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- Dec 10 2013
Counting Uniforms in WebGL
For a recent consulting project I was attempting to render some fairly complex skeletal animations in WebGL on Firefox and Chrome. I quickly ran into a situation where the animation was rendering on Linux and Mac computers, but not on Windows. All the test machines had up-to-date graphics drivers, but the Windows machines threw a […]
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- design,
- performance
- Nov 26 2013
Good-bye Dan
My dear friend Dan Heberden has left Bocoup to join another former Bocouper at Bazaarvoice. Dan and I met years ago through the jQuery community, and it has been an honor to build Bocoup along side him. I am excited to continue working with Dan as a member of Bocoup’s extended family and through the […]
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- Nov 18 2013
Bonjour Gare Du Nord
I’m thrilled to announce that Bocoup is moving its headquarters from Fort Point to Bullfinch Triangle in the West End of Boston. Our new headquarters in this historic district will be situated next door to North Station and across from the Boston Garden at 239 Causeway Street. The facility will house our team, coworking for […]
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- Nov 15 2013
Good-bye Richard
Our friend, and one of my mentors, Richard Worth, has left Bocoup to join DonorDirect. During his time at Bocoup, Richard helped jump-start our training initiatives and developed two amazing Open Web engineering courses. Richard also contributed his organizational and leadership skills to start The jQuery Foundation at Bocoup, and to help Bocoup begin to […]
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- Oct 29 2013
Climate Central Surging Seas Risk Finder
We recently had the opportunity to work with the very talented team over at Climate Central, an independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public. The scarcity of resources that convey factual information about the effects of climate change in […]
Continue ReadingClimate Central Surging Seas Risk Finder - Oct 28 2013
Building Multiplayer HTML5 Games with Cloak
Here at Bocoup I’ve been building a lot of multiplayer HTML5 games using Node.js and Socket.io. This stack has been working great for us! We’ve used Socket.io in our work with Game Show Network, PBS and MIT, and we build all kinds of stuff on Node. My experience on these projects has led me to […]
Continue ReadingBuilding Multiplayer HTML5 Games with Cloak - Oct 21 2013
Towards “Responsiveness” with d3.chart.js
While data visualization is growing as a medium on the Open Web, practitioners of the field still struggle to make data visualization “work” on different screens. The question “how do I render at different sizes?” is an important one, but only tackles a portion of the greater challenge of “what does it mean to create […]
Continue ReadingTowards “Responsiveness” with d3.chart.js - Oct 09 2013
Coming Feb 2014 – Roost and jQCon
Roost, Bocoup’s first-ever JavaScript Training Conference, was born one year ago this month. Today, we’re excited to announce our second Roost Conference, to be held February 10-11, 2014 in San Diego. Roost is a two-day event for growing front-end web developers who want to learn more about building modern websites and applications from the JavaScript […]
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- Sep 16 2013
Welcome Yannick Assogba
We are excited to announce that Yannick Assogba has joined Bocoup’s consulting team! Yannick impressed us from the start with his experience building large client-side web applications, and his interest in pushing the boundaries of JavaScript to explore new ideas. We are thrilled to start moving the web forward with Yannick in his new capacity […]
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- Sep 03 2013
How Node.js Makes Network Code More Testable
Introduction Node.js, a server platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript engine, is changing the face of web development. While Node.js itself is fast and scalable, the open source community surrounding Node.js is constantly discovering new ways to make application development more productive. This article will show how Node.js network code can be easier to write automated […]
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