LassoSoft Newsletter
November (in December!), 2009

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FileMaker Developers,

We're back from the 2009 Lasso Developer Conference, and it was a
fantastic event! Attendees had a great time learning about Lasso,
networking with fellow members of the Lasso Community, and making new
acquaintances while catching up with long-time friends. The LassoSoft
Team appreciates everyone who participated in this year's event, and we
look forward to seeing you all again in 2010.

This newsletter is full of the latest news and information about Lasso
and it's developers. We have a few exciting announcements to share with
you, and the Lasso Community has been busy, as well. For all the juicy
details, please read below.


This month's newsletter has the following topics:
* Lasso 9 Release Date
* 2009 Lasso Developer Conference Content
* 2009/2010 Lasso Developer Conference survey
* Lasso Professional Alliance Survey
* Core Five Releases Open Source FileManager for CKEditor
* Open Source Week Calendar for Lasso using Knop and Jquery
* Lfor - Open-Source Forums Application
* itPage - Open-Source CMS for Lasso
* Object-Oriented Programming and Lasso 9 Primer

Happy Coding,

The LassoSoft Team

===============================================================Lasso 9 Release Date
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LassoSoft is very excited to announce that Lasso 9, the fastest, most
powerful version of Lasso ever created, will be released in early
January, 2010. This version of Lasso is the culmination of years of hard
work and dedication by LassoSoft, and unwavering loyalty and support
from the Lasso Community.

Special Offer!

* Get Started with Lasso 9 Today: Buy Lasso 9 (in final beta)
<http://store.lassosoft.com/lasso9.lasso>
* Get Ready for Lasso 9: Buy Lasso 8.5 (and receive Lasso 9 for
free!) <https://store.lassosoft.com/lp8.lasso>

For more information and details, please visit the Lasso 9 section of
LassoSoft.com <http://www.lassosoft.com/Products/Lasso9/index.lasso>.

==============================================================09 Lasso Developer Conference Content
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We've created a LassoSoft channel on YouTube, and it's now been
populated with content from this year's Lasso Developer Conference in
Amsterdam: <http://www.youtube.com/user/LassoSoft>

The content is organized by each day that it was presented, and the
videos are in the order that the presenters were scheduled. For easier
management (and to abide by YouTube's policies), the presentations have
been divided into segments. For quick reference, each segment is
numbered and labeled in sequential order.

At this time, Sessions and Advanced Tracks are available. As time
allows, we will work to offer additional content, such as Beginner
Tracks, Round Tables, etc.

Presenters who have uploaded their content to Slideshare
<http://www.slideshare.net/event/2009-lasso-developer-conference/slideshows>
have the applicable links to that content listed on their video pages of
the LassoSoft YouTube channel. Not all presenters have uploaded their
content yet, and are encouraged to do so (please notify us if you do).

If any Conference Attendees have video content from the LDC that they
would like to see included on the LassoSoft channel, please send an
email to <info@lassosoft.com> with details.

We plan to organize both a LassoTech article and LassoSoft.com page with
this information, in the near future. Stay tuned!

We hope you enjoy the videos from this year's event, and look forward to
seeing you all again next year.

==============================================================09/2010 Lasso Developer Conference survey
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LassoSoft would like to hear from you!

We're asking for feedback on the 2009 Lasso Developer Conference
(LDC09), held in Amsterdam this past October. We're also asking for
feedback for the upcoming 2010 Lasso Developer Conference (LDC10).

The survey is comprised of two pages:

The first page is related to LDC09, and the second to LDC10. We ask
that for the LDC09 portion, only people who attended the LDC09 provide
feedback on that event. We invite everyone to offer feedback on the
upcoming LDC10.

Our goal is to continue providing the best conference possible for our
Lasso Community. This is the chance to make your voice heard and let us
know what you're thinking. We appreciate your time and assistance with
our efforts to bring you a rockin' event in 2010!

To take the survey:
<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=YxEm5KnTrzX2GXQy8VTEPg_3d_3d>

===============================================================Lasso Professional Alliance Survey
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LassoSoft will soon be making a big push to improve the Lasso
Professional Alliance and bring as much value as possible to it's
Members. In doing so, we could use your help and feedback! We would
appreciate it if you could take a moment to participate in an online survey.

There are two separate surveys: one for previous (but not current) LPA
Members, and one for never-before-been (aka: Non) Members. Please
choose accordingly and accurately.

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Previous Members:
http://www.sonorait.com/respond/auth?o=1210&p=339&q=8172818111
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Non Members: http://www.sonorait.com/respond/auth?o=1211&p=339&q=0372818111
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This feedback will assist us with deciding which areas to focus on, and
the general direction of the LPA in the future. If you'd like to
contact us directly, please feel free to send an email to
<info@lassosoft.com>.

We'd like to point out that this is a Lasso based survey from Laguna
Survey <http://www.sonorait.com/lagunasurvey/>. We'd like to thank our
partner Lars Gundersen at Sonora IT for working with us to bring this to
the Lasso Community.

===============================================================Core Five Releases Open Source FileManager for CKEditor
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Core Five Creative recently announced the availability of FileManager,
an open source, web-based file browsing utility designed to integrate
with inline HTML editors such as CKEditor <http://ckeditor.com/> and its
predecessor, FCKEditor.

Many users of FCKEditor have been stuck without an upgrade path to the
vastly improved CKEditor 3.0, since the new version ships without a
built-in file browser. The software's creators, CKSource, offer a
commercial add-on, CKFinder, but it only includes connectors for a
handful of server-side languages. FileManager rectifies this by
providing a simple javascript API for which connectors can be written in
your server-side language of choice. For the initial release, an example
connector is provided for Lasso, with plans to include additional
connectors in future releases. Contributions are encouraged.

Complete details about the release, as well as installation instructions
and an API reference, are available from the Core Five Labs blog:
<http://labs.corefive.com/2009/10/30/an-open-file-manager-for-ckeditor-3-0/>

===============================================================Open Source Week Calendar for Lasso using Knop and Jquery
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The jquery-week-calendar plugin provides a simple and flexible way of
including a weekly calendar in your application. It is built on top of
jquery and jquery ui and is inspired by other online weekly calendars
such as Google calendar. It's based on a Jquery plugin, WeekCalendar,
using Lasso on Knop on the server side.

This open source application was originally introduced at the 2009 Lasso
Developer Conference by Jolle Carlestam, and it's a valuable and
time-saving tool that has been provided by him to the Lasso Community.

Features include:
* Adding, updating and deleting of calendar events using jquery-ui
dialog
* Dragging and resizing of calendar events
* Restricted timeslot rendering based on business hours,
* Allowing event overlap with staggered rendering of overlapping events
* Calendar can be localised through Knop
* Available languages: English, Swedish, Danish - additional
languages are easily added
* Events can be exported as iCalendar files
* Events can be imported into the calendar in the form of Icalendar
files (.ics)
* CSS rules are isolated enabling integration into a site without
css rules bleeding into or from the calendar

The code is available on the Google code Knop site:
<http://code.google.com/p/knop/source/browse/#svn/Third%20party%20Add-ons/Knop%20Week%20Calendar>

The Week Calendar list is here:
<http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-week-calendar>

The Knop mailing-list can be subscribed to here:
<http://montania.se/projects/knop/>

===============================================================Lfor - Open-Source Forums Application
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Iterate LLC recently announced the immediate availability of Lfor, an
open-source forums application for the Lasso language from LassoSoft.
Lfor was demonstrated in a roundtable at the 2009 Lasso Developer
Conference, in Amsterdam.

Lfor is a forums application which allows users to sign up, follow a
forum, create topics, and add messages. Each message may have a photo
attached. Users must sign up to use the forums, and may have up to five
postnames. To be able to post, users must be approved by the
administrator. A standard feature is a search function, allowing
searches on topics, posts, or members. All postnames are publicly
search-able.

There are provided pages for FAQ, copyright, suggestions, and terms of
use pages. In case a password is forgotten, there is a retrieve
password feature. For consumer-based sites, there is an information
request feature that can be requested per topic. Members may subscribe
to e-mail notification of new posts to a particular topic. For
advertising purposes, there is the ability to include ad panels
(banners). Code for an optional captcha is provided to help in spam
reduction.

The Lfor codebase is provided as an open-source project managed through
GoogleCode. The project location is <http://code.google.com/p/lfor/>.

The project maintainer is Eric Landmann of Iterate LLC <support@iterate.ws>.

===============================================================itPage - Open-Source CMS for Lasso
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Iterate LLC recently announced the immediate availability of version 3
of itPage, an open-source content management system (CMS) for the Lasso
language from LassoSoft. itPage was the subject of a roundtable talk at
the 2009 Lasso Developer Conference, in Amsterdam. itPage has a feature
set suitable for general-purpose commercial websites. Some of the
front-end features include galleries, testimonials, multiple template,
clean URLs, flexible site hierarchy, rotating stories, and portfolios.

Sites powered by itPage have a built-in search feature that searches the
site content without any extra effort or coding needed by the
developer. There is robust image support for many image and filetypes
to be used on the website, including native .swf and automatic
conversion of video to Flash video.

Features developers will appreciate include a user-management system,
clean URLs, jQuery integration including Thickbox, ToolTips and
Galleria. All source code is commented, and documentation can be found
on the wiki <http://www.iterate.ws/wiki/>. Users and developers may
benefit from subscribing to the talk list, managed via Google Groups at
<http://groups.google.com/group/itPageTalk>. The wiki also documents
all custom tags and provides example usages. Several sets of templates
are provided with the codebase. Users will also find screencasts
available for common administrative tasks like creating a gallery or
portfolio on the wiki site.

The back-end features include management of all data types, individual
content page overrides for SEO terms, stylesheets and templates, a
comprehensive image library that allows management of all images and
media in the site, a file library, and system settings/site control.

The itPage codebase is provided as an open-source project managed
through GoogleCode. The project location is
<http://code.google.com/p/itpage/>. The project maintainer is Eric
Landmann of Iterate LLC <support@iterate.ws>.

More comprehensive information about itPage, its features and
implementation can be found on the itPage site at <http://www.itpage.ws/>.

===============================================================Object-Oriented Programming and Lasso 9 Primer
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A new article has recently been added to LassoTech. The introduction to
Lasso 9 brings in some new functionality, as well as an increased
exposure to object-oriented programming (OOP).

Lasso in an object-oriented language, however before version 9, it was
generally received as a language that could perform either procedurally,
or had the tools to get into OOP. This article is meant to clarify how
OOP works, how Lasso developers have been using OOP techniques without
knowing them, and clarify some of the terminology.

<http://www.lassotech.com/Lasso%20Object%20Oriented%20Programming%20Primer>

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