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- Apr 13 2011
Welcome Richard Worth
We are pleased to welcome Richard Worth to Bocoup. Richard brings 12 years of network software architecture and development experience to the team as well as a knack and passion for working with and evangelizing new HTML5 APIs. Richard is a member of the jQuery team and project lead for jQuery UI, where he has […]
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- Apr 08 2011
Storing PHP Sessions in CouchDB
One of the more common architectural tasks when designing a web based system that you expect to scale horizontally is deciding how to handle and store sessions. This is because each front end server is running its own PHP install and their session data is stored locally on the disk instead of being shared between […]
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- Apr 05 2011
Welcome Sam Bisbee
We are very excited to welcome Sam Bisbee to Bocoup. Sam is an active member of the CouchDB community, creator of Sag, the leading PHP bindings for CouchDB, and organizer of the Boston CouchDB user group. Sam joins us from Woopid, where he served as CTO. Sam brings great experience architecting and implementing complex systems […]
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- Mar 31 2011
Training: Bocoup goes to Portland
In case you haven’t heard, Bocoup has put together not one, but TWO full days of exciting JavaScript workshops in Portland, OR this May! On May 1, the day before JSConf, there will be four workshop tracks offered. And on May 4, the day before NodeConf (and after JSConf), there will be one workshop track […]
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- Mar 29 2011
No Comply – Firefox 4 Demo
No Comply – a WebGL, Audio-API Demo: click here to watch this demo. Over the past few months I have been working with Mozilla’s Audio API Team to create a WebGL/Audio API Demo for the release of Firefox 4. We wanted to create something a little different for this demo so we enlisted the help […]
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- Mar 29 2011
JavaScript Rotoscoping Tool
I had some free time on the train back up from Buttercamp this weekend, and got to work on a demo for a HTML5 rotoscoping tool that I’ve been kicking around in my head: View Live Demo (in Chrome) → The tool is very basic; it lets the user draw over each frame of the […]
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- Mar 18 2011
List Conflicted files with Git
When you pull from a remote repository, the number of new files listed can sometimes cause conflict messages to get scrolled off the screen. Not very convenient. You can use the following command to get a quick list of conflicts from Git: git ls-files -u
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- Mar 14 2011
JavaScript Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality: using JSARToolkit with WebGL & HTML5 Video Last week I spent some time running tests and generally familiarizing myself with the JSARToolkit code. I also built a JavaScript wrapper for the library to make it easier to use. JSARToolkit is a JavaScript library converted from FLARToolkit (Flash), and is developed for tracking AR […]
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- Mar 11 2011
Mayor Menino and VenCorps Announce Welcome Home Challenge Winner
It was an honor to have Mayor Menino and Mike Turillo from Vencorps at Bocoup yesterday to announce the winner of the Innovation District Welcome Home Challenge; My Life List. We were proud to have an opportunity to talk about Bocoup’s commitment to the innovation district, and to announce Boston Built a new website for Boston […]
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- Mar 09 2011
Bash Rename All Files in Dir
Something I have never known how to do in Linux, is rename a directory full of files. (Crazy right?!) Fortunately for a noob like msyelf, Sam Bisbee does know how to do this, and showed me today. In the following example, I am renaming a directory of files with no file-extension, and moving them to […]
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