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 |
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 May 5, 2008
The code is AS3 and the tutorial assumes some general knowledge of flash and actionscript 1 and 2.
Posted in Flash | Tagged actionscript, code, download, flash, free, tutorial |
By Armand Niculescu on July 25, 2006
I needed to create a very simple Pie chart in Flash – one that had to work standalone (just a swf rendering data from an XML source) and it had to be very small.
Posted in Flash | Tagged actionscript, component, download, flash, free, piechart |
By Armand Niculescu on March 7, 2006
I had this idea on the back of my mind for a while now; the idea of making a photo gallery that’s both efficient and good-looking, one that supports a large number of images sorted in categories, easy to navigate either randomly or in sequence. Finally, I have a working version and I’d really like [...]
Posted in Flash, News | Tagged actionscript, flash, free, gallery |
By Armand Niculescu on November 28, 2005
At only 12Kb (6Kb without some background art), the player can be embedded in a web site even without any Actionscript knowledge, just by sending several parameters. Advanced users can use it in their applications, or extend it as they see fit. Since it’s free for commercial purposes, it can be modified and extended in any way.
Posted in Flash | Tagged actionscript, download, flash, flv, free, source
