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Posts published in December 2009

Demo Video of AS3 Marking Menus

In my last article “Extremly Efficient Menu Selection: Marking Menus for the Flash Platform” I wrote about a powerful (but surprisingly rarely used) interaction technique called marking menus. A short demo video showing marking menus in a Flex application can now be found on www.markingmenus.org. Release of Flash/Flex components and source hopefully in 2010…

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Extremely Efficient Menu Selection: Marking Menus for the Flash Platform

This is a topic I wanted to write about since a while now: Marking menus and their implementation in ActionScript 3.0 for the Flash Platform. I had the chance of extensively studying this menu technique over the summer and developed a fully working solution for the Flash Platform, i.e. for use in Flash, Flex and […]

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Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

Interesting article about “Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering” on the IEEE website.

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