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- Dec 06 2010
Popcorn.js 0.2 Facelift
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 […]
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Popcorn.js 0.2 Facelift - Nov 23 2010
JavaScript: jQuery Bug Fixing Guide
This article describes processes and policies that are no longer in use. It’s preserved in its entirety for historic record only. If you’ve ever been interested in contributing to jQuery, but simply had no idea how to get started, I’ve created the following jQuery Bug Fixing Guide to walk through the steps of fixing bugs […]
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- Nov 15 2010
Newsweek Career Tree Visualization with RaphaelJS and Burst
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 […]
Continue ReadingNewsweek Career Tree Visualization with RaphaelJS and Burst - Nov 04 2010
Build your own “Mini Wayback Machine”
The “Wayback Machine” is one of the more important services in the history of the Internet (and happens to be named after a great gag on the old Rocky & Bullwinkle show). From about 2001 through 2005 it could be counted on it to give you a reasonable snapshot of many of the home pages […]
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- web applications
- Oct 19 2010
JavaScript: indexedDB in Chromium 8.0.552.5 dev!
UPDATE!!! This morning (2010-10-22) Chromium dev channel updated to Chromium 8.0.552.11 dev and the indexedDB implementation has been renamed to webkitIndexedDB. I must admit – sometimes browser updates are like Christmas. Like today. I updated Chrome and as usual I went through the motions of inspecting the window (DOMWindow) object in the console looking for […]
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Taking a Peek at Google’s New In-Page Analytics
Last friday Google publicly announced a new way to view traffic on your web site; by using the web site itself. This is a replacement for the clumsy Site Overlay feature that has existed since the Urchin analytics system was absorbed by the software giant. It looks like a great way to visualize the traffic […]
Continue ReadingTaking a Peek at Google’s New In-Page Analytics - Oct 19 2010
JavaScript: EventSource Support Updated in Opera 10.70
The Official Opera Blog has announced that Opera 10.70 will feature a reimplementation of the EventSource API. I say “reimplementation” because Opera was actually the first modern browser to add support for Server Sent Events back in 2006. The implementation was awkward and required a DOM element. Last week, Opera Core Concerns posted an update […]
Continue ReadingJavaScript: EventSource Support Updated in Opera 10.70 - Oct 14 2010
Giving jQuery UI another chance (and really liking it)
I feel like I've given jQuery UI a bad rap. I passed judgement too fast. At first glance, it was a pile of rigid prefab user interface objects generated by jQuery being peddled as 'official'. I know now that it's much more. jQuery UI is not (just) about a fancy accordion slider. It's a framework […]
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- Oct 07 2010
Terminal: Hardware Specs to .HTML File
Interactive data visualization falls apart pretty quickly if the machine’s specs are not up to par. The last thing you want is your visualization to be slow and clunky. So when planning the graceful degradation of a visualization across a variety of systems, it is important to put some careful thought into testing things such […]
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- Sep 22 2010
JavaScript: jQuery RegEx Review
This was too good to not repost… If you have any interest at all in JavaScript performance optimization, then this publication by Jeff Roberson will be of great interest. In this article Jeff dissects RegEx’s found in jQuery and provides insight as well as suggestions to improve them either in performance or syntax. Each example […]
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