What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

[Peter TB Brett]

Hi all,

What exciting LiveCode project(s) are you working on at the moment? 
Where can we find out more about them?  Have you run into any 
interesting problems (or solutions) that you'd like to share?

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In the office, I'm currently trying to figure out what tools I can build 
to help with core dev team productivity.  For example, I'm planning to 
create a tool that keeps our Bugzilla site 
(http://quality.livecode.com/) synchronised with what's going on in our 
git repositories (https://github.com/livecode/)

In my spare time:

- I've been adding some stuff to my somewhat-insane open source 
"undergrowth" library of pure-LCB bits and pieces 
(https://github.com/peter-b/undergrowth), including a templated string 
formatting function:

     u_format("There are {} lights", [5])   --> "There are 5 lights"

- I've now written a reasonably usable Emacs mode for LCB source code 
(https://github.com/peter-b/lcb-mode), with syntax highlighting and 
indentation support.  It turns out LCB code (and LiveCode script) is 
actually very difficult to highlight well without compiler support 
because of LiveCode's English-like syntax, but lcb-mode does the job 
adequately for the time being

- I've got the idea of making it possible to write externals in Rust 
going round (and round) inside my head but I haven't yet got round to 
getting it working.

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What are you up to?

                                      Peter

-- 
Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
LiveCode Technical Project Manager

lcb-mode for Emacs: https://github.com/peter-b/lcb-mode