Benjamin Rister

Updated: Jul 25, 2008 at 11:14 am

"President/Janitor of Decimus Software, makers of Synk, DTerm, and Screen Mimic."

Collaboration

We're Hiring

"I need a UI/user experience/shiny partner. It's hard to design something insanely great with only one point of view, and I also lack the graphical chops to really design super-attractive chrome.

http://www.decimus.net/jobs/ui-graphics-guru.php"

Portfolio

Synk Backup/Standard/Pro

Line of backup and synchronization software. Learn more

What I did: "Designer and lead developer. Coded everything but the UI code in the frontend app."

 

DTerm

Pop-up context-sensitive command line. Integrates command line work into your normal workflow, instead of banishing it to Terminal.app. Learn more

What I did: "Designed and developed all personally."

 

Screen Mimic

Screen capture application that exports to SWF, FLV, or QT. Learn more

What I did: "Purchased Polarian Technologies, the original developer. =) Making improvements and fixes over time. As of June '08, have our first largish bugfix/polish release in beta."

 

My skills

Projects I'm interested in...

Design

  • Interaction Design

Coding

  • Cocoa
  • Carbon
  • Python
  • Java
  • Ruby
  • Server-Side Scripting (PHP/Rails/etc)

Application Genres

Business, Development, Education, Home & Personal, Multimedia & Design, Games, Internet, Utilities, and Productivity

Licensing

Commercial

Platforms

Mac