Author Archives: Carter Rabasa

About Carter Rabasa

Seattle-based, coffee-fueled Developer Evangelist Manager at Twilio. Easy to get in touch with: [e] carter@twilio.com [t] @CarterRabasa [m] +12067455000

Seattle Hacks – Using Github Pages and Jekyll To Finally Create The Noiseless Hacker Calendar

After about a year of working for Twilio as a Developer Evangelist in Seattle, I was still having trouble answering simple, recurring questions: What are the best developer meetups in Seattle? Are there any cool hackathons or conferences coming up? … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on April 30, 2013 Tagged , , , , ,

Building a Real-time SMS Voting App Part 3: Scaling Node.js and CouchDB

This is the third in a four-part series of blog posts on building a real-time SMS and voice voting application using Node.js. In part one, we created the Node.js application and captured incoming votes over SMS. In part two, we … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on January 16, 2013 Tagged , , , , , ,

Building a Real-time SMS Voting App Part 2: Socket.io and Highcharts.js

This is the second in a four-part series of blog posts on building a real-time SMS voting application using Node.js. In part one, we created the Node.js application, set-up the CouchDB database and captured incoming votes over SMS with Twilio. … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on December 5, 2012 Tagged , , , , , ,

Shipping a Conference – CascadiaJS

Join the conversation on Hacker News! Back in July, someone named Troy Howard sent me a tweet. I didn’t know him personally, but I knew he was involved in the JavaScript community in Portland: @thoward37 had a quick question (@mikeal … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on November 15, 2012 Tagged , , , , , ,

Building a Real-time SMS Voting App Part 1: Node.js & CouchDB

This is the first in a four-part series of blog posts on building a real-time SMS and voice voting application using Node.js. In part one, we will create the Node.js application, set-up the CouchDB database and connect everything to Twilio … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on September 18, 2012 Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Cloud Powered Trash Talking for Your Fantasy Draft

Are you ready for some foooootbaaalllll?! I know I am. I grew up in the Washington, DC area and am currently suffering from RGIII fever, so forgive me if I sound a bit giddy. The start of the NFL season … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on August 31, 2012 Tagged , , , ,

DOers in Africa: Empowering People Through Mobile Technology

This past June I was fortunate enough to play host to an entrepreneur by the name of Assane Seck.  Assane is the founder and CEO of Djanoa, a cloud SMS platform that is currently in beta in Senegal.  Assane was … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on August 15, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Twilio Makes a Comeback in Seattle with Office Hours & Startup Weekend

This post was originally posted on the Startup Weekend blog, found here. Carter Rabasa is a Twilio Developer Evangelist based in Seattle and he’s looking forward to meeting all the local developers so say hello at carter@twilio.com. Twilio is gearing … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on May 17, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Startup Weekend Launches its GOV Initiative in Seattle

This past weekend Startup Weekend kicked-off it’s GOV initiative in Seattle.  The premise is simple: connect communities and governments to innovative and entrepreneurial people.  Startup Weekend has done such a great job of rallying these DOers over the years in order … Continue reading →

Posted by Carter Rabasa on May 7, 2012 Tagged , , ,