Eric Ahnell

Indie game maker, professional user of Python and C#; programming addict in general.

Ohio Joined on Jul 30, 2019

Education

Bachelor's in Computer & Info Science from Cleveland State University

Work

Business Systems Analyst at Rockwell Automation

dev-glue

Various bits of shared infrastructure for coding.

Python

older-java-games

My older Java games in one giant collection.

Java

personal-eclipse-ide-settings

Settings for the Eclipse IDE, tailored to my liking.

Java, C#, Python

JS, TypeScript, Rust

Work web app, game still in stealth mode

I'm always willing to discuss programming languages!

29 posts published

222 comments written

26 tags followed

Eric Ahnell

Sep 13 '20

The Death of my GitHub Organizations... and my own rebirth as a DEV

#github

1 min read

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Eric Ahnell

May 29 '20

Indie Game update: Engine Failure

#gamedev

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

May 27 '20

I don't know what you did to make DEV much more readable on iPad, but thanks!

#a11y #website

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

May 24 '20

Here goes nothing... my first ever commercial indie game project!

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Apr 11 '20

Game Object Variance: Single and Multiple

#java

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Feb 28 '20

DEV Questions 4: L10N and I18N gotchas

#inclusion #design

2 min read

Eric Ahnell

Feb 24 '20

DEV Questions 3: Immediate and retained mode GUI models

#design

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Feb 16 '20

DEV Questions 2: Per-OS customization in cross-platform apps and games

#design

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Feb 9 '20

DEV Questions: Driving faster than the speed of sound in racing games

#design

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Feb 3 '20

Twitter coding quizzes and JavaScript infinite reach

#javascript

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Jan 31 '20

My Experiences In Professional Python

#python

2 min read

Eric Ahnell

Jan 26 '20

Moving the needle forward: mass-upgrading 30 Java games to JDK 11

#gamedev #java #upgrade

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Jan 26 '20

So I tried Kotlin in Eclipse, and here's what happened

#kotlin

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Jan 19 '20

At what point is using software like a DEV for ideas no longer OK?

#discuss #design

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Jan 13 '20

The power of Lua's tables and metatables

#todayilearned #lua

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Jan 11 '20

When related projects develop synergy, both advance faster

#gamedev

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Jan 11 '20

Getting over the hump is hard... and rewarding!

#gamedev

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Jan 8 '20

Coding: the great mystery, just waiting for you to solve it

2 min read

Eric Ahnell

Dec 30 '19

Python is so flexible that I use it as development glue

#python

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Dec 28 '19

When the exit switch is under your nose and you still miss it

#psychology

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Dec 27 '19

Fighting scope creep / creeping featuritis

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Dec 17 '19

Adventures in game image editing

#gamedev #assets

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Dec 1 '19

The Perils of Java's Object.clone() method

#java #codequality

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Oct 30 '19

Just realized I failed the first step in Hacktoberfest... registration.

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Oct 9 '19

Hacktoberfest has been an unmitigated disaster for me thus far

#help #hacktoberfest

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Sep 15 '19

I Link Resources to Enumeration Constants; Why You Should Too!

#reason #productivity #codequality

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Sep 9 '19

Java compiler error cascades... and fixing them

#watercooler #programming #java #refactorit

2 min read

Eric Ahnell

Sep 2 '19

Where do you report bugs in DEV itself? I think I just found one...

1 min read

Eric Ahnell

Aug 4 '19

Game Development Postmortem: TallerTower

#gamedev

1 min read

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