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- 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 […]
Continue ReadingHow Node.js Makes Network Code More Testable - 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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