Work has been started on an exciting new project that will use the Mate framework for Flex (for the first time). I can’t disclose too much information about the project at this time, but you will be hearing more in a few months or so.
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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.
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If you’re a Firefox user, then don’t forget to join the official world record “most software downloaded in 24 hours”:
download your copy of the new Firefox 3 browser on it’s official launch on tuesday June 17.
UPDATE 10 July 2008: the record has now been official approved with 8,002,530 downloads in 24 hours. Visit the site for more info and the actual number of downloads since that day (at the time of writing almost 30 million downloads)
Adobe has recently launched Acrobat.com - a collection of some online collaboration services that will allow you to upload files to share with others, convert files to PDF online, Buzzwords for creating and reviewing documents together and Adobe ConnectNow for holding full-fledged online web conferences with up to three people.
CreOFF has become an official member of the Belgian Federation of Web developers.
The much anticipated Adobe AIR technology version 1.0 was introduced February 25th of this year. It’s a promising platform and that’s why the CreOFF VAT calculator was rewritten for the Adobe AIR platform.
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Some people were amazed when they saw the new version of the CreOFF site. And -embarrassing to admit- not all in a positive way. What happened to that nice old Flash site, original yet simple and to the point?
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This evening I had the pleasure of spending precious (over)time on reclaiming my laptop from Microsoft instead of using it for some serious work. Yes, I might have been foolish in trusting Microsoft and leaving automatic updates ON because now I noticed what results this can have.
For those who didn’t experience this Vista update bug (yet): you probably have seen messages like “don’t turn off or unplug your pc. Windows is perfoming updates” when you shut down Windows. Well, this one appears at startup and it keeps restarting with the message “Configuring updates: Stage 3 of 3 - 0% complete. Do not turn off your computer”.
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Good news for CodeIgniter developers: the creators of CodeIgniter EllisLab have written the newest version of their custom CMS on top of the CodeIgniter framework.
This is promising both for the CMS users as well as the CodeIgniter developers: the content editors will be able to find developers for customized functionality more easily, and the developer will get enhancements to the CI framework on a regular basis.
Do you remember the last time someone confronted you with some of your early work? Yesterday during a meeting an old friend pointed out to me that one of the first public sites we ever made was still online. So today just before shutting down my pc I googled for the site and yes, there it was: the 1996 first edition of the Suikerrock rockfestival website!
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