08 feb 2011

Google I/O tickets sell out in 59 minutes

The 2011 Google I/O edition in San Francisco looks interesting, but apparently you had to register VERY quickly: Google I/O tickets sell out in 59 minutes...

Apparently the registration site had huge problems keeping up with the sudden burst of visits: what happened? Did the registration site run on an IIS with ColdFusion instead of running on Google ...

23 apr 2009

Cobol beats Actionscript

Well, that's what it says today in the list of most popular programming languages.

See for yourself:

Actionscript versus Cobol

Although I have the utmost respect for my fellow COBOL programmers, being an Actionscript programmer myself it's obvious I would prefer to see the Actionscript language rise from it's current 22nd position.

Hmm... what can I do? maybe I should ...

04 feb 2009

CreOFF's playground: labs.creoff.com

CreOFF labsCreOFF has been experimenting with different technologies and ideas since day one. But uptill now links to those ideas were scattered around the web (or this blog)

That's why now there's a special space dedicated to (some of) the ideas that might become true apps: labs.creoff.com

From time to time extra ideas will be added, so ...

08 jan 2009

Yahoo widgets on a TV near you

Thought Yahoo widgets looked nice on your pc only? Think again! Soon you'll be able to run widgets on the next generation of TV screens.

TV widgets

Yahoo has made agreements with leading TV manufacturers like Samsung, Sony and LG to use their widget system on the television screens. New chips inside the TVs will carry extra software that will be ...

02 aug 2008

Thanks Adobe!

I want to thank Adobe for their gift. What gift? Adobe offered a FREE Thawte developer security certificate to the first 135 or so developers that contributed to their AIR marketplace. And yes, CreOFF is one of the lucky ones.

Why is this of importance to you? Well, if you have ever installed some AdobeĀ® AIR applications on your pc ...

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