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- Feb 27 2012
Ringmark Launch
This morning, at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor announced Ringmark, the mobile web test suite that we’ve been working on with Facebook. At Bocoup, our mission is to further the evolution of the Open Web. That’s why we’ve gotten behind Ringmark with our JavaScript expertise. Ringmark comprehensively tests the […]
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Ringmark Launch - Feb 07 2012
Easily Test jQuery Pre-Release Versions
Get the complete code on github. It’s always exciting when a new major jQuery version (x.x.0) full of bug fixes, new features and performance improvements is released. But that fresh, out of the box excitement can get replaced with anxiety if you find bugs or performance issues with the latest version. This post will cover […]
Continue ReadingEasily Test jQuery Pre-Release Versions - Jan 18 2012
Startup Data Trends
We are excited to announce a new web application for exploring AngelList Data that we’ve been working on with our friends at Atlas Venture and AngelList: Startup Data Trends → We built this application with Backbone.js and the Backbone Boilerplate on top of the new AngelList REST data API. We used Jake and Capistrano for […]
Continue ReadingStartup Data Trends - Jan 10 2012
Introducing The Backbone Boilerplate
Over the past year Bocoup has worked on several production applications that utilize the MVC library Backbone.js. We’ve worked hard to give back to the community through informative blog posts, core contributions, support & evangelism through various mediums such as meetups, IRC and Twitter. Over the course of the past year, we created small boilerplates […]
Continue ReadingIntroducing The Backbone Boilerplate - Dec 22 2011
Backbone Live Collections
Updated on August 20th, 2015 – This blog post was originally written to use the Twitter public API. That API has since changed to not allow unauthenticated queries. We’ve updated this post to utilize the GitHub API instead which still allows a minimal amount of unauthenticated queries (60 an hour.) The linked jsFiddles have been […]
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Organizing Your Backbone.js Application With Modules
If you have spent any time looking at Backbone.js, like many others, you are probably amazed by how lightweight, flexible and elegant it is. Backbone.js is incredibly powerful, but not prescriptive in how it should be used. With great power comes great responsibility, and if you’ve tried to use Backbone.js for a large project you […]
Continue ReadingOrganizing Your Backbone.js Application With Modules - Sep 02 2011
HTML5 Video: Synchronizing Playback of Two Videos
Upon first thought, you might think that synchronized playback of two video elements would be simple – however – because the timeupdate event of the video element is indeterminate beyond its specification description of “Every 15 to 250ms, or whenever the MediaController’s media controller position changes”, this is actually non-trivial. Today, on the Web Made […]
Continue ReadingHTML5 Video: Synchronizing Playback of Two Videos - Aug 30 2011
Problem with DigiNotar SSL Certificates
While executing the all too familiar morning routine of a geek today – coffee, various news feeds, and mailing lists – I came across a disturbing bit of news. It turns out that DigiNotar, an SSL certificate issuer in the Netherlands (think VeriSign but less reputable), issued a wildcard SSL certificate for Google domains (*.google.com) […]
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- Aug 26 2011
Fieldrunners: Playing to the Strengths of HTML5 Audio and Web Audio
Bocoup is excited to be working with Gradient Studios to port the hit mobile game Fieldrunners, by Subatomic Studios, to HTML5. This is the third in a series of weekly development blog posts. This week, we focused on incorporating sound into the Fieldrunners port. Lucky for us, in-browser audio support has come a long way […]
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- Aug 25 2011
New Training: Building Web Applications with Backbone.js
For more than a year, people have been asking us how they can better organize their JavaScript application code. And for more than a year, we’ve been working on an answer to this question. At Bocoup, we’ve realized that modern client-side web applications present complexities previously only seen in server-side development. Maintaining separation between data […]
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