Many of us who've been using LiveCode for more than a few years have become fond of the use-livecode email list as our central wateringhole.

Email works well for some, and I've enjoyed not only the convenience of having the discussions brought to my In Box, but also the nature of the audience there, which tends to have a larger percentange of folks who've been using LiveCode for several years.

But it seems that the LiveCode Web Forums are where the incedible growth since the launch of the Community Edition is most evident.

Almost every day I see a few new names I've never seen before. Apparently the forums are the venue of choice for those getting started.

But it's not all newcomers: the Forums include sections for IDE and Engine Contributors, where ideas for new directions are explored.

And there's also a section dedicated to LiveCode User Groups, where you can post notices of upcoming meetings in your area.

The Forums are hoppin' - see ya' there.

- Richard Gaskin
editor, LiveCode Journal

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With the Kickstarter campaign for the open source Community Edition of LiveCode having more than met it's goals, the team at RunRev has been hard at work on new features for the LiveCode engine.

This Roadmap outlines three main branches, or "strands", of work in which all three are being worked on my RunRev's expanded team of engineers.

Within each of these three strands is a list of tasks being worked on, roughly in sequential order.

The July 26 newsletter from RunRev outlines progress in key areas of the Roadmap, most notably resolution independence, critical to mobile work.

The August 23 newsletter offers a report on Unicode enhancements for LiveCode. While the scope of the task is daunting given the size of the code base, it looks like the team is making good progress toward completing the last major initiative fo Unicode support: Unicode-aware variables.

There are many other interesting and important items on the Roadmap, well worth reviewing to plan feature rollouts for your own LiveCode-based apps.