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Come join us at the Lasso Developer Conference in Chicago this September 18 - 21, 2008. The conference is scheduled to feature talks by luminaries from the Lasso community, guest presentations by technology partners, and a keynote and special presentation by LassoSoft. The Lasso Developer Conference is the premiere event for the Lasso community. This is your chance to meet other Lasso developers, learn about new Lasso techniques, and enjoy a few days in the windy city.

LassoSoft is pleased to announce the release of Lasso Professional 8.5.5. This release includes Mac OS X 10.5 compatibility as well as minor fixes, updates, and documentation updates.

SubEthaEdit is a powerful and lean text editor for Mac OS X. It also includes collaboration features which make it possible for several members of a workgroup to edit one document at the same time. New version 3.0 includes built-in support for Lasso syntax coloring. See the Community Resources page for a list of Lasso-compatible editors.

LassoSoft is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Lasso Professional 8.5.4 and Lasso Developer 8.5.4.
Lasso Professional 8.5.4 is a free update to Lasso Professional 8.5 which is recommended for all users. This update includes a significant performance increase, an update to the Lasso Connector for FileMaker Server which improves compatibility with FileMaker Server 9, and SOAP enhancements. Consult the Lasso 8.5 Setup Guide and Lasso 8.5 Language Guide for information about the new features in this version.

Join the Lasso Professional Alliance (LPA) to find out about the future of Lasso, interact with other members and LassoSoft engineers, get a great deal on Lasso licenses and product discounts, participate in technology previews and beta tests, and more.

Lasso Studio 8.5 for Dreamweaver Now Available - Lasso Studio 8.5 for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 and Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is now available. See the following link for more information, release notes, and download links.
Lasso Studio 8.5.3 for Dreamweaver

Lasso Studio 1.5.2 for Eclipse Now Available - This is a free update to Lasso Studio which supports the Lasso Professional 8.5 release, includes Universal binary support on Mac OS X, and has several minor fixes. See the following link for more information, release notes, and download links.
Lasso Studio 1.5.2 for Eclipse

Lasso Studio 8.5 for GoLive Now Available - Lasso Studio 8.5 for Adobe GoLive 9 and CS3 is now available. See the following link for more information, release notes, and download links.

The second Lasso Programming Challenge is now closed and winners are Bil Corry and Johan Sölve. Thank you to everyone who submitted an answer. The Regular Expression Challenge ended August 15, 2007. Participants were challenged to solve eight useful problems using the regular expression tags within Lasso including formatting phone numbers, stripping white space, auto-linking URLs and email addresses, simple wiki-inspired formatting, and more.
LassoSoft is pleased to announce official support for FileMaker Server 9 through Lasso Professional 8.5. Lasso can now connect directly to FileMaker Server 9 and does not require FileMaker Server Advanced. Download the Quick Start guide for complete instructions on installing and configuring FileMaker Server 9 and Lasso Professional 8.5.
LassoSoft, LLC is pleased to announce its acquisition of the Lasso product line from OmniPilot Software. LassoSoft is a partnership of Kyle Jessup, Fletcher Sandbeck, and Kerry Adams. Collectively, they have over twenty years experience working on Lasso. Follow this link for more information about this acquisition and what it means for the Lasso community.

The Lasso Summit was held this March 2-4 at the Riverside Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The summit featured a keynote by Kyle Jessup, Fletcher Sandbeck, and Kerry Adams of LassoSoft. Featured speakers included Jonathon Guthrie, Jason Huck, Eric Landmann, and Jolle Carlestam. In addition, attendees were able to attend a crash course in the basics of lasso with Miles.
We want to thank all the people who made the Lasso Summit a reality. Thank you to everyone who attended the event. Some attendees travelled from as far away as New Zealand. A special thank you goes to Jim Van Heule and Tom Wiebe for organizing the event. In addition, we want to thank the following sponsors for their dedication to the Lasso community:
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Find out how the Lasso 8.5 product line can make it easy for you to create and deploy your interactive, data-driven Web site.
LassoSoft has a range of support option to help you get started using Lasso and for any issues which you encounter programming your interactive Web site.
Lasso includes comprehensive documentation to help get you started programming your data driven Web site and to enable you to master the many features of Lasso. Lasso includes 1400 pages of documentation in PDF format including Getting Started, the Setup Guide, and the comprehensive Language Guide. In addition, Lasso includes an online Lasso Reference databases with documentation of over 1600 tags (functions) in Lasso.
Over the last ten years, Lasso has developed a strong community of skilled developers, hosting providers, and enthusiasts. These pages show how you can participate in the Lasso community and highlight the great resources which are available through the community.
You can find all of the latest installers for Lasso here as well as installers for practically every version of Lasso going back ten years.
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