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- Sep 23 2014
Welcome Jasmin Jata
Bocoup has grown by +1 yet again – we’re thrilled to announce that Jasmin Jata has joined our team as Finance Director! Jasmin joins us most recently from GNS Healthcare and Advance Practice Strategies, where she helped establish strong financial best-practices at those growing young companies. At Bocoup, Jasmin will be fortifying business processes and […]
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- Aug 29 2014
Why hourly time tracking doesn’t work for software
Software developers never want to do hourly time tracking. I’ve seen team leads who fill out the time tracking for their whole team to spare them the trouble. I’ve seen developers agonize over what to write down: they feel like they’re estimating even when it should be a simple matter of hours. Why is it […]
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- Aug 28 2014
The Bocoup Open Device Lab
I’ve always been a huge proponent of building sites that work everywhere — any user, any browser, any device, any context. Websites work everywhere by default, and they stay that way so long as we know how not to break them. That’s what the Open Web means to me: ensuring that entire populations just setting […]
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- performance,
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- Aug 18 2014
Bem-vindo Leo Balter
Here at Bocoup, we believe in keeping the world wide in world wide web, so we’re really excited to announce the first international addition to our coop: Leo Balter! Leo will be working from his home base in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he’s been involved in open source software communities for quite some time, […]
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- Aug 13 2014
Welcome Mat Marquis
Anytime someone joins the team here at Bocoup, it’s a marquee addition. In this case, it’s also a Marquis addition – Mat Marquis! Mat, or “Wilto” as he’s known around quadrants of the internet and real life, is a native Bostonian who joins us from Filament Group, where he’s contributed to such worthy endeavors as […]
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- Aug 13 2014
JavaScript: A Digital Clock with Johnny-Five
The Johnny-Five Tutorial Series is geared towards Arduino programming on Node.js, using the Johnny-Five framework. Get caught up here. When I first started writing (copy and pasting) JavaScript in 1999, I focused solely on IE 5 (available on PC, Mac and UNIX; but I had no idea what it was truly capable of) and concerned […]
Continue ReadingJavaScript: A Digital Clock with Johnny-Five - Aug 05 2014
Designing an Exponentiation Operator for JavaScript
Update: This proposal now has two open bugs for implementation, on V8 and SpiderMonkey. https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3915 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135708 In this article, I’ll explore the process of adding syntax to a programming language by going through the process of designing a new JavaScript exponentiation operator, which I’ve submitted to TC39 for consideration in ES7. In many programming languages, […]
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- web standards
- Jul 24 2014
JSHint At Bocoup
I’m honored to have been named lead maintainer of JSHint. Following in Anton‘s footsteps, I’m excited to carry on his vision for the project and see it forward. In addition to overseeing regular maintenance of the project, my primary goal will be to prepare JSHint for ES6. Stewarding this work will be an exciting challenge, […]
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- Jul 22 2014
JavaScript: Current Detection and Measurement with Johnny-Five on Node.js
The Johnny-Five Tutorial Series is geared towards Arduino programming on Node.js, using the Johnny-Five framework. Get caught up here. In certain cases, it may be useful to know how much current is drawn from a specific load in a circuit. In this article, we’ll measure current draw, with and without a load. The load will […]
Continue ReadingJavaScript: Current Detection and Measurement with Johnny-Five on Node.js - Jul 21 2014
New Experiments in CSS Tooling
CSS is awful, but it doesn’t have to be that way. For example, new languages that compile to CSS like Stylus, Less, and Sass have made it much less painful to lay out and style web projects. However, these projects are limited: they provide delicious, delicious sugar, but ultimately they are using the same core […]
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