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- Jan 03 2013
Realtime Node.js App: Stress Testing Procedure
This post is the second in a three-part series describing our investigations into scalability for a second screen application we built for PBS. You can read the introduction here. This guide assumes you have a production server up and running. If you need help getting there, check out the final post in the series for […]
Continue ReadingRealtime Node.js App: Stress Testing Procedure - Dec 18 2012
Realtime Node.js App: A Stress Testing Story
This post is the first in a three-part series describing our investigations into scalability for a second screen application we built with PBS. You can read more about the project in the series introduction here. Some Background We built the Map Center second-screen application in Node.js with the help of a number of open-source libraries. […]
Continue ReadingRealtime Node.js App: A Stress Testing Story - Dec 14 2012
Bocoup & PBS: Building and Scaling a Realtime Node.js Application
This summer, Bocoup worked with Mozilla and PBS to build an open source, real-time web application for the 2012 US Presidential election. When we began, PBS (specifically, the folks at News Hour) had already completed a client-side application called “Map Center“. Map Center enabled users to view US demographic data and experiment with electoral college […]
Continue ReadingBocoup & PBS: Building and Scaling a Realtime Node.js Application - Dec 13 2012
Dive into Flexbox
Introduction Flexbox is a new layout mode in CSS3 that is designed for the more sophisticated needs of the modern web. This article will describe the newly-stablized Flexbox syntax in technical detail. Browser support is going to grow quickly, so you’ll be ahead of the game when support is wide enough for Flexbox to be […]
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- tools and workflow
- Nov 28 2012
Announcing: OpenVis Conf
Many people are inspired by the fantastic data visualizations published on the Open Web every day, but the practice of creating these engaging pieces is often shrouded in mystery. The first OpenVis Conf — set for May 16-17 in Boston — aims to change that, with two days of talks focused entirely on the process […]
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- data visualization
- Nov 20 2012
Introducing Bocoup Screencasts
Many of us here at Bocoup spend a lot of our time helping others get better at JavaScript and working with open web technologies, from Adam Sontag working with folks to solve their problems in the #jquery IRC channel, to Ben Alman working out the perfect way to explain an IIFE, to Greg Smith guiding […]
Continue ReadingIntroducing Bocoup Screencasts - Nov 15 2012
Good Bye Pete
Our good friend, and my longtime collaborator, Pete Karl, is leaving Bocoup. Pete was employee number five at Bocoup and over the past two plus years we have learned so much from him. From his earliest days shipping KLOCs to clients, he immediately started molding Bocoup into a more efficient software company, eventually moving on […]
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- Nov 09 2012
Building Your Control Flow with Miso.Storyboard
Today we at the Miso Project are excited to release a new library, called Storyboard, our state management library for control flow of interactive interfaces. As more and more of our code is written in an asynchronous manner, managing the flow of our code becomes more challenging. Event broadcasting and subscriptions is a common pattern […]
Continue ReadingBuilding Your Control Flow with Miso.Storyboard - Oct 29 2012
Miso Dataset 0.3 Release
This post was written in collaboration with Alex Graul, Miso Project‘s co-creator. We are excited to release version 0.3.0 of Miso Dataset today that is full of new features. For the gory details, you can take a look at the closed issues, but this post will cover the major enhancements to the Dataset library. Miso […]
Continue ReadingMiso Dataset 0.3 Release - Oct 16 2012
ReConstitution 2012 – Live Debate Deconstruction and Visualization
If you’re planning to catch the U.S. presidential debates tonight, you should have a second screen open and a browser pointed to ReConstitution 2012, a web application that we collaborated on with Sosolimited for The Creators Project. ReConstitution 2012 is a live deconstruction of the presidential debates. It scrapes the closed caption data from the […]
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- data analysis,
- data visualization,
- design