Valletta Ventures - an Overview

We're Valletta Ventures, a software development company specialising in Editors and IDEs. Here's an overview of what we do.

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1. January 2012 Valletta Ventures The OS X IDE Company Write Develop Publish Tuesday, 24 January 2012
2. The Itch... Xcode or Nothing If Xcode doesn’t cater for your development needs, you’re likely to be stuck with some Java bloatware. Problem with Eclipse/Java-based IDEs Boot slowly. Respond sluggishly. Out of place in OS X. Tuesday, 24 January 2012
3. The Scratch... Native tools for developers not served by Xcode. The result... ➹ minimal boot-up time ➹ responsive apps - enhanced productivity ➹ UI meets expectations of Mac users Tuesday, 24 January 2012
4. Texpad ➹ Market: engineering/science institutions and technical writers ➹ Easy navigation of the largest of documents ➹ Hunting logs for errors a thing of the past ➹ In-built PDF viewer, with synching to the LaTeX source The smoothest way to write LaTeX on OS X Tuesday, 24 January 2012
5. RailSide ➹ Market: commercial web developers ➹ An end-to-end development tool ➹ Integrate web preview ➹ Integrate console ➹ Debugger coming soon OS X’s first native Ruby on Rails IDE Tuesday, 24 January 2012
6. Webbed ➹ Market: web developers of all sizes ➹ Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, XML, and so on ➹ Integrated web preview ➹ PHP, HTML syntax checker ➹ JavaScript syntax checker coming soon Tuesday, 24 January 2012
7. How have we done so far... Sold over 1500 unit (unit = normalised £10 app unit) ! ➹ No external funding or bank loans ! ➹ Sales supporting future development Mature products with common code base ! ➹ adding features improves all products simultaneously and cheaply Issue tracking systems for fixing bugs and implementing feature requests Tuesday, 24 January 2012
8. What’s to come... Continuously adding more new features The next phase: site licensing ! ➹ Universities and scientific publishers for Texpad ! ➹ Software houses for RailSide and Webbed Future products: ! ➹ World’s first git-enabled scientific writing and collaboration tool ! ➹ IDEs for leading languages missing from Xcode (details on request) Tuesday, 24 January 2012
9. Find out more... Texpad! http://itunes.apple.com/app/texpad-latex-editor/id458866234 RailSide! http://itunes.apple.com/app/railside-rails-ide/id468367116 Webbed! http://itunes.apple.com/app/webbed/id475310312 Duncan P. Steele & Jawad A. Deo vallettaventures@gmail.com twitter: vallettaventure vallettaventures.com Tuesday, 24 January 2012