Behind the Scenes

Selenium: 7 Things You Need To Know

July 21, 2015 Jared Yarn 7 Comments

Image source: xkcd Selenium can be one of the most powerful tools in the QA Engineers’ arsenal. Unfortunately, it can be time consuming to write, a nightmare to maintain, and it can produce way too many false negatives. At Lucid Software, that is where our suite was in the middle…

Big content in a little canvas

May 19, 2015 ben 0 Comments

Performant canvas rendering for modern browsers Lucidchart is one of the most complex graphical apps on the web, which means good performance is an absolute must. Getting that performance out of each of our supported browsers has always been a challenge, and we’ve found the best ways to meet that…

Building Lucidchart’s iPad App with Swift

March 3, 2015 Parker Wightman 2 Comments

In August 2014, Lucid Software brought on a dedicated engineering team — including yours truly — to improve our users’ mobile app experience. After deciding to re-write the existing Lucidchart app natively (previously a Titanium app), my team members and I decided to use Swift instead of Objective-C. A complete…

The Definitive Guide to Copying and Pasting in JavaScript

December 2, 2014 Richard Shurtz 24 Comments

At Lucid Software, we strive to build desktop quality software that runs in the browser. Until recently, however, we had settled for using our own internal clipboard implementation rather than the system clipboard — limiting copying and pasting with external applications to just plain text. With customers clamoring for the…

Testing our homepage with KissMetrics

November 20, 2014 Brian Pugh 1 Comment

We recently used KissMetrics to measure the performance of our upcoming homepage test, which I wrote about on the KissMetrics blog. In that post, I mentioned my method of working backwards from your desired results to determine which reports to run. Once you know the latter, you can work out…

Research-Driven Redesign

October 7, 2014 Matt Swensen 1 Comment

April 2014 was a time of transition for our rapidly growing team here at Lucid Software. Having just received a round of funding, the office was abuzz with excitement at the prospective growth and change. As part of this transitory phase, we recognized that our homepage was dated and in…

Play! 2.3 Template Improvements

August 5, 2014 matthew 0 Comments

My thanks go out to Grant Klopper from The Guardian. Last week, he validated a change I made to the Play! Framework back in December. After upgrading from Play! 2.2 to 2.3, Grant noticed dramatic changes in response times and memory – both for the better. The changes were so awesome that Grant…

Using the @repeat helper in Play!

March 3, 2014 Brian Pugh 1 Comment

Piezo is a system to operate and manage a Quartz Scheduler cluster. It is made up of the Worker and the Admin. One of the main features needed before an official public release of Piezo was the ability to add, edit, and delete jobs from the admin interface. The bulk…

We are hiring a DevOps engineer

March 26, 2013 Brian Pugh 0 Comments

At Lucidchart, we build killer graphical web applications that push the boundaries of what’s possible in the browser. Lucidchart runs with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, PHP, MongoDB and MySQL. At Lucidchart, your responsibilities would include working with engineering to create and operate highly available, secure,…