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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
By Armand Niculescu on April 13, 2009
If you need to make collapsible panels that remember their state, but don’t want to use any javascript framework, this tutorial will help you do this with no headaches – and you’ll learn some neat javascript tricks too!
Posted in CSS/Ajax | Tagged ajax, animation, code, css, download, javascript, tutorial
By Armand Niculescu on March 30, 2009
I find it very annoying when I come across web apps that still can’t handle non-ASCII characters correctly. In this article, I’ll show you how, with just a few lines of code, you can “globalize” your online app.
Posted in PHP/MySQL | Tagged mysql, php, tutorial, utf-8
By Armand Niculescu on March 24, 2009
Flash Developers get a new shiny and powerful tool for their toolbox: static analysis (and a free decompiler) from HP.
Posted in Flash, News, Reviews | Tagged actionscript, flash, free, static analysis, tool, vulnerabilities
By Armand Niculescu on November 27, 2008
Working on a CPU-intensive app in flash is a challenging experience. It can be wonderful or frustrating, depending on your mindset. Based on my experience with flashCHESS and other intensive applications, I’ll give some tips and ideas on how to get the most out of your flash project.
Posted in Flash | Tagged actionscript, chess, flash, performance, tutorial