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- Aug 12 2013
Welcome Evelyn Eastmond
We are happy to announce that Evelyn Eastmond has joined our consulting team at Bocoup. Evelyn is a talented, innovative Open Web programmer and artist who impressed us with her early leadership on MIT’s Scratch project while serving as one of its original developers. Evelyn is now working with the Processing team on porting Processing […]
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- Jun 24 2013
Welcome Back Tim Branyen
Se mon plaisir to welcome Tim Branyen back onto the team at Bocoup. Tim joined our team three years ago after he helped organize the first ever Boston jQuery Meetup at Bocoup. After two years moving the Open Web forward at Bocoup, Tim left Bocoup to work at a startup for a year, where he […]
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- Jun 18 2013
Information Hiding in JavaScript
Why would Bocoup, a company whose charge is to “move the open web forward,” be publishing an article on something so nefarious-sounding as “information hiding”? An article titled “Free Love & Information in JavaScript” would seem much more apt for this blog. Trust me: if information hiding were an inherently immoral practice, I wouldn’t know […]
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- Jun 13 2013
Welcome Eric O’Connor
We’re excited to announce that Eric O’Connor has joined our engineering team. Eric has been a member of the family for some time now, originally as a coworker at the Bocoup Loft, and then through the evening cryptography research that he and Mike worked on together at Bocoup. Eric is especially interested in language design, […]
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- Jun 06 2013
Thoughts from the First Ever OpenVis Conf, 2013
Bocoup recently ran our first-ever OpenVis Conf May 16-17, 2013 in Boston. We were thrilled to bring together 216 developers, designers, and data researchers from around the globe to discuss moving data visualization forward on the Open Web. While data visualization and storytelling are well-established fields, combining these arts and bringing them to the web […]
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- Jun 04 2013
Welcome Bob Holt
Bob Holt has joined our engineering team at Bocoup, and we couldn’t be happier! We came to know Bob through his active involvement in Boston-area JavaScript and jQuery meetup communities, but he has really impressed us with his contributions to Open Source. Bob crafted Keel, a stabilizing framework for Backbone applications, in addition to contributing […]
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- Jun 03 2013
Global Name Data
Open Data, Open Gender Tracker and the Open Web Open data is a core element to building data visualization on the Open Web, driving our ability to reproduce, tinker with and expand visualizations. In a tool like Open Gender Tracker, open data becomes invaluable. Open Gender Tracker relies on name and gender mappings in order […]
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- May 29 2013
Introducing d3.chart
A Framework for Creating Reusable Charts with d3.js We’ve been working more and more with d3.js here at Bocoup with clients and as part of the Miso Project. As much as we love the library and are grateful that it exists, we’ve also run head-on into architectural issues with some of the patterns commonly used […]
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- May 28 2013
Exploring Reusability with D3.js
The D3.js JavaScript library frequently comes up across our adventures in data visualization. Those who read the tutorials or spend time on the mailing list will likely notice frequent use of the term “reusable” when it comes to creating visualizations with the library. There’s a lot of meaning packed into that word, so we wanted […]
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Open Peer and the Frontiers of WebRTC
At Bocoup, we love working on the latest problems in front-end development such as parallel processing, best practices in web application development, and media-rich experiences. This is why we consider the folks at HookFlash kindred spirits; they have made browser-based peer-to-peer communication their “thing”. We recently had the privilege of working with the HookFlash team, […]
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