Ben Scheirman talks with Dave Rael about open source software, speaking, writing, screencasting, and geeking out
Ben Scheirman is an experienced software developer from Houston, TX. He is the founder of NSScreencast, a site with over 350 screencasts on iOS and Mac development. Ben also runs Fickle Bits, LLC, where he builds apps for clients using Swift, Objective-C, and Ruby. When not programming, you can find Ben playing guitar, playing board games, or making award-winning Texas BBQ.
Chapters:
- - Ben's early involvement in open source and the evolution of the ways of building software
- - Ben's pivotal moment - turning away from .NET and encountering the iPhone
- - The reasons software appeals to Ben and how he got started in software
- - Why Ben started screencasting and what he has to offer
- - Ben's interest in BBQ and geeking out on cooking meats
- - Ben on parenting and productivity
- - Ben's story of failure - building an app with input only from the wrong people
- - Ben's book writing experience
- - Ben's book recommendations
- - Ben's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Ben
Resources:
- NSScreencast
- ASP.NET MVC in Action: With MvcContrib, NHibernate, and More - Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman, Jimmy Bogard
- Dru Sellers on Developer On Fire
- Web 2.0
- Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
- Clarke's Three Laws
- QBasic
- Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground - Kevin Poulsen
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker - Kevin Mitnick
- autoexec.bat
- RailsCasts
- NeXTSTEP
- Mark Seemann on .NET Rocks!: Constraints Liberate
- Things
- The Pragmatic Bookshelf
- App Dev Diary
- vibrato.fm/
Ben's book recommendation:
Ben's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Record video to share what you're working on and communicate about what is needed
- Include video and/or a picture in any pull request including visual elements
- Write tests and if it's hard to write test think about how you might improve design so that you can write tests