CreOFF can put your idea in the cloud

Filed under creoff, cloud, appengine

There are several cloud hosting solutions out there, but Google's App Engine is currently CreOFF's favourite by far.

Because it has such great potential for hosting scalable apps and services CreOFF is promoting Google App Engine usage by offering 25% off normal development rates for App Engine projects for a limited time only. (1)

App Engine is a ...

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Easy payments with your NFC enabled phone

Filed under mobile, business

If you thought QR codes were pretty amazing you might be interested in NFC too. With a NFC capable mobile phone you’ll be able to use your phone to pay for parking, bus ticket, drinks, etc just by holding your phone over a compatible device...

What is NFC?

NFC, or Near Field Communication, is a new communication technology that ...

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Privacy in the cloud

Filed under privacy, cloud, business, legal

At a FeWeb+ seminar about legal and privacy issues my cloud related questions didn't get a clear answer, so I decided to do some research on the latest developments in this area. It seems the cloud environment is still something of a “gray zone” and it’s often unclear which laws apply.

The situation now

Being an EU citizen ...

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Preview mobile sites on your pc

Filed under mobile, tips

If you visit the CreOFF site with a recent mobile phone you'll notice the layout looks simpler and lighter. Making it look nice on a mobile phone requires tweaking of the layout and changing the stylesheets.

The Opera Mobile Emulator turns out to be a big help with this. It's a desktop version of the Opera Mobile browser ...

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The Royal Wedding on Google App Engine

Filed under cloud, appengine

Accenture and Reading Room, creators of the Official Royal Wedding site for Prince William and Catherine Middleton, were faced with the challenge to create a website for an event that will draw worldwide attention and have the site scale and handle the huge peak in visitors before, during and after the event.

They chose to build the site on top ...

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