CREOFF blog

We're getting hungry for more

2017-03-24T09:47:36Z

We started working on a new software product for hungry employees. Have a look at our preliminary product page: www.lunchpad.io

We saw the light in 2016

2016-12-30T09:15:14Z

2016 we entered the hardware world: CREOFF joined the developer team of smart lighting startup TriLED.

TriLED is a Belgian startup located on the Corda Campus in Hasselt that offers manufacturers, retailers and other businesses a smarter way of lighting their production halls.

TriLED offers a “smart” lighting solution that has lights connected to the web and stuffed with useful sensors that detect motion etc.

CREOFF helped to create the web application that lets users organise and layout the light groups on a map of their buildings. For this the then brand new Angular 2 (beta.0 version!) was used to build the application with D3 for the maps and display of buildings.

Read more about TriLED on their website: www.triled.be

Trendy 2015: visualizing big data

2016-06-04T09:57:09Z

Most of 2015 CreOFF joined the D Square team working towards the first production release of their TrendMiner application

TrendMiner: Searching big data

CreOFF joined the existing developer team and added some UI features and tweaks to the UI router states (some would say “hacking” the router - wink wink)

But who’s better to explain the application than the real experts at Trendminer? Here’s a video giving a brief overview of some of the main features:

For more info I’d suggest visiting the official TrendMiner site: www.trendminer.com

2014 was all about money

2015-01-31T11:38:00Z

In 2014 CREOFF participated in two financial software projects, which meant investing heavily in testing and reliability of the software. Technology wise it was the year of AngularJS and lots of Karma, with some Coffee(script) to stay focused.

Successierekenaar (Wolters Kluwers Software)

The original ‘Successierekenaar’ has been a successful software package for succession planning. CreOFF played a development role in converting this highly acclaimed existing desktop software package into an online web application. Technology wise this meant a HTML5 website using AngularJS and lots (lots!) of tests to avoid regression errors while porting the formulae to the new software.

Wolter Kluwer Successierekenaar (Dutch)

KBC Touch

KBC updated it’s existing personal banking site to a brand new cutting-edge tablet enabled HTML5 experience. This was a huge project where CREOFF contributed to the loan application flows inside the application.

KBC Touch

Website rewritten in Go

2014-12-01T22:26:53Z

The CREOFF site has been around since March 2011 and an update was long overdue. Google’s Go language was one of the technologies on CreOFF’s watch list and that’s why the complete site has been rewritten from scratch in Go.

^{Gopher image courtesy of James Gray}

Dot.Go Eu 2014

After a visit to the first European Go conference in Paris this October and meeting some Google Go team members it became clear that CreOFF should be using Go in one of the next internal projects. A rewrite of the CreOFF site was the perfect excuse to take the new language for a test drive.

The new tech stack

The site is running on Google’s App Engine cloud environment and was written in Go using the Martini framework.

Some minimal optimization like adding memcache etc was done before putting the site live to avoid using too many App Engine resources, but there’s always room for improvement.

You think the site looks identical to the 2011 version? You’re absolutely right: the front end is still exactly the same because only the back end technology was changed for now.

It’s a work in progress and more features will be added in the future.