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- May 01 2012
Coming to Montreal and Boston: Introduction to HTML5 Game Development
A few weeks ago we announced our first Introduction to HTML5 Game Development training. We’re now happy to announce two more training dates: Monday, June 18 in Montreal, and Saturday, July 21 in Boston. The Montreal class will be held at CRIM for $295 Canadian, with a $140 rebate after the class if you work […]
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- Apr 18 2012
Introducing the Miso Project and Dataset Library
Over the past 3 months Bocoup has been working closely with the Guardian Interactive team on the Miso Project, a set of open source libraries designed to expedite and simplify the creation of data-driven interactive content. We are excited to announce the release of the first of these libraries called Dataset. You can see the […]
Continue ReadingIntroducing the Miso Project and Dataset Library - Apr 17 2012
Third-Party JavaScript Development: CSS Defensive Techniques
(In a previous article, I introduced a convenient method for shipping stylesheets with your third-party JavaScript application.) When styling content in your third-party JavaScript application, you have a unique challenge to overcome: interference. The publisher may have used any number of techniques to define styles, and many of them threaten to modify the appearance of […]
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- Apr 10 2012
Third-Party JavaScript Development: Optimizing CSS Delivery
As a practicing masochist, I have recently developed an interest in third-party JavaScript application development. I’m not alone: third-party JavaScript (or “3PJS”) applications are becoming more and more common on the web (see Disqus, Optimizely, and Google Analytics, for instance). Like any developing methodology, best practices are constantly being explored and re-defined. In this article, […]
Continue ReadingThird-Party JavaScript Development: Optimizing CSS Delivery - Apr 04 2012
Ringmark Tests Open Source
I am really excited that the tests powering Ringmark have been pushed up to Facebook’s fork of coremob/coremob-tests repo on GitHub. Read more about it on Facebook’s dev blog. We think that unit test authoring will be a great way for web developers to engage in the standards process, and so we are looking forward […]
Continue ReadingRingmark Tests Open Source - Apr 02 2012
Build New Games Launch
Today we launched Build New Games on the main stage at JSConf with our friends from the Microsoft IE Team. Build New Games is a new resource for developers who want to build and release cross browser and cross device Open Web games. Over the next several months, we will be working with the throngs […]
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- Mar 29 2012
Introducing Grunt
I’ve been working on a new open-source project lately. To be honest, I’ve been so busy coding that I haven’t had time to write about it, but since everyone at Bocoup got together the other day and told me I had to write a blog post—apparently they’re pretty excited—I’d like to introduce grunt. What is […]
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- Mar 27 2012
New Training: Introduction to HTML5 Game Development
HTML5 game development is a hot topic — we’re keenly aware of this at Bocoup, given our sold-out New Game Conference last year and our standing-room-only HTML5 Tutorial Day at the Game Developers Conference earlier this month. As such, we’re pleased to offer our Introduction to HTML5 Game Development training to the general public for […]
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- Mar 26 2012
Welcome Rebecca Murphey
We are excited to announce that Rebecca Murphey will be joining Bocoup’s consulting team in May. Rebecca’s commitment to the Open Web is very aligned with Bocoup’s mission, and she’s been a great collaborator over the years. Rebecca’s roles as a host on YayQuery, creator of TXJS, and author of the jQuery Fundamentals book are […]
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- Mar 20 2012
Bocoup goes to Washington
Good news, everyone – Bocoup is bringing training classes to Washington DC! We’re pleased to announce two new trainings in the Washington, DC area with the one-and-only Richard Worth. Richard will be delivering his popular HTML5 for Programmers course April 18-20 and Comprehensive jQuery May 9-11 at the Dulles, Virginia AOL Campus. Both courses are […]
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