Dan Benjamin

Dan Benjamin is a writer, software developer, user interface designer, and speaker. He publishes technology articles and tutorials on his popular software development website, Hivelogic, and has been a featured speaker at the programming conference, RailsConf. Dan holds a B.A. in Technical Writing with a Computer Science focus from the University of Central Florida, and has over 15 years of experience.

Work

Dan is the CTO of Rails Machine, the co-founder of Cork’d, the web’s first social network and reviewing application for wine aficionados, which was later acquired by WLTV. He also built publishing tools for A List Apart, Capgemini, Halogen Guides, and others, and has developed software for companies including Convergys, MCI, Vitalsource, and Tupperware.

Dan is an avid writer and speaker with a focus on software development and technology, publishing articles on Hivelogic since 2000. His work has also been published both in print and online on sites including O’Reilly’s Mac Dev Center, A List Apart, and the FreeBSD Journal.

Dan has spoken at conferences including RailsConf, acts_as_conference, LinuxWorld Expo, and others.

Contact

You can , follow his Twitter stream, connect with him on Facebook or LinkedIn, check out his Flickr photos, or visit Hivelogic, where he's been blogging since 2000.

Personal

Dan lives with his wife, son, and a cranky cat in Orlando, Florida. He enjoys writing, jogging, kayaking, Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson films, and Apple hardware. He is a classically trained guitarist, but he's pretty rusty these days. Dan practices daily Vipassana meditation in the Theravada Buddhist tradition.