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- Apr 30 2013
Welcome Kacie Cabral
The next time you stop by the Bocoup Loft, there will be a new face greeting you at the door – Kacie Cabral. As Bocoup’s newest team member and Office Assistant, Kacie will be helping keep the Bocoup Loft in top-form for meetups and community events in addition to organizing travel and inventory for her […]
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- Apr 22 2013
The Dimensions of Web Design
The 5-dimensional Web Today’s web has at least five dimensions: Width Height Time – Site content is constantly changing and being added. Hardware – Content needs to be usable on a variety of devices. Software – Different users have different browser capabilities and settings. Good websites embrace this complexity as a competitive advantage. Bad websites […]
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Random Number Generation in JavaScript
Paul Irish recently gave a talk at Bocoup with a dire warning: “The Mobile Web is in Trouble.” The general theme of the talk, somewhat apparent from the title, revolved around developers moving to native apps for performance, capabilities and discoverability. Near the end of the talk he offered a challenge–developers working on the Open […]
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Announcing OpenGenderTracker
Computationally Tracking Gender Balance in News Content with Open Web Technologies Last fall, the Knight Foundation granted us from the Prototype Fund to build OpenGenderTracker, a suite of open source tools for analyzing and visualizing gender representation in journalism through the examination of pronouns in bylines and news content. Bocoupers Irene Ros and Adam Hyland […]
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- Apr 04 2013
Welcome Corey Frang
We’re excited to announce that our friend and colleague Corey Frang has joined us at Bocoup. Corey is a talented programmer and computer scientist who has long been a contributor to open source technologies. As a jQuery core committer, Corey led the jQuery Effects rewrite, and currently serves on the jQuery Foundation Board of Directors. […]
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- Apr 03 2013
Welcome Brendan McLoughlin
We’re happy to announce that Brendan McLoughlin has joined Bocoup as a member of our consulting team. Brendan is an Open Web programmer with full-stack web development experience, who impressed us with his contribitions to open source projects including knockout.js and audioPromise. Commitment to open technologies is paramount at Bocoup – we’re excited that Brendan […]
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- Mar 25 2013
Learn CSS Layout Meets Latin America
Last week I translated Greg Smith’s Learn CSS Layout into Spanish in an effort to bring this amazing guide to more people around the world. When I was in college, Spanish-language resources for learning about new Web Design technologies were very limited. Not only was finding them difficult, but the resources were also frequently out […]
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- Mar 19 2013
Welcome K.Adam White
A few weeks ago, Bocoup announced a casting call for our Open Web stand-up comedy troupe. K.Adam White heard our call, impressed us with his impeccable comedic delivery, and has joined our team this week! K.Adam (pronounced “KAdam”) comes to Bocoup by way of Grand Circle Corporation, where he was the lead front end developer. […]
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- Mar 05 2013
Getting Started with Mozilla Gaia
Mozilla recently announced FirefoxOS, an innovative project for mobile devices that uses Open Web standards to write UI and applications in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The team at Mozilla has done an incredible amount of work connecting a version of Gecko made specifically for the mobile operating system, to Gaia, the web technology-driven UI of […]
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Learn CSS Layout
Learn CSS Layout is a new learning and reference site I made in my open source time here at Bocoup. Although there are lots of resources on the web for learning CSS layout techniques, we’ve had trouble finding ones we’re comfortable recommending. Learnlayout.com is an enlightening and accessible look at modern techniques for beginners, while […]
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