Thursday, 16. October 2008, 19:06:38
tour, web, tech, browser
...
Opera University Tour at Cal Poly
Thursday, October 30th (day before Halloween)
11:00-12:00
PAC Bldg 6 Room 124
Be there! Free snacks and swag to attendees.
Topics covered will include the future of the web, mobile browsing, maybe some HTML5 and other cool tech stuff.
Sign up at us-tour@opera.com with Cal Poly in the subject line or visit
opera.com/education for more info.
Official Poster for the EventThis event is hosted by
Cal Poly's
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Monday, 6. October 2008, 17:35:14
meetup, technology, web, tech
...
I'm so excited that Cal Poly's coming to campus through its
worldwide education tour. I'm sure it will be very interesting to hear what Opera has to say about the future of the web. Seeing how much has changed in the past 10 years technology-wise, I think we can expect rapid change in a modest 5-10 years. There will be a completely new computer paradigm. Your cell phone is now more powerful than computers were a decade ago--they have more processing power, memory, and some with superior graphics. I don't think it's a stretch to say that Opera is more aware about the technological future than Microsoft or Mozilla, and that's why I want to hear what they have to say.
If you're a Cal Poly student, save the date! It's October 30th. Check back at
Opera University Tours for the location and time of the event. If you are one of the lucky students to have Opera visiting your campus, I hope you find time to go. Opera wants you to see their vision of the technological future. Psst, there's
free swag.
See the updated post with time and location:
Opera Opera Opera! Tech talk at Cal Poly!
Wednesday, 19. March 2008, 01:11:42
widgets, mail, goodie bag, store
...
I received my
goodie bag in the mail from Opera yesterday from
Espen.
My submission was
Trimet Transit Tracker, which is the first widget I have ever done. Thanks for the encouragement, Opera. It is definately beta quality, still strongly resembles the
Hello World example. Nonetheless, I hope to teach myself a little Javascript so I can extract just the content I need from a web script. Really, all the credit goes to
Trimet for making their
Transit Tracker program. I simply iframe'd it, figureing it'd make it one step easier to look up departure and arrival times. For all you people living in New York, London, and Japan, I am really jealous that you have 24/7 transit and don't have to worry about missing a bus or train. The closest stop to my house comes at best every 45, and on Sundays every 90 minutes.
Ultimately, this widget will be really useful for quickly knowing what time to catch the bus in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Enough about what I did. Here's what was in the goodie bag:
- 2 red Opera pens
- Black Opera + Widgets t-shirt (similar design to the koozies at SXSW)
- browse me shirt (from the Rock Opera party back in October)
- Opera lanyard
- Hand signed note from Espen (these notes really mean a lot to me because it lets me know that cool humans work at Opera, and that the magic of Opera isn't just done by robots or monkeys)
Opera, You-Guys-Are-Amazing!
Wednesday, 21. September 2005, 02:39:10
free, opera
In case any of you out there enjoy being ostriches that stick their heads in the sand, Opera's removed the ads from their Desktop browser. This is only the first step in an even better Opera as we know it. With additional revenue coming from a revised contract with Google, Opera will have more time and resources to listen to the community and build the ultimate web experience.
This is almost as exciting as Opera's 10th birthday! Thanks!
(We're all lookin' forward to Merlin)
WIDGETIZE