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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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• software development process

Many readers will recognize the following program, which is an adaptation of The Little Schemer’s Y combinator implementation; written and published by Douglas Crockford in 2003 to demonstrate the commonalities found between JavaScript and Scheme. If you’re unfamiliar with recursion, fixed point combinators or the “Y combinator”, take a look at the Wikipedia article and […]

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The Little JavaScripter, Revisited

• Tagged in:
• performance,
• web standards

Four years ago, when Darius first came by Bocoup for some help writing Akihabara Engine documentation, we were all instantly drawn to his excitement for games and the web. A year later, when I called Darius and invited him to work at Bocoup, he was just as thrilled to join the family as we were […]

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Good-Bye Darius

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• news

Imagine you are working in your shell, you could be in any directory anywhere, but you want to go to ~/Projects/MyProject. You’re probably used to typing something like this: cd ~/Proj[tab]/MyPro[tab] Wouldn’t it be nice if you could end up in the exact folder you want with just: cd MyProject The CDPATH environment variable Much like the […]

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Shell Hacking – CDPATH

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• tools and workflow

A new, friendly face will be greeting you the next time you stop by the Bocoup Loft! I’m excited to share that Claire Rittershaus has joined us as our new Office Manager. Claire will be keeping the Bocoup Loft in top-form in addition to organizing traveling Bocoupers and Bocoup’s extensive sticker inventory. Next time you’re […]

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Welcome Claire Rittershaus

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• news

Translating data visualization to smaller resolutions is a challenge that can’t be solved with responsive design techniques alone. New interaction models and different visualization techniques are required to accomodate smaller interfaces. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this problem as part of our consulting work and are very excited to be one of […]

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Announcing: Data Visualization Best Practices on Mobile Devices – Our New Knight Foundation Prototype Grant

• Tagged in:
• data analysis,
• data visualization,
• design

In the world of web design it’s more common to condemn or praise existing work than it is to talk about the actual process of creating something great. For example, over the years I’ve complained more and more about restaurant websites. I don’t just mean the ones that play background music, rely on Flash, use […]

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Nom: My Process For Designing a Restaurant Site

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• design,
• software development process

Hi, I’m Lidza, and I’ve just completed the Open Web Engineering Fellowship at Bocoup – this post is about my experience learning web application development. Background The Open Web Engineering Fellowship at Bocoup was my first experience with front-end web application development. My background is in working with the Linux Kernel, specifically device drivers. While […]

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My Experience as a Bocoup Fellow

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• bocoup,
• training