- Home
- » Speakers
- » Ben Farrell
Ben Farrell
Ben currently works as a Flex/Flash/Javascript/iOS/UI developer at Digitalsmiths in Durham, NC. There, he creates front ends for their video search technology and makes video players for high-profile customers.
Prior to Digitalsmiths, Ben worked at 360KID in Boston, MA where he helped create educational games and applications for top publishers like Pearson and McGraw Hill, Nickelodeon Jr., and Sesame Street earning multiple awards including two Emmy Nominations.
He is also heavily involved with Codebass Radio, a streaming radio station geared towards developers. Somewhat related to Codebass, Ben is also the main developer for MediaSlurp, a desktop and mobile community based content aggregator.
Ben is also very interested in music as well as musical/UI experimentation. He has written several codebass.net articles on dynamic music creation in Flash, and has given a talk at NCDevCon on the subject. Ben is also currently working on Flashamaphone, an open source Flash live instrumentation engine.











