Syntactic Vinegar

Ben Vinegar is a web application developer with a penchant for JavaScript and Ruby. He's currently employed as a Front-end Engineer at Disqus, where he focuses on building their embedded commenting widget.

You can also find him on Twitter and GitHub.

Recent Posts

• Mar 2011Subdomain tunneling with jQuery and document.domain
• Jan 2011What it's like to live in San Francisco
• Aug 2010Set JavaScript breakpoints programatically
• Jul 2010Belated project announcements: Malt, CouchDB-xd
• Jul 2010How do you sync your dotfiles?

Book

Third-party JavaScript by Ben Vinegar and Anton Kovalyov. Available from Manning Publications. Estimated publication date is Spring 2012.

Speaking

• Nov 2011 jQuery & Iframe Programming • jQuery Summit 2011
• Aug 2011 Re-introduction to Third-party Scripting • TechTalksTO: Underground (Slides)
• Jul 2011 Modern Iframe Programming • TXJS 2011 (Slides)
• Oct 2010 Building Distributed Widgets with jQuery • jQueryConf Boston 2010 (Slides)
• Mar 2008 Building Developer Friendly APIs • SXSW 2008

Projects

• Guestlist Web based service for managing your events online.
• Malt.js Asynchronous JavaScript dependency manager.
• Abbreviator jQuery plugin that abbreviates text to fit small containers.
• Labelize jQuery plugin for creating block labels for input elements.
• FreshBooks.rb Ruby wrapper for the FreshBooks API.
• Reddish Mephisto blogging theme.