During the last few weeks I've written two applications - have fun!

NiceDemo - Introduction

This application provides an easy way to include media (e.g. videos, images, text and interactive components) in your project demonstration or your talk. In addition it subjoins some kind of eye candy which is mostly not the main focus of attention - but can be the cherry on the top.

NiceDemo was implemented for several reasons - foremost because of the CeBIT 2009 where the "Curious Robot Scenario" was presented to the public.

NiceDemo - TechSpecs

NiceDemo has been implemented in Flex and JavaScript (with Flashvideo).

"Adobe Flex is a collection of technologies released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform. The initial release in March 2004 by Macromedia included a software development kit, an development environment IDE (Eclipse), and a J2EE integration application known as Flex Data Services." [1]

Flex MXML is an XML-based markup language which can be interpreted with a free SDK (Linux (Beta), MacOSX and Windows). Just because you need the SDK to deploy an application NiceDemo also has been implemented in HTML plus JavaScript and CSS which are common techniques and which are well known.  

Hmm...PHP / FLASH / AJAX ... there are a lot of website-tools which provide random image functions. If you ask google you'll get tons of more or less correctly written JavaScript code.

The problem is: Those functions just load ONE image at a time. What if you want a random set of tiled images? The answer is code it yourself. Approximately 15 lines of JavaScript.

Here's the result. Only images sets will be randomly loaded.

Here's the code: