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
Book
Third-party JavaScript by Ben Vinegar and Anton Kovalyov. Available from Manning Publications. Estimated publication date is December 2012.
Speaking
Nov 2012
Paris, France – Seamless Iframes: The future, today! • JSeverywhere.eu
Oct 2012
San Francisco, CA – Seamless Iframes: The future, today! • HTML5DevConf 2012
Jul 2012
New York, NY – Seamless Iframes: The future, today! • GothamJS 2012 (Slides )
Nov 2011
Online – jQuery & Iframe Programming • jQuery Summit 2011
Aug 2011
Toronto, Canada – Re-introduction to Third-party Scripting • TechTalksTO: Underground (Slides )
Jul 2011
Austin, TX – Modern Iframe Programming • TXJS 2011 (Slides )
Oct 2010
Boston, MA – Building Distributed Widgets with jQuery • jQueryConf Boston 2010 (Slides )
Mar 2008
Austin, TX – Building Developer Friendly APIs • SXSW 2008
Projects
Guestlist Web based service for managing your events online.jquery-jsonpi Enables the 'jsonpi' data type for jQuery's $.ajax.couchdb-xd Cross-domain AJAX for CouchDB.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.