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Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Even better, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel.

A Java-based toolkit for building interactive information visualization applications.

If you've ever had to produce a sitemap for a client using tools like Visio or OmniGraffle, you know that it can be tedious to visual organize a complex hierarchy of pages. Having experienced this myself, I developed a simple and efficient way to make a sitemap through the benefits of standards-based HTML and CSS.

Our algorithm has the peculiar property that, roughly speaking, the longer the pattern is, the faster the algorithm goes. Furthermore, the algorithm is ``sublinear'' in the sense that it generally looks at fewer characters than it passes. The algorithm is described in