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We are excited to welcome Mike Pennisi to Bocoup. Mike brings with him enormous exuberance and creativity, and heavy experience working with HTML5 Video and Chrome Extensions for companies like Vodafone. Mike is eager to work on all things JavaScript, gaming, video, machine learning, civic software and open content. Mike is also excited to start […]

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Welcome Mike Pennisi

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We are excited to announce that Darius Kazemi has joined our team to focus full time on HTML5 game development and evangelism. Darius brings a career of experience building and analyzing internet games. We are committed to helping open web technology succeed at Bocoup, but to date, we have focused on building software for startups […]

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Welcome Darius Kazemi

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I am excited to announce a new Bocoup retail training today “HTML5 For Programmers“, based on a training I’ve delivered to hundreds of web developers at some big companies over the last 6 months. The training will run at Bocoup for 3 Days from June 1st – 3rd. I designed this training to include both […]

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Training: HTML5 For Programmers

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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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Welcome Richard Worth

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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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Storing PHP Sessions in CouchDB

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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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Welcome Sam Bisbee

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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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Training: Bocoup goes to Portland

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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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No Comply – Firefox 4 Demo

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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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JavaScript Rotoscoping Tool

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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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List Conflicted files with Git

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