The Loft at 319 A Street is an open source hacker space located in the bocoup offices.

Upcoming Events

Pokin' Holes 50

This month Ben and Chris will be presenting their company Indie Ambassador at Pokin' Holes 50. Indie Ambassador provides a tool for musicians to manage their music careers. A panel of experienced entrepreneurs and members of the audience will provide candid feedback to the founders. Sign up here.

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Bizarro Dojo for jQuery Developers

Join the unscriptable John Hann in a bizarro world where progressive enhancement is a dirty word, where CSS2.1 selectors and inline-block work in IE6, and where crazy conventions have been established for common tasks like loose coupling, data modeling, dependency management, a11y, i18n and more. These are concepts that the jQuery user must deal with in the development of truly client centric web applications. John will show how Dojo deals with some of these concepts, and share his work on cujo.js, the forthcoming open source platform for building client-centric web apps. Sign up here.

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Mobile jQuery and jQTouch

Jonathan Stark, Mobile Javascript expert and maintainer of jQTouch, will talk about the mobile web development landscape and walk us through his mobile JavaScript Toolkit. Jonathan will crack open the jQTouch source to walk us through how it works and show us how he uses it to build super efficient mobile applications that look like native iPhone Apps. Sign up here.

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jQuery UI and the Widget Factory

Adam Sontag, member of the jQuery UI team, will walk us through jQuery UI Widget Development and pop open the widget factory on the big screen to show us how it works. In this talk Adam will examine the process of creating complex, stateful plugins, and how jQuery UI's Widget Factory can speed up and simplify the process of developing and using jQuery plugins. Sign up here.

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Learn CSS

Rob Larson will step through the basics of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) starting with the most fundamental concepts and finishing with concrete examples illustrating common patterns. This presentation will serve as a launching point for those new to CSS and will strengthen the understanding of the core principles for developer or designer more experienced with CSS. This talk will cover Design & Layout, Web Standards, Rich Visual Behaviors, CSS1, CSS2, CSS3, Frameworks, Abstractions, Dealing with cross browser support, Separation of style, content and behavior, and Testing. Sign up here.

Workshops/Training

jQuery Training

This workshop has passed. Contact us for details about future training.

Learn jQuery from Bocoup and Thoughtbot. By the end of this class you will know how to write test-driven JavaScript, write jQuery plugins, solve JS issues in the browser, and add fun effects to your Web site. It is intended for anyone who has experience with Web design or development who wants to expand their knowledge.

Sign up at Thoughbot Training.

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Past Events

Shrimptest A-B Testing Mitcho

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Mobile Javascript Multi-touch Event Models Jim Wilson

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Past Events

Pokin' Holes 49 DartBoston, Editing

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Building An HTML5 Video Player with SVG Controls Philippe Le Hegaret

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jQuery Plugin Development Ben Alman

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Pokin' Holes 47 DartBoston, Peekaboo Mobile

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Managing State With DOM Storage Ryan Westphal

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Front End Performance for the Common Man Rob Larsen

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The Future of Web Audio Al MacDonald

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Web Workers Demystified Rick Waldron

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Pokin' Holes 46 DartBoston, Amit Chatterjee, Dark Screen Studios

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Webfonts Overview - Paul Irish

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Processing.JS Panel 2010 - Ben Fry, John Resig, Chris Blizzard, David Humphrey, Corban Brook

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10 Things I Learned from the jQuery Source - Paul Irish

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MGFest Barcamp - Mason Dixon

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PHP Security - Will Bond

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UI Mechanics with PJS - Al MacDonald

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Advanced jQuery Techniques - John Resig

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