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Armand Niculescu

Armand Niculescu

Armand is a 32 year old designer and programmer employed with Media Division. He has 15 years experience with programming, specializing in scripting languages such as Actionscript, Javascript and PHP. He also does design and photography.

Should your CMS be allowed to do that?

Should your CMS be allowed to do that?

By Armand Niculescu on August 6, 2010

I happen to love WordPress. Its features and sheer variety of plugins makes it ideal not just for blogs but for a whole range of sites. Having worked with many CMSes, both opern source and proprietary, I think WP strikes the best balance between features and ease of use. However, recently there has been quite [...]

Posted in News, PHP/MySQL | Tagged open source, wordpress | Leave a response

A Simple Twitter Search Parser with PHP

A Simple Twitter Search Parser with PHP

By Armand Niculescu on May 18, 2010

I was recently asked to aggregate tweets based on their hashtags using PHP (no Ajax), so I decided to turn this into a small tutorial that will hopefully enable you build all sorts of XML parsers in PHP.

Posted in PHP/MySQL | Tagged php, tutorial, twitter | 13 Responses

I love Tagul

I love Tagul

By Armand Niculescu on March 28, 2010

I don’t like tag clouds. Not in the way they’re usually implemented anyway. They are dull and ugly, really nothing more than a list of words of varying sizes. And yet, properly designed, they can be great infographics – beautiful and informative at the same time.

I discovered Wordle a few weeks ago and I found it fun for doing a little literary analysis, or comparing the spin on the news from different news sites (say Fox vs. CNN.) Still, I was unhappy with its lack of flexibility and options – not to mention that’s not a real, interactive tag cloud. Then I heard about Tagul.

Posted in Flash, News | Tagged actionscript, cloud, component, flash, free, java, service, sliverlight, tagging, wordpress | Leave a response

Adobe CS5 just around the corner

Adobe CS5 just around the corner

By Armand Niculescu on March 19, 2010

You may remember that Adobe had promised a public beta of Flash CS5 for December 2009 but they changed their mind, leaving everyone to guess when the new suite will come out and what new features it will have.

After a long wait, hints are being dropped left and right for an imminent release of their next Creative Suite.

Just this morning, John Nack hinted that CS5 will be released within the next 30 days:

Posted in News | Tagged adobe | 1 Response

The (sad) state of web fonts embedding

The (sad) state of web fonts embedding

By Armand Niculescu on January 4, 2010

In case you think embedding fonts in web pages is something new, I made the first font embedding experiments in browsers in 1998. It was working – cross-browser too: Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Navigator 4. See, EOT from Microsoft is quite old (introduced in 1996) and Netscape had their own format, called .pfr, based on the TrueDoc technology developed by Bitstream. So how comes that more than a decade later we still don’t have a fully working way of using custom fonts on the web?

Posted in CSS/Ajax, News | Tagged css, cufon, embedding, flash, fonts, typography | 3 Responses

flashCHESS III in Google Chrome OS

flashCHESS III in Google Chrome OS

By Armand Niculescu on November 20, 2009

A truly humbling moment: Google has selected my flashCHESS III flash chess game to be included with their Chrome OS. Here are some screenshots – apparently the guys at TechRadar like the game as well considering the number of screenshots of the chess app

Posted in Flash, News | Tagged chess, chrome, flash, google | 2 Responses

VirtueMart quick tip: show brand/manufacturer logo in product details

VirtueMart quick tip: show brand/manufacturer logo in product details

By Armand Niculescu on October 21, 2009

VirtueMart supports Manufacturer details but by default it just shows the manufacturer’s name in brackets, with a javascript pop-up window, that looks pretty ugly. Fortunately we can add the logo by using the description field of the Manufacturers details and by hacking one file.

Posted in PHP/MySQL | Tagged php, virtuemart | 23 Responses

Flash exported as native apps on iPhone? Didn’t see that coming

Flash exported as native apps on iPhone? Didn’t see that coming

By Armand Niculescu on October 6, 2009

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.

Posted in Flash, News | Tagged adobe, apple, flash, iphone | 1 Response

Using MySQL to generate daily sales reports with filled gaps

Using MySQL to generate daily sales reports with filled gaps

By Armand Niculescu on August 19, 2009

I was surprised to see that there’s not a great deal of info on the web on how to do a proper daily report – one that doesn’t have any gaps when data is missing. In this post I’ll try to quide you through building such a report using MySQL and PHP for a nice chart.

Posted in PHP/MySQL | Tagged chart, code, mysql, php, tutorial | 14 Responses

Money for Nothing and Flex for Free

Money for Nothing and Flex for Free

By Armand Niculescu on July 17, 2009

if you intend to buy or upgrade Creative Suite Web Premium or Creative Suite Design Premium from Adobe’s North America store, you can receive Flex Builder for free. Read on to learn how.

Posted in News | Tagged adobe, flex | 2 Responses

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