As the head of webspam at Google, Matt Cutts is a pretty powerful figure in the SEO world. So when he tweets, people listen. Last week, he confirmed via Twitter that Penguin–Google’s search algorithm update designed to punish spammy sites–was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Spotlight, Tech Talk | Leave a commentIs the world eschewing Windows in favor of Linux? It’s starting to look that way–we were pumped to read that astronauts on the International Space Station will be making the switch to laptops running Linux rather than Windows. Linux has an … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Spotlight, Tech Talk | Leave a commentHow many times have you heard students grumble, “I’m never gonna use this stuff in real life”? Project-based learning, or PBL, is a great alternative to rote or lecture-based learning because it’s dynamic, challenging, collaborative, and outcome-focused. In short, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Tech Talk, Thought Leadership | Leave a commentGetting press coverage is one of the most exhilarating—and difficult—tasks on an entrepreneur’s plate. So how do you get a journalist interested in your story? The tl; dr version: 1) Give them what they want (a juicy story) 2) Make … Continue reading
Posted in Community Highlights, Tech Talk | Leave a commentSimple web applications can be built quickly, and the original source code sent to users’ browsers for use. While this allows for rapid prototyping and quick turnaround, it’s not a workable model in the long run for a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Tech Talk | 5 CommentsToday’s post is an interview with our VP of Engineering, Brian Pugh. As Lucidchart transitions away from PHP, we thought it might benefit the development community to have one of our in-house experts make the case for Scala as the … Continue reading
Posted in Behind the Scenes, Tech Talk | Tagged scala | 5 CommentsAt Lucidchart, we really care about making a great application that is easy to use and intuitive for first time users, yet powerful enough for the sophisticated diagrams and mockups that many people need to create. That means that we … Continue reading
Posted in Tech Talk, Thought Leadership | 17 CommentsGoogle fanboys and girls, take note: Google just announced a new $249 Chromebook manufactured by Samsung, which will be available for purchase beginning next week. Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president for Chrome and Apps, said that they planned to … Continue reading
Posted in Tech Talk | Leave a commentIt’s now been a little over two months since we included Lucidchart in Google’s Chrome Web Store. With the recent release of a new stable build of Chrome that includes the Chrome Web Store, over 120 million users are now … Continue reading
Posted in Lucid News, Tech Talk, Thought Leadership | 1 CommentThe revolution will not be televised In the early 90s, command line systems almost fully gave way to what we know as graphical user interfaces (GUIs). This transition opened computing up to a whole new range of users. It made … Continue reading
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