← Home

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.