Announcing Chatter: a library for making interactive chat bots on slack and more

Introducing Grunt

New Training: Building Web Applications with Backbone.js

Training: Bocoup goes to Portland

Training: jQuery San Francisco

The “catch” with try…catch

Ben Alman is the creator of [Grunt](http://gruntjs.com) and is a frequent contributor to the open source [jQuery](http://jquery.com/), [jQuery Mobile](http://jquerymobile.com/) and [Modernizr](http://www.modernizr.com/) projects.

In addition to his client work at Bocoup, Ben writes articles and gives [presentations](https://github.com/cowboy/talks) advocating JavaScript best practices. Ben has also created and maintains a number of very popular open source [JavaScript projects](http://benalman.com/projects/javascript/) and [jQuery plugins](http://benalman.com/projects/jquery/).