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- Feb 09 2012
Call for Writers: Game Programming & HTML5
We are excited to announce that Bocoup is curating a series of technical articles, demonstrations, guides, and tutorials that apply open web tech to game development. In the spirit of sites like (24ways.org and HTML5Rocks.com, we are looking for experienced JavaScript/HTML5 programmers to write about building games using open web technologies. The site will launch […]
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Call for Writers: Game Programming & HTML5 - Feb 07 2012
Easily Test jQuery Pre-Release Versions
Get the complete code on github. It’s always exciting when a new major jQuery version (x.x.0) full of bug fixes, new features and performance improvements is released. But that fresh, out of the box excitement can get replaced with anxiety if you find bugs or performance issues with the latest version. This post will cover […]
Continue ReadingEasily Test jQuery Pre-Release Versions - Jan 23 2012
Welcome Jory Burson
We are excited to announce that Jory Burson has joined our team to lead Bocoup’s training efforts. Armed with the twin powers of mass communication & Oklahoma charm, she’ll bring organization and inspiration to this budding community. During the past 7 years, Jory has held roles in live broadcast communications (television and radio), as an […]
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- Jan 18 2012
Startup Data Trends
We are excited to announce a new web application for exploring AngelList Data that we’ve been working on with our friends at Atlas Venture and AngelList: Startup Data Trends → We built this application with Backbone.js and the Backbone Boilerplate on top of the new AngelList REST data API. We used Jake and Capistrano for […]
Continue ReadingStartup Data Trends - Jan 10 2012
Introducing The Backbone Boilerplate
Over the past year Bocoup has worked on several production applications that utilize the MVC library Backbone.js. We’ve worked hard to give back to the community through informative blog posts, core contributions, support & evangelism through various mediums such as meetups, IRC and Twitter. Over the course of the past year, we created small boilerplates […]
Continue ReadingIntroducing The Backbone Boilerplate - Dec 22 2011
Backbone Live Collections
Updated on August 20th, 2015 – This blog post was originally written to use the Twitter public API. That API has since changed to not allow unauthenticated queries. We’ve updated this post to utilize the GitHub API instead which still allows a minimal amount of unauthenticated queries (60 an hour.) The linked jsFiddles have been […]
Continue ReadingBackbone Live Collections - Oct 28 2011
Bocoup Gamelab
We are excited to announce the Bocoup Gamelab, a new partnership between Bocoup and Atlas Venture to fund new open web games companies. At Bocoup, we feel that the success of HTML5 and the Open Web Platform hinges on crossing over to consumer technology. Our work on Popcorn.js has contributed to this end with consumer […]
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- Oct 11 2011
Welcome Greg Smith
We are excited to welcome Greg Smith to the Bocoup team. Greg brings with him a wealth of experience in web development and software R&D which he is now bringing to the open web. He’re currently developing a Kickstarter-funded large-scale HTML5 RPG, and likes to build & release small tools like http://jsregex.com. He’s interested in games, game […]
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- Oct 06 2011
Organizing Your Backbone.js Application With Modules
If you have spent any time looking at Backbone.js, like many others, you are probably amazed by how lightweight, flexible and elegant it is. Backbone.js is incredibly powerful, but not prescriptive in how it should be used. With great power comes great responsibility, and if you’ve tried to use Backbone.js for a large project you […]
Continue ReadingOrganizing Your Backbone.js Application With Modules - Sep 28 2011
Welcome Dan Heberden!
We are happy to announce that Dan Heberden will be joining the Bocoup team to work on JavaScript development, training, and contributing to open software. Dan comes to Bocoup from his own consulting business to strengthen our powerhouse team of JavaScript programmers. Most recently, Dan’s spoken at the Bay Area jQuery Conference, and Amazon’s Developer Days […]
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