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An archive of articles
written by Ben Schwarz

2010

May: Moving towards readable W3C specs

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

November: Why Ruby? 4th Quarter '09 edition

A summary that doesn't talk about Ruby being "beautiful" or "expressive"

August: Getting shit done, with software

More features makes for better software, right?

July: Growing up with a new site

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.

About the author

Ben Schwarz is web architect hailing from Melbourne who has a strong focus on user experience and scalable content delivery. These interests overflow into his programming and development work that he has conducted over the past 9 years. contact via email or read more

Upcoming events

Web Directions South

I'll be giving a both a HTML5 workshop and a talk at the web directions conference in Sydney.

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