What's New?
Information on the newest Lasso releases, updates on Lasso Community events, the latest on general industry happenings...you'll find it all here!
- January 23 2012
Lasso Conference Toronto 2012
Rachel Guthrie
Toronto is hosting the 2012 Lasso Developer Conference (LDC) from May 25 to May 27. The venue is the OneKingWest Hotel perfectly located in the heart of downtown Toronto, and ideally suited to hosting the many Lasso users from around the world who converge to hear the latest in all things Lasso. Also offered this year are pre-conference training sessions to maximize the benefit for newer users of Lasso. LassoSoft is proud to partner with Treefrog Interactive Inc in bringing the LDC Conference to Toronto. - October 28 2011
Lasso 9.1.4 Released, and Lasso for Windows is underway!
Rachel Guthrie
Lasso Server 9.1.4 was released on October 27, 2011 and sees an important change in the introduction of a custom replacement of the FastCGI module for Apache. The new module is called mod_lasso9. LassoSoft's R&D team developed mod_lasso9 to solve an inherent limitation found in communication between Apache and mod_fastcgi. The Lasso 9.1.4 update delivers a number of other improvements, and more compatibility improvements. - October 17 2011
New Lasso Training Courses Offered
Rachel Guthrie
Lasso's syntax is legendary for being easy to learn - now it's even quicker and easier to broaden your skills with LassoSoft's new range of beginner to advanced Lasso training sessions. Courses are available as 1:1 or small groups, or, you can take up the Code Coach offer for personalized coding advice. - September 23 2011
Summer 2011 Sale News from LassoSoft
Rachel Guthrie
Starting Sept 22 each day until October 1st there is a super-saving offer made available to Lasso users who are connected via Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and LassoSoft's own LassoTalk list. The End of Summer promotions are seeing discounts as high as 50% off some types of licenses. These deals are only promoted to people who are following LassoSoft and each deal only lasts for 24hours. - September 08 2011
Lasso 9.1.3 Released
Rachel Guthrie
Released today is the third update to the Lasso 9.1 product that demonstrates LassoSofts committment to continuous improvement and which keeps the Lasso 9 current with latest Operating Systems. New in this version is full support for OSX 10.7 (Lion), as well as the addition of cache related methods. - August 28 2011
LassoSoft Announces Continuity Assurance
Rachel Guthrie
LassoSoft announced today a new benefit for Certified Lasso Developer's (CLD's) and their projects. Called "Continuity Assurance", this service is aimed at the heart of a key concern of small programming shops and their clients: what happens if the programmer is 'hit by a bus'? Sean Stephens, LassoSoft's CEO described the offering "In the event of a personal tragedy, LassoSoft will make sure there is a suitably qualified Lasso Developer able to pick up and support your mission critical systems while the end user of your code resolves a longer term developer engagement." - July 13 2011
Lasso 9.1 is here!
Rachel Guthrie
Continuing with the direction of bringing more to the Lasso community LassoSoft Inc. announced today the release of the latest upgrade for the flagship Lasso 9 product line. This release includes the long-awaited Lasso Instance Manager, with a completely new interface for managing any instances of Lasso 9 used in development and production. There are the large number of improvements rolled into this release that have been brought through since December 2010 when LassoSoft Inc was formed, as well as defect fixes and documentation strengthening. - June 23 2011
New Cancom UK Website Speed and Performance Powered by Lasso 9
Andrea Gust
The new Cancom UK e-commerce site experiences rates of requests of over 500 per second, and Lasso 9 is proving to handle this without breaking a sweat. One of the primary goals of moving to Lasso 9 was to provide a highly responsive site for the end user. The developer, the client, and the end user have seen the benefits of this improved performance immediately following the update, and there are some impressive findings to be seen. - June 18 2011
Lasso 9.1 now in Beta
Rachel Guthrie
LassoSoft announced June 18 that Lasso 9.1 with Server Instance Manager is now in Beta testing. Drawing on the skills of the Certified Lasso Developers and subscribed members of the Lasso community, final testing of this new enhanced version of Lasso 9 has begun. - June 09 2011
LassoSoft To Attend FileMaker DevCon 2011
Rachel Guthrie
LassoSoft announced today that Team Rhino will make the trek from Toronto to San Diego to attend FileMakers "Go Farther" DevCon. Lasso and Filemaker have had a long history together and Lasso's continued strong performance in security and Unicode make it an ideal partner of current web systems for FileMaker data. - May 05 2011
Lasso Professional 8.6.0.1 Installers for Windows Released
Rachel Guthrie
The team at LassoSoft put the Windows installers for Lasso Professional 8.6.0.1 on the shelf of the online store today. The Windows release includes 64-bit connectors and IIS7 configurations. The Lasso Professional 8.6 version is now available for all major platforms. - May 04 2011
LassoSoft bronze level partner with MacTech
Rachel Guthrie
LassoSoft becomes a bronze level sponsorship of MacTech BootCamps. While Lasso is not exclusive to Mac, a large number of Lasso users have a long affinity with all things Mac. MacTechs BootCamps are one day events for consultants and techs packed full of troubleshooting, security, networking tips - all useful to those managing mac systems and servers. - April 20 2011
Lasso Professional 8.6 Final released
Andrea Gust
You asked, we listened! By popular demand, we are pleased to announce the full release of Lasso 8.6, fine tuned with the help of your feedback. - March 17 2011
LassoSoft Inc New Website Launched
LassoSoft Inc. launched a new website March 17, 2011, offering the latest product versions of its web programming language, Lasso 8.6 and Lasso 9. It also united the various websites previously supported by the company, fusing its marketing message, developer support documentation, and client communication channels into a single source. - March 16 2011
Lasso8.6b2 Release Features and Fixes
Lasso 8.6 is a community requested release primarily to address critical issues with 8.5 and to support newer OS versions and 64bit. Some enhancements were also added. See this article for the full list of features as at the b2 release version. - January 17 2011
Lasso Professional Server 8.6 Beta, and the new Public Bug Tracking website
Kerry Adams
We've been hard at work, with our noses to the grindstone, to bring you some exciting new developments. We're pleased to announce to you that today we are releasing Lasso Professional 8.6b. - December 03 2010
Treefrog Interactive Inc Buddies Up With Lassosoft
Sean Stephens
LassoSoft Inc. to build a home base with Treefrog Interactive Inc. Treefrog™ is a longtime supporter and user of the Lasso software product line, and now LassoSoft are being incorporated into their Canadian operations.
