On Monday this week we ran the first in a series of App in a Day workshops in association with NHS England’s Code4Health Program.
Back in November, Kevin attended an NHS Open Source Open Day and took part in an app hack, which was the starting point for the App in a Day workshop.
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I had the pleasure of hearing from long time LiveCoder, Larry Walker, in regards to his recent successes with LiveCode. This is his story.
Thanks to a referral from the director of my local MakerSpace, I was contacted awhile back by a small, 2-person gene-splicing lab. Maybe not a typical potential client for most LiveCoders, but my town (home to the University of Wisconsin) is a hot-bed of genetics research and spin-off starts-ups, so no big surprise.
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During the last few months, I have been working on the maintenance of LiveCode 6.7.x and LiveCode 7.0.x releases. This mainly involves fixing bugs. I have come across many different types of bug reports in terms of quality and clarity. In this post, I will describe how important is to provide a well-structured bug report as well as some tips on how to produce a high quality bug report.
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Increase your app downloads and revenue by including the ability to localize your app into any language. Work with Arabic, Chinese or Japanese in your app just as easily as English. LiveCode 7 has also been reworked to create apps that are even better native citizens. Its buzz phrase heaven: Cocoa, GTK, 64-bit, the list goes on. It means your apps look and perform better on all platforms.
read moreEach distinct version has its own complete folder – multiple versions will no longer install side-by-side: on
Windows (and Linux), each distinct version will gain its own start menu (application menu) entry; on Mac,
each distinct version will have its own app bundle.
The technology world is a male-dominated industry (except for a few famous female CEOs and several successful girl coders). While male coders still get surprised seeing female programmers at the next desk, more and more girls are taking math exams to enter the IT departments of universities. This means the tech industry is changing and those changes will be evident soon.
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