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- Mar 12 2015
Praticando as linguagens do novo mundo
Américo Vespúcio uma vez chamou a América de “Novo Mundo” quando ela ainda não era conhecida pelos nossos ancestrais. Essa é a mesma impressão que tive com a especificação do ES2015 (ECMA-262, 6th Ed.) e o novo panorama que ela traz. Tem várias coisas por vir e elas vão se manter apenas como exemplos até […]
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- Mar 09 2015
Welcome Earle Castledine
I’m happy to report a bit of news that’s making today a good day – nay, a g’day – here at Bocoup: Earle Castledine is our newest Open Web Engineer! Earle, perhaps better known to denizens of the internet by the moniker Mister Speaker, is a recent transplant from Australia, and he joins us from […]
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- Feb 19 2015
Summer 2015: Bocoup, CSSConf, TXJS, Roost, and You!
Even as unconscionable amounts of snow have bombarded the Bocoup Loft this winter, we’ve kept ourselves warm by keeping the sun in our hearts – and in our plans. Summer’s always more fun with friends, and that’s why we’re partnering with our colleagues Nicole Sullivan and Alex Sexton to bring you CSSConf US and TXJS […]
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- design,
- software development process,
- training
- Feb 18 2015
Stabilizing ECMAScript 2015 (ES6): Teaming up with TC39 and Google on Test262
August 14, 2015. Mark your calendars. That’s my next birthday. Another important date is June 18, 2015–it’s when the ECMA General Assembly will vote on and approve the 6th edition of Ecma-262 and usher in the next era of JavaScript. On that day, all those new language features we’ve been coveting/dreading will officially enter our […]
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- testing,
- web standards
- Feb 16 2015
Welcome Jim Vallandingham
With 2015 already 13% complete, it’s high time we announce the newest member of the Bocoup engineering team: Jim Vallandingham! Jim’s a veteran world traveler who’ll be joining our data visualization practice from Seattle, WA, where he lives with his wife and children. He comes to us from the Nordstrom Data Lab and The Stowers […]
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- Jan 09 2015
Bocoup’s Most Important (Empty) GitHub Repo
Bocoup loves GitHub. Our code lives there, we collaborate and code review using Pull Requests, and it makes deployment a breeze. For the last year, we’ve even started using GitHub to manage Bocoup. What? As Bocoup has grown, we’ve started using new tools to manage information internally. We wanted a company Wiki, but which one […]
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- Dec 19 2014
Using SVG Patterns as Fills
Back in the day, before color printers (or printers at all), people still had to make good data visualization. One way to do that was by using patterns instead of solid colors to indicate changes in scale or category. For example, take a look at this set of pie charts, using different patterns for different […]
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- Dec 19 2014
Customizing the RobotsConf Sumobot with Johnny-Five
In the first post in this series, I walked through inventory, preparation, calibration and assembly of the SumoBot Kit that was provided to all attendees of this year’s RobotsConf. From there, I showed how to control the bot with an Arduino Uno, Electric Imp and Spark Core. In this article, I’m going walk through two […]
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Controlling the RobotsConf Sumobot with Arduino Uno & Johnny-Five
In the previous article, I walked through inventory, preparation, calibration and assembly of the SumoBot Kit that was provided to all attendees of this year’s RobotsConf. In this article, I’m going introduce a simple program to for controlling the assembled SumoBot with an Arduino Uno. This entire article will assume that the you have already […]
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Controlling the RobotsConf Sumobot with Spark Core & Johnny-Five
In the previous article, I walked through inventory, preparation, calibration and assembly of the SumoBot Kit that was provided to all attendees of this year’s RobotsConf. In this article, I’m going introduce a simple program to for controlling the assembled SumoBot with a Spark Core. This entire article will assume that you have already read […]
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