Ben Scheirman

Houston, TX

Age: 32

I'm an agile software developer working out of Houston, TX. I work as the Director of Development at ChaiONE where I build applications using Ruby on Rails, and Objective-C.

My latest project is NSScreencast a place to get bite-sized videos on iOS Development.

Other projects include:

AppKickstand - free single-page website for iPhone apps
GiggleTouch for iPhone & iPad.

You can find me on twitter or on my blog.

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