imagine if we had a thriving extensions EcoSystem with thousands of useful widgets and libraries that you can use in your application without the need to expand your team size or programming ability. As things stand you can open up LiveCode and drag out useful objects, customise them in the Property Inspector and you have a fully functioning object that would have required hand coding in previous versions. This will forever be useful but it does leave you wanting more, more widgets, more functionality, more usefulness, more productivity.
Introducing the Infinite LiveCode campaign.
What does Infinite LiveCode mean to you, as an end user? Suppose you do not yourself feel you have the time, ability or inclination to write new widgets or extensions for the platform, how does it benefit you?
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To celebrate the launch of LiveCode 8 we held a special launch webinar where we gave a demo of some of the exciting new features and took your questions live. We have included these questions and answers below as well as some of the questions we just didn’t get round to answering.
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mergMK is a LiveCode MapKit external that adds a map control which supports showing user location with heading, adding annotation pins and polylines. Create stunning interactive maps with ease. Important: The Map Kit framework uses Google services to provide map data pre-iOS 6. Use of specific classes of this framework (and their associated interfaces) binds you to the Google Maps/Google Earth API terms of service.
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