Sean Monahan

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 [...]

Previously I discussed the process of implementing a custom chrome in Adobe AIR, with this post I’ll delve into how I created the assets I used in Beer Near Here Desktop. In particular I’ll discuss how I acquired all the beer glass images necessary to create the loading animation for Beer Near Here Desktop.

As anyone who’s spent some time writing software knows: planning is paramount.  Mapping out all the features of an app and how they fit together just makes life so much easier.  Since Beer Near Here is a personal project I also factored in my own goals that don’t necessarily have anything to do with how [...]

One of the coolest aspects of Beer Near Here, in my humble opinion, is the desktop version.  Beer Near Here is primarily a website about information, specifically, displaying information in a legible manner.  That sort of site doesn’t mesh well with a cool, out-there design or lots of Flash or Javascript effects, which is why [...]