Ben Schwarz is a well known Melbourne based developer who funds his love of good food (at home) and sake (in bars) by designing sophisticated web applications using standards based technology.
More than anything else, he is driven by a maniacal desire to produce not only elegant code, but also beautiful software in the hands of its users.

2011

December

Stress, and creation

We trade a lot more than just time to practice our craft

August

False fears

Fail, make mistakes and poor judgements… but for gods sake, do something!

July

Stepping into attribute selectors

Its well past prime time to use more complex selectors in CSS to our advantages

February

HTML5, for web developers

MELBOURNE, Australia—Feburary 22, 8AM AEST

Taking the web back

Looking beyond working groups

January

Citylink's new site

Built by a "professional"?

2010

May

W3C Design

How design could save the W3C

April

Stop writing plans

We all have great ideas, but to be fair to our craft, sometimes we have to forget them.

March

Web design with grids

The technique that I've been using to work on page layouts

February

Hacking ruby's autoload

How and why I overrode Kernel.autoload

2009

July

Growing up

Looking back, my representation on the web has always been pretty half assed.

RubyKaigi, a western perspective

As the plane descended into Narita I felt a throbbing pain in my ear that felt like the side of my head was going to explode like an ACME bomb on a roadrunner cartoon.