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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 […]
Continue ReadingLearn CSS Layout - Feb 25 2013
Open Source Everything: Working with the jQuery Foundation
One of the awesome things about being a Bocouper is being able to use a quarter of your time to explore and work on open source. Whether it’s just trying out new tools or regularly contributing to a large project, it’s a great way for us to improve and give back to the technologies we […]
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- Feb 25 2013
Ember.js Training from Tilde at Bocoup
We’re so excited that our friends Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale from Tilde will be stopping by the Bocoup Loft to deliver Introduction to Ember training April 22-24. At Bocoup, we support a wide variety of Open Web technologies. We believe in the right tool for the job, so we’re actively exploring different MV* libraries […]
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- Feb 20 2013
Making a RapBot with JavaScript
This post talks about the development of RapBot, my freestyle 80s battle rap generator. You might want to see it in action before reading on, and you can check out the source code here. For the past year I’ve been using the Wordnik API in my projects to generate random words. I’ve made extensive use […]
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- Feb 18 2013
Tearing Grunt Apart
Introducing Grunt v0.4 For the last nine months, I’ve been working with Ben and our team of fantastic contributors to modularize the Grunt codebase. Today, we’re happy to announce that Grunt v0.4 has been published to npm. Hold on to your hats, a lot has changed! Architectural Improvements The primary focus of this version can […]
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- Feb 18 2013
Hangout with Bocoup
The Bocoup Loft is a fun and inspiring place to be. Between the technical debates and conversations amongst Bocoupers, regularly scheduled classes and meetups, and the occasional banana-themed event, 355 Congress St. is a very lively place! For the past few months, we’ve been experimenting with bringing that liveliness online via our Bocoup on Air […]
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- Feb 13 2013
Bring Out Your Bugs!
At Bocoup, we’ve long been advocates of bringing open source practices to new communities wherever we go. That’s why we’re excited to join OpenHatch and Harvard Women in CS at Harvard University this weekend to introduce the student community to the open source process. OpenHatch is a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors […]
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- Feb 11 2013
Welcome Adam Hyland
We are pleased to announce that Adam Hyland has joined the Bocoup team as a data visualization intern. Adam brings expertise in statistical software development and data modeling to Bocoup’s data visualization projects. Through his background as an economist and R programmer, Adam has a wealth of experience in data handling and visualization, as well […]
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