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We have been deploying node apps to VPS and bare metal at Bocoup for almost 15 years, and with the growing number of full service hosting platforms, we thought this would be a good time to document how to do it yourself in 2024 for those of you who would still like to. We think […]

Push notifications are supported across major browsers, and with their recent addition to iOS last year, they are a compelling integration for the web. We recently built an installable web application with push notifications called Robert’s App (read the iOS install instructions to test it out). We built the application with remix.run and implemented notifications […]

Remix.run entered the mix of frameworks we’re using at Bocoup for a little over a year, and it’s been a huge lift in our velocity, enabling us to do things like offer free prototypes. We’re going to be posting a series of blog posts about parts of our workflow, and wanted to start with an […]

Three years ago we announced our work on the ARIA-AT program to develop an interoperability testing system for assistive technologies, starting with screen readers. Last year we completed a redesign of the ARIA Practices Guide (APG), which web developers use for guidance on making accessible websites and apps. We’ve been hard at work along the […]

Today, we are excited to announce our partnership with JoyLabz, which began in 2017 and has centered around the development of a new game console called GameBender. JoyLabz, developers of Makey Makey and Drawdio, and founded by former Lifelong Kindergarten researcher Jay Silver, has been an incredible partner. We are excited to finally share the […]

Today we’re launching Test262 Report to provide JavaScript developers with up-to-date information on the state of new and existing language features across implementations. Test262 Report is based on daily runs of Test262, the ECMA-262 (“ECMAScript” or “JavaScript”) test suite, in nightly builds of JavaScript engines, and visualizes at-a-glance status of feature implementation progress. Taking a […]

I’m excited to share that our technical partnerships team has developed a deeper focus on graphics and interactive application programming, a focus area which we are affectionately calling Gaia. As of today, Technical Partnerships is now Graphics and Interactive Applications (Gaia for short). In many ways this is a reflection of what this team has […]

We’re announcing some big changes to our teams and a new focus area for Bocoup. First, we have made the difficult decision to close our design and data visualization services in order to plant deeper roots as an open web engineering company. As a result, many of our teammates have moved on to pursue other […]

Starting today, my long time collaborator Jory Burson becomes Bocoup’s new CEO. I am moving into a Research Director role to explore long-term open and inclusive technology development at Bocoup. Jory and Boaz in front of the Bocoup billboard, Spring 2014. Jory joined our team in 2011 to run education, transitioned to general operations in […]

Four years ago, when Darius first came by Bocoup for some help writing Akihabara Engine documentation, we were all instantly drawn to his excitement for games and the web. A year later, when I called Darius and invited him to work at Bocoup, he was just as thrilled to join the family as we were […]

My dear friend Dan Heberden has left Bocoup to join another former Bocouper at Bazaarvoice. Dan and I met years ago through the jQuery community, and it has been an honor to build Bocoup along side him. I am excited to continue working with Dan as a member of Bocoup’s extended family and through the […]

Our friend, and one of my mentors, Richard Worth, has left Bocoup to join DonorDirect. During his time at Bocoup, Richard helped jump-start our training initiatives and developed two amazing Open Web engineering courses. Richard also contributed his organizational and leadership skills to start The jQuery Foundation at Bocoup, and to help Bocoup begin to […]

Se mon plaisir to welcome Tim Branyen back onto the team at Bocoup. Tim joined our team three years ago after he helped organize the first ever Boston jQuery Meetup at Bocoup. After two years moving the Open Web forward at Bocoup, Tim left Bocoup to work at a startup for a year, where he […]

Today, we’re saying goodbye to Rebecca Murphey. While we will miss her regular presence at Bocoup, we’re excited to continue working together on community projects as we have in the past. I met Rebecca four years ago when we were both green jQuery developers. I have learned so much from her over the years, and […]

Our good friend, and my longtime collaborator, Pete Karl, is leaving Bocoup. Pete was employee number five at Bocoup and over the past two plus years we have learned so much from him. From his earliest days shipping KLOCs to clients, he immediately started molding Bocoup into a more efficient software company, eventually moving on […]

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 […]

We are excited to announce that Isaac Durazo has joined Bocoup as the company’s first visual designer. Isaac will be developing and executing brands for the various Open Web technologies and conferences that we’ve been working on. At Bocoup, we know the impact that strong visual communication of concepts has on the viability of a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

We are happy to announce that Irene Ros will be joining our team to work on JavaScript visualizations, open web software and training. Irene comes to Bocoup from IBM, where she worked on the Lotus Notes team early in her career. Most recently Irene spent three years at IBM Research’s Visual Communication Lab where she […]

Google AuthSub follows a common oAuth style handshake flow. Unfortunately, it is not immediately clear how to implement this flow with the AuthSub GData JavaScript Library using their documentation examples or the library’s API. I recently implemented the flow for a Google Contacts viewer that we are working on here at Bocoup, and thought I […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I am very proud to announce that Popcorn.js hit 0.2 today. The Popcorn.js team has been working hard to deliver a stable, documented and unit tested JavaScript toolbelt for working with HTML5 <video>. Popcorn.js 0.2 rethinks Popcorn.js 0.1 as an event system for HTML5 <video> with an API, a plugin system, and strong adherence to […]

Update: I put this utility up at datauri.com for convenience. Update: The jQuery.event.props event property list has since been documented in the Event Object documentation. This past weekend, I made a handy utility for converting files to data URLs. This utility is part of a larger tool that we are developing for a client. I […]

Popcorn.js, the HTML5 <video> framework, is getting a facelift. Rick, Al and I spent last weekend working on Popcorn with Anna and Scott from the Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) at Seneca College on the forthcoming release of Popcorn JS. The History Bocoup’s own Nick Cammaratta attended a week long code sprint for […]

Today, Newsweek.com launched its brand new Career Tree Visualization tool (link now defunct, but check out this demo visualization of Barack Obama’s career), which was developed at Bocoup. Career Tree is a vector based RaphaelJS/Burst visualization of your career – you can activate it by connecting with your LinkedIn account or by filling out a […]

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 […]

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 […]

Use the code below to try out everything that I talk about in this post, and check out the live demo over on code.bocoup.com. modified-x-axis-intervals-and-labels.js //based on the source of http://g.raphaeljs.com/linechart.html var options = { axis: “0 0 1 1”, // Where to put the labels (trbl) axisxstep: 16 // How many x interval labels […]

We are exploring the possibility of developing a workshop to help high-school students solidify their knowledge of core mathematical concepts using a computer to write Javascript code. The best way for a student to demonstrate and reinforce knowledge of mathematical concepts is to be able to teach them or explain them to another person. We […]

Today, keyboard navigation went live on the new jQuery documentation site: api.jquery.com. Rick worked really hard on getting the interaction just right, and we think this makes using the documentation a faster and easier experience . We hope that this feature improves developers’ interaction with the documentation. We recently had the opportunity to work with […]

After a recent foreign top level domain registration binge aimed at some fun domain hacks, I got sick of spending money on foreign  TLDs, and started getting creative with subdomain hacks. TLD hacks are fun, but feel a little less natural to me, and certainly don’t tend to read as well; my eyes tend to stop at […]

Ever wonder how many files or lines of code are sitting in your project? Hop on the command line and run the following find commands in your bash Find the number of files in the current directory (runs recursively down into all subdirectories): find . | wc -l Find how many lines of code are […]

The path to httpd on redhat 9 is /etc/init.d/httpd You can run the following commands on it: /etc/init.d/httpd configtest /etc/init.d/httpd graceful /etc/init.d/httpd restart /etc/init.d/httpd stop /etc/init.d/httpd start I always run configtest before restarting to make sure I haven’t messed anything up.

Rick and I had a blast this weekend at the jQuery conference. We enjoyed the people, the talks, the typos, and the generally high caliber of developers in the jQuery Community. Our favorite typo was in the program. Rebecca Murphy‘s talk on Object Literals was misprinted as Object Laterals. So I grabbed objectlateral.com, and Rick […]