Topic: Development

There is a variety of splendid Flash charts available for free at amCharts. Unfortunately, they're designed for embedding in HTML pages and don't work so well in Flex.

There are some great resources out there that make it a pleasure to work on Tomcat projects using the Eclipse IDE. This tutorial is one of them.

A quick trick for determining the URL of the page in which your Flash movie is embedded. This could be useful for keeping track of the state of a web application but it does rely on Javascript being enabled.

How to discourage third parties from using your XML-driven Flash apps for other purposes.

The OpenNLP parser will often return multiple possible trees for a sentence. Here's why.

I found a great set of tools for natural language processing. The Java package includes a sentence detector, a tokenizer, a parts-of-speech (POS) tagger, and a treebank parser. It took me a little while to figure out where to start so I thought I'd post my findings here. I'm no linguist and I don't have previous experience with NLP, but hopefully this will help some one get setup with OpenNLP.

I discovered that my Movie Constellation sample app wasn't working in Internet Explorer. The movie would appear but the external XML file wasn't being loaded. The movie is embedded using a Javascript Eolas fix and since the SWF is stored elsewhere on the server, I used the "embed" and "object" tags' "base" attribute to make sure external assets would still work. Unfortunately, IE wasn't reading the base attribute properly.

A couple weeks ago I realized I wasn't sketching as much as I used to and decided to do something about it. I decided to build myself a "moblog," a blog which you update by sending text messages from your cell phone.

A quick look at Natural Docs and AS2API, two contenders for creating API documentation for ActionScript.

Get this free Flash component and improve the experience of viewing large images and maps in your web application.