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Over the past few days, a lot of you have probably heard the rumors that a particular member of the NBA was leaving to join Bocoup. Today, I’m happy to address – and confirm – those rumors and announce that Chris Bosh is the newest member of the Coop! Chris has over 15 years of […]

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Welcome Chris Bosh

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It is with great happiness that we’re rolling out the welcome mat to welcome Matt Surabian to our engineering team! Matt’s spent his last few years at Ceros (and his entire career) focused on building – and deploying – web applications. He’s also enthusiastic about education, and his development blog is but one example of […]

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Welcome Matt Surabian

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I’m elated to announce that Ashley G. Williams has joined the education team at Bocoup! Ashley comes to Bocoup from the Flatiron School where she was lead instructor for the 22-week NYC Web Development Fellowship program. Prior to that, she taught in the New York public school system for three years as a NYC Teaching […]

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Welcome Ashley Williams

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I’m happy to announce the newest member of our engineering team is another familiar face – Trevor Sayre! Trevor has been a part of Bocoup since he brought Gradient Studios to the loft to cowork in 2010, and we’re excited to have his talents in the fold. In addition to building games on the open […]

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Welcome Trevor Sayre

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Life on the cutting edge can be treacherous. At any moment, your web browser may dramatically update its user interface. Your e-reader might take your books away. Your favorite snack cake could disappear from store shelves. For many, the uncertainty of this lifestyle just isn’t worth it. Fortunately, when it comes to Node.js development, you […]

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Proactive Node.js Development with Travis CI

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• deployment,
• performance

After several years of coworking with us at the Bocoup Loft, I’m excited to announce that Michael “Z” Goddard has stayed with us through our move to the North End and has made a move of his own – onto the engineering team here at Bocoup! Z has been working as a game developer – […]

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Welcome Z Goddard

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Johnny-Five was first released in 2012 and since then, we’ve spent a lot of time attempting to “prove” that JavaScript is capable of things that robotics programming has long taken for granted. Specifically, we’ve used the Johnny-Five framework to recreate popular hobbyist robotics projects that were previously written in C. In this article, I’m presenting […]

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JavaScript: Arduino, Kinect Controlled Robot Arm

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• javascript robotics,
• johnny-five,
• microprocessor,
• nodebots,
• tutorial,
• web connected devices

It’s been about eight months since we announced d3.chart, and today we’re excited to release a new version of the framework for creating reusable visualizations. We’ve strived to incorporate as many of the lessons we learned in the eight months since the initial release. For detailed explanations of these changes, see our migration guide and […]

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d3.chart v0.2: Iterating on Reusability

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• data analysis,
• data visualization,
• design,
• miso project,
• open source

One of my favorite things about programming in node is the package management system. In almost all instances, the practice of locally installing modules for each project has simplified my life as a developer. However, as a long time contributor to Grunt, I have become intimately familiar with one edge case where this practice breaks […]

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Building Command Line Tools in Node with Liftoff

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• deployment,
• open source,
• tools and workflow

Software development is a lot like meeting a friend for dinner. I’m serious! Every now and then I find myself sitting at a restaurant bar at 6:58 waiting for my friend to show up for our 7 o’clock reservation. All of a sudden I get a text: “Running 5 minutes late. See you soon.” Well, […]

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Time Estimation, Software, and Dinner

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