Sean Monahan

Then here’s the fix.

I’ve been using Flash Builder 4 (the plugin with Eclipse Galileo) on Mac OS 10.5 for awhile now and everything has gone smoothly. Yesterday I upgraded to Mac OS 10.6 and this was not a smooth as I would have liked. First I noticed that Eclipse is super slow now, then my breakpoints wouldn’t appear [...]

Stripper is a simple utility for quickly gathering a bunch of images into a precise tile strip for Flixel-base games. Currently an alpha, you can watch a demo of Stripper here and read more + follow progress here.

I recently added a page to this site for Defuse World Editor, a 2D tile-based editor for games. Presently the editor is closely tied to Defuse, a 2D action-puzzle-platformer I’m finishing up for release this summer, but I plan to cut that cord and make it a much more reusable and general purpose level editor.

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 x64 from Windows Vista x64 and I must say I’m loving it! However, much like Vista x64 before it Win7 x64 doesn’t play nice with Flex Builder. I still have issues with blank dialogs (for which I found a work around) but now I have an issue with adding [...]

Here’s a link to a post I did over at the BKWLD blog about making AIR apps more seamless on Mac OS.

I recently wrote a post over on the Buk Life blog about creating native menus with Adobe AIR in Mac OS. The emphasis of the article is making the “application name” menu (e.g., “Safari” for the Safari browser) look like it belongs when creating customized application menus. You can read the full article here: Creating [...]

I’ve had to reset the font size in Flex Builder a few times now and each time I forget, not because it’d been so long since I’d last changed the font size, but because the setting is buried away, hidden from view. To change the font size in Flex Builder click Window > Preferences…. In [...]

One of the downsides to creating Rich Internet Applicationss is that they defy the standard methods for interacting with websites — the refresh, back and forward buttons have no real place in an Flex application.  As a developer you probably understand that clicking refresh or back is a no-no but you users aren’t likely to [...]

When I first got my MacBook Pro one of the first things I did was…type my password incorrectly. When this happens Mac OS provides some great visual feeback with a shaking effect that simultaneously indicates something went wrong and shrugs off the password much like how dogs dry themselves off after a swim.  To me, [...]