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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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- Oct 15 2012
Roost – A JavaScript Training Conference from Bocoup
One of the most important ways we accomplish our mission to move the Open Web forward is through helping and training web developers. To this end, we’re working to make open web education as accessible as possible via resources such as jqfundamentals.com, our public classes and workshops, and the Essentials Tours we’re bringing to cities […]
Continue ReadingRoost – A JavaScript Training Conference from Bocoup - Oct 09 2012
Hubway Data Visualization Hack Day at Bocoup
A week or so ago we got some exciting news — The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) is releasing an incredible dataset about the usage of Hubway Bicycles that collects more than half a million rides! Not only is the data being released, but along with it a Visualization Challenge has been announced here. Our […]
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- Oct 05 2012
Welcome Cassie Irwin
We are excited to announce that Cassie Irwin has joined the Bocoup team this week. Cassie comes to us from a software company located in Chicago, IL where she oversaw new product development, performed QA, and coordinated engineer/management communication. Cassie has joined Bocoup to manage software projects, and work with our engineers to support a […]
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- Sep 21 2012
Bye for now, Tim Branyen
The Bocoup team includes some of the smartest, most talented people we know – which has enabled us to do mission-driven work with innovative companies and developers from small startups to Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft. Today, we share our last day with Tim Branyen and celebrate his contributions to Bocoup’s mission and culture. While at […]
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- Sep 18 2012
Introducing Gith – GitHub WebHooks For Node
GitHub offers a great feature called WebHook URLs. You can add a url to take advantage of git’s post-receive hook and get a POST request containing data related to a repository push (e.g., commits, tags, and head-resets). While the data is very detailed and thorough, its complexity and focus on mimicking the git operations make […]
Continue ReadingIntroducing Gith – GitHub WebHooks For Node - Sep 17 2012
Bocoup on Air: Developing for the Mobile Web
We had so much fun with our first Bocoup on Air hangout that we decided to do it again. This time, I chatted with Boaz Sender about a mobile web app he’s been working on, and about the future of the web as an application development platform. Most of our conversation was spent on a […]
Continue ReadingBocoup on Air: Developing for the Mobile Web - Sep 12 2012
Bocoup on Air: Making Robots with JavaScript
In case you missed it, Rick Waldron and I got together recently to talk about Johnny Five, a library that lets you control an Arduino using JavaScript. Rick showed off some of his Johnny Five creations — including a dancing robot — and I got to geek out a bit more about shift registers and […]
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