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- Nov 18 2015
Welcome, Francis Gulotta!
We’re servo-ing up some great news today: our coop is embiggened once again, with Francis Gulotta joining Bocoup as Director of Web Connected Devices. A lifelong New Yorker, Francis has spent his life immersed in building technology. He’s consulted for small businesses, schools, and startups on his own and at his agency, Wizard Development, served […]
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- Oct 23 2015
Carry On, Wayward Branyen!
Today we share the news that Tim Branyen has left Bocoup to watch join Netflix. While at Bocoup this time, Tim contributed important work to the Open Web, including NodeGit, the DOM diffing library diffhtml, and the templating engine combyne. We are excited to continue to help support and grow these innovative projects, and can’t […]
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- Sep 29 2015
Needles, Haystacks, and the Canvas API
Rendering and animating a lot of objects while maintaining the interactivity we want to deliver is one challenge we sometimes face as creators of data visualizations. Dominikus Baur explores the axis of performance vs. developer pain in his OpenVis 2015 talk. In summary, higher level APIs such as the DOM and SVG offer a rich […]
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- Sep 28 2015
Mapping the Conflict in Syria – a Design Process (Part 1 of 2)
We’ve been very lucky this last month to join the excellent journalists and editors at GlobalPost on their journey to document the conflict in the Middle East. Several months ago, GlobalPost reached out to us for help with several new long narratives they had in the works. The first narrative, which focuses on the state […]
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- Sep 15 2015
Introducing the Moebio Framework
The Bocoup Data Visualization Team is excited to announce the first public release of the Moebio Framework in collaboration with Santiago Ortiz and Moebio Labs. The Moebio Framework is a JavaScript Toolkit for analyzing and visualizing data in the browser. At the core of this JavaScript framework is a set of data types and functions […]
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- Aug 13 2015
A Git Workflow Walkthrough – Merging Pull Requests
We are in the homestretch with our git workflow walkthrough. I knew we could do it! Last time, we looked at a few ways to review pull requests. In this final (for now!) installment, we will merge our reviewed changes back into master. Once your pull request reviewer is satisfied with the changes, you’ll get […]
Continue ReadingA Git Workflow Walkthrough – Merging Pull Requests - Aug 04 2015
Announcing Voyager, a Knight Foundation Prototype Grant Project
We’re excited to announce the Voyager project as one of 22 recipients of a Knight Foundation Prototype Grant. The grant is designed specifically to support early-stage explorations in media and information aligned with Knight Foundation’s mission to support “transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts.” The goal […]
Continue ReadingAnnouncing Voyager, a Knight Foundation Prototype Grant Project - Aug 03 2015
A Git Workflow Walkthrough – Reviewing Pull Requests Locally
In many cases, a visual check of the changes via the PR page on GitHub is enough to give a +1 to changes. That’s how we did things in our previous walkthrough post. But sometimes, you want to try things out locally downloaded to your own machine to get a feel for what is really […]
Continue ReadingA Git Workflow Walkthrough – Reviewing Pull Requests Locally - Jul 29 2015
Sponsoring Diversity Scholarships for BrazilJS
At Bocoup, we believe scholarships are an actionable way to promote a more diverse tech community and to provide direct support for under-represented groups to participate in tech events. We began offering Diversity Scholarships this year to the events we organize such as OpenVisConf, CSSConf and TXJS. With this in mind, we went beyond North […]
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- Jul 29 2015
Promovendo bolsas pela diversidade no BrazilJS
Na Bocoup, nós acreditamos que bolsas de estudo são uma forma eficaz para promover uma comunidade de tecnologia mais diversa e prover suporte direto para grupos subrepresentados em seus eventos. Neste ano, começamos a oferecer bolsas de estudos pela diversidade – em inglês: Diversity Scholarships – nos eventos que organizamos, tais como OpenVisConf, CSSConf e […]
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