Ben Centra

Many of Twitter Bootstrap’s JavaScript components rely on HTML data attributes for configuration or triggering. For example, the Modal component requires you set data-toggle="modal" on the element, usually a button, that will trigger the modal being displayed. This is all well and good until you want to have one HTML...

This past weekend was BarCamp Boston 9, two days of presentations, people, and pizza. I attended a number of interesting and informative talks including “How Not to Rails” by @grantovich, “Intro to the Boston Tech Scene” by @JayNeely, and a round of Lightning Talks led by @GrantCohoe. Listening to talks...

At Constant Contact’s Engineers4Engineers conference this year, Kyle Simpson (@getify) gave a great talk about Asynchronous JavaScript. Aside from a better understanding of Promises, an interesting tidbit stuck with me. While he was introducing himself he showed a screenshot of his GitHub contributions that looked a lot like this: Kyle...

I am currently debating switching web hosts from Webfaction to DigitalOcean. Both hosts are marketed towards “developers,” both are relatively cheap, and both have a number of services in common: one-click deploys, detailed web interfaces, online support documentation, and more. Despite the similarities, the two hosts each have their own...