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- Jan 14 2013
Realtime Node.js App: Building a Server
This post is the third in a three-part series describing our investigations into scalability for a second screen application we built for PBS. You can read the series introduction here. Being familiar with the stress testing procedure is all well-and-good, but that knowledge won’t really help you unless you have a server to test. In […]
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Realtime Node.js App: Building a Server
- Jan 03 2013
Realtime Node.js App: Stress Testing Procedure
This post is the second in a three-part series describing our investigations into scalability for a second screen application we built for PBS. You can read the introduction here. This guide assumes you have a production server up and running. If you need help getting there, check out the final post in the series for […]
Continue ReadingRealtime Node.js App: Stress Testing Procedure - Dec 18 2012
Realtime Node.js App: A Stress Testing Story
This post is the first in a three-part series describing our investigations into scalability for a second screen application we built with PBS. You can read more about the project in the series introduction here. Some Background We built the Map Center second-screen application in Node.js with the help of a number of open-source libraries. […]
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Bocoup & PBS: Building and Scaling a Realtime Node.js Application
This summer, Bocoup worked with Mozilla and PBS to build an open source, real-time web application for the 2012 US Presidential election. When we began, PBS (specifically, the folks at News Hour) had already completed a client-side application called “Map Center“. Map Center enabled users to view US demographic data and experiment with electoral college […]
Continue ReadingBocoup & PBS: Building and Scaling a Realtime Node.js Application - Nov 28 2012
Announcing: OpenVis Conf
Many people are inspired by the fantastic data visualizations published on the Open Web every day, but the practice of creating these engaging pieces is often shrouded in mystery. The first OpenVis Conf — set for May 16-17 in Boston — aims to change that, with two days of talks focused entirely on the process […]
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- Nov 20 2012
Introducing Bocoup Screencasts
Many of us here at Bocoup spend a lot of our time helping others get better at JavaScript and working with open web technologies, from Adam Sontag working with folks to solve their problems in the #jquery IRC channel, to Ben Alman working out the perfect way to explain an IIFE, to Greg Smith guiding […]
Continue ReadingIntroducing Bocoup Screencasts - Oct 15 2012
Roost – A JavaScript Training Conference from Bocoup
One of the most important ways we accomplish our mission to move the Open Web forward is through helping and training web developers. To this end, we’re working to make open web education as accessible as possible via resources such as jqfundamentals.com, our public classes and workshops, and the Essentials Tours we’re bringing to cities […]
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Bocoup on Air: Developing for the Mobile Web
We had so much fun with our first Bocoup on Air hangout that we decided to do it again. This time, I chatted with Boaz Sender about a mobile web app he’s been working on, and about the future of the web as an application development platform. Most of our conversation was spent on a […]
Continue ReadingBocoup on Air: Developing for the Mobile Web - Sep 12 2012
Bocoup on Air: Making Robots with JavaScript
In case you missed it, Rick Waldron and I got together recently to talk about Johnny Five, a library that lets you control an Arduino using JavaScript. Rick showed off some of his Johnny Five creations — including a dancing robot — and I got to geek out a bit more about shift registers and […]
Continue ReadingBocoup on Air: Making Robots with JavaScript - Sep 10 2012
Reviving jQuery Fundamentals
It was more than two years ago now that I first published jQuery Fundamentals, a free online jQuery learning resource. Since then, the site has seen hundreds of thousands of visits — if you’ve learned jQuery in the last two years, chances are decent that you’ve landed on the page at least once or twice. […]
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