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- Aug 26 2010
JavaScript: Creating an EventSource within a Worker
After spending the day finishing out cross-browser EventSource support in the form of jQuery.EventSource.js, then wrapping up with a commit of 55 new unit tests, I finally left the Bocoup Loft for the day around 8 o’clock… But as most developers know, no matter how hard you try, you just can’t leave this kind of […]
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JavaScript: Creating an EventSource within a Worker - Aug 25 2010
JavaScript: YakYakFace.com uses jQuery.EventSource
For those of you curious about what can be created or where to use the new JavaScript EventSource API (also known as “Server Sent Events” ) – I’ve developed a very basic chat application that uses jQuery.EventSource.js to provide a simple API to native EventSource where available (and a fallback when not) and Twitter @anywhere […]
Continue ReadingJavaScript: YakYakFace.com uses jQuery.EventSource - Aug 24 2010
10K Event Apart Submission: Pictocalypse 10k
Here we are, in the 11th Hour of submission for the 10K Event Apart contest. I just submitted my application, which weighs in at a grand total of 3991 Bytes… or it did, but after I submitted it I was still able to shave off a few more bytes, for a final total of 3676Bytes […]
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- Aug 24 2010
Welcome “Cowboy” Ben Alman
We are very excited to welcome “Cowboy” Ben Alman to the Bocoup team. Ben has nasty JavaScript skills and is a prolific jQuery Plugin developer, with over 30 plugins and a handful of jQuery core contributions under his belt. Ben’s extensive writings and documentation over at benalman.com are impressive to say the least. He has […]
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- Aug 17 2010
Webkit Radial Gradients
I started to play around with the inset value of the CSS3 box-shadow property over at boaz.se/nder/s.miscellaneous/i-<3-inset after maxvoltar posted about it. I started working with the CSS3 gradient property to achieve the effect reproduced here, and I ran into some serious syntax confusion. Whereas Gecko offers a terse verbose syntax for radial gradients, Webkit […]
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- Aug 16 2010
Welcome Pete Karl
We are excited to welcome Pete Karl to the Bocoup team. Pete is a great programmer, and brings with him to Bocoup strong experience in systems architecture and a general hackerism that we value here. Pete’s awesome work at Lion Burger shows an enthusiasm and talent for developing and launching great products, and a strong […]
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- Aug 10 2010
jQuery Twitter Search Feed
I wrote a dead simple twitter search API implementation with jQuery for bocoup.com yesterday. Everything is explained in the comments. Hopefully this script helps you implement your own twitter feed. You can see the live demo running off to the right. jQuery.twitterFeed.js $(function(){ // Get the JSON of your twitter search, it helps to format […]
Continue ReadingjQuery Twitter Search Feed - Jul 15 2010
Javascript Typed Arrays: Method Support
Al MacDonald recently posted http://stage1.bocoup.com/blog/javascript-typed-arrays – which is an interesting look at the benchmarkable speed differences between FireFox 4’s Float32Array constructor and the traditional Array constructor. As expected, the Typed Arrays are definitively faster due entirely to native optimization: they only allow integer or floating point numbers (respectively to their Int or Float prefix); additionally […]
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- Jul 15 2010
Record Terminal Output to .txt File
Today I came across that annoying situation where you build something that throws an error, but the build process spits out so much text to your terminal, that the error is lost. The terminal can only hold so-much text in memory. So what to do? Record the terminal output to a text file: ls> output.txt […]
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- Jul 14 2010
JavaScript Typed Arrays
You probably know by now that JavaScript is getting a lot of upgrades at the moment. One of the upgrades that WebGL is bringing along for the ride is JavaScript Typed Arrays. A JavaScript Typed Array is very quick! It exists as a fixed block of memory that can be accessed with JavaScript, where as […]
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