Hi there. I’m Greg.

I’m a web designer, developer and photographer from Indianapolis, IN.

While getting my undergrad at Purdue University, I got sucked into the web and the viral nature of it. I started a fan web site for Pearl Jam that grew in popularity very quickly. I was interacting with thousands of people from all over the world. Very quickly, I learned what mattered. That place in 1996 is where I started to hone my craft – Pre-blogging, pre-Twitter, pre-Facebook.

From there I ran several very popular websites for this new thing called DVD. We were doing tens of thousands of visitors per day. Writing stories, inside perspectives, and reviews. I was also the web master. It was my job to make it fast and easy for people to use.

Cutting edge technology was never my main motivation. It was all about what made the most sense for the task. Sometimes that was the cutting edge. Most of the time it wasn’t.

Sure, I’ve created many a site in Microsoft (ASP, VB, .NET, SQL Server) and open source (php, python, Java, MySql) technologies, but lately there is one that gets me going the most. Ruby.

Ruby takes the readability of ASP/VB and combines it with the power of object oriented languages like Java, C++ and .Net. It flows. It’s logical. One guy, Matz, methodically designed this fun way for me to create.

Then David Heinemeier Hansson came along and built a framework that changed everything. Ruby on Rails. I’ve been developing sites with it for three years and I still enjoy it every day.

If you are interested in talking about some projects you need help with, I’ll be glad to help. I even have some great people I work with that I can bring into the conversation.

You can reach me at gbenedict [at] gmail [dot] com.