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In December WordPress 4.7 shipped with a built-in REST API, giving every WordPress site out-of-the-box REST endpoints for the core WordPress data types such as posts, comments and categories. This release is the culmination of almost four years of work by a globally-distributed contributor team, and I’m proud to say that here at Bocoup we’ve […]

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Three Years with the WordPress REST API

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• open source,
• web applications,
• wordpress

The following is a transcript of a talk given at various events throughout 2015, including Bocoup’s own TXJS and Boston JS. Transcript My name is Mat Marquis, of Marquis Home Renovation. I don’t care about websites. I’m a carpenter. That, you’ll notice, is why my slide deck looks like the side of the most badass […]

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Smaller, Faster Websites

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• performance,
• responsive web design

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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Using SVG Patterns as Fills

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• data visualization,
• design,
• tutorial

I gave a talk in February on Advanced jQuery Templates that had an interesting and unique twist. Instead of changing slides using traditional presentation delivery methods such as a clicker or a laptop keyboard, I used my smartphone which made asynchronous calls to a Node.js server. The server then propagated events to all connected viewers, regardless of […]

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Synchronizing HTML5 Slides with Node.js

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• client side,
• tutorial

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

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• html5,
• video

The Facebook Thing Facebook has had a lot of press recently. Growing by a million users a day, playing the patent game like every other large corporation, seemingly constant legal-disputes over ownership, and to top it off.. the Facebook movie called “The Social Network” will be hitting the big-screen this October. A lot of people […]

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Social Primitives for A Brave New Web

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• web applications

Popcorn.js, which I wrote about recently, is an infant javascript library that allows film makers to better showcase their videos on the web using html5’s video element. Using popcorn, directors can incorporating social media and integrate several features such as subtitles and credits that may be beneficial in the context of the web. Although typically, […]

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Popcorn.js Walkthrough

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• client side,
• tools and workflow,
• tutorial,
• web applications

…Not natively… but this will work in the meantime: Git it here firefox-event-source.js ;(function (w) { if ( !w[‘EventSource’] ) { // parseUri 1.2.2 // (c) Steven Levithan <stevenlevithan.com> // MIT License var parseUri = function(str) { var o = { key: [‘source’,’protocol’,’authority’,’userInfo’,’user’,’password’,’host’,’port’,’relative’,’path’,’directory’,’file’,’query’,’anchor’], q: { name: ‘queryKey’, parser: /(?:^|&amp;)([^&amp;=]*)=?([^&amp;]*)/g }, parser: { strict: /^(?:([^:\/?#]+):)?(?:\/\/((?:(([^:@]*)(?::([^:@]*))?)?@)?([^:\/?#]*)(?::(\d*))?))?((((?:[^?#\/]*\/)*)([^?#]*))(?:\?([^#]*))?(?:#(.*))?)/ } […]

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JavaScript EventSource: Now available in Firefox!

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• performance,
• tools and workflow

This is long overdue. Also, it should serve as a context for my slides from jQuery Conference, San Francisco 2010 (use the up and down arrow keys to navigate). Whether or not you’ve read the WHATWG Web Worker spec and are looking for more information about Javascript multi threading OR you already have a rudimentary […]

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Javascript Web Workers: From Basics to jQuery.Hive

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• performance,
• tools and workflow,
• tutorial,
• web applications,
• web standards

I have been playing around with SVG Filters a lot over the last few weeks and I have to say that the SVG Filters are a) really freekin’ cool and b) powerful in ways yet undiscovered. When these things land cross-browser, it will really polish off the modern web-app paradigm, adding a level of depth […]

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CSS SVG-Filters Elem.style & xlink:href=”url(#id)” #fail

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• design,
• performance