Watch concerts from Bendyworks' downtown office and support local non-profits

We're thrilled to announce that the League of American Bicyclists awarded us the Gold level as a Bicycle Friendly Business!

Setting up and using Elm in Rails 5.1 is simple with the Webpacker gem

Explore why the Maybe Monad is useful, but perhaps not in Ruby.

Widen interviewed Bendyworks CEO Brad Grzesiak on how to maintain a connected workplace

Leverage immutability and functional programming for the front end with Elm!

Our best practices for running meetings efficiently and effectively.

Rails enum is useful but dangerous; here's how to wield it properly.

Learn how to wrap a Linux-based C API with Swift, featuring glob

We're releasing Caravan, a sample implementation of a version-enforced API server.

Using Ember.js with SOAP

<p>We’ve been playing around with <a href="http://emberjs.com">Ember</a> since before it was extracted from <a href="http://sproutcore.com">SproutCore</a>, and it wasn’t until recently that we got this unusual request from one of our clients: “Can you embed an Ember app in an external page like you would Google Analytics...</p>

<p>Four inches per minute. Two hundred forty miles per seven years. One and a half millimeters per second. Even without something to compare to, most would consider this an inordinately slow pace. And yet this is the average velocity of an engineering...</p>

<p>For a while now, Bendyworks has offered its employees an annual budget of $1,000 for attending conferences. Travel, lodging, tickets… if it relates to attending a conference, we’ve got our team covered. And if a Bendyworker is speaking at the conference...</p>

<p>Since Swift was announced less than one week ago, we as a community can’t reasonably expect syntax rules to be pulled into popular highlighting libraries like <a href="http://pygments.org" title="Pygments">Pygments</a> yet (though it’s certainly already in the works). You’ll notice in our most recent...</p>

<p>Swift, being all the rage these last four days, has definitely livened up our programming chat room quite a bit. With cautious optimism, we (Betsy and Brad) delved into the Xcode beta, curious about the state of testing with Swift. For the purposes...</p>

View Controllers in iOS: we need to talk. You are—without a shadow of a doubt—the worst offender of the Single Responsibility Principle, and that needs to stop.

<p>In response to a <a href="https://github.com/bendyworks/bwoken/pull/21">great discussion</a> in the bwoken issues forum, I’m happy to announce the first beta of bwoken version 2! The major change, which justified the major version bump, is that bwoken is no longer invoked with <code>rake</code> but instead with <code>bwoken</code></p>

<p>Imagine yourself at a concert on the streets of Madison, a block away from the Wisconsin State Capitol (known for, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Capitol">among</a> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-wisconsin-protests-idUSTRE72B2AN20110312">other</a> <a href="http://www.thedailypage.com/video/article.php?article=40496">things</a>, being the largest granite dome in the world), listening to <a href="http://www.willyporter.com/">Willy Porter</a>, and waiting for the headliner—<a href="http://www.erichutchinson.com/">Eric Hutchinson</a></p>

<p>When you’re pitched a four dimensional water bottle, a baby’s first mace, or completely opaque windshields, you might want to stop and wonder how you found yourself in that position. While this isn’t exactly a common situation at Bendyworks, it certainly...</p>

<p>Last weekend, three Bendyworkers and a Swink-person (Swink-ee?) participated in the <a href="http://railsrumble.com/">Rails Rumble</a>, a competition to build a web application in just 48 hours. Rather than hacking on the backend like I usually do, I ended up almost exclusively forging...</p>

<p>Version 1.1 of Bwoken has just been released! This feature release includes the ability to run UIAutomation tests on a device rather than the simulator, in addition to a number of internal improvements to Bwoken.</p> <p>Developers we come across have always...</p>

<p>Bwoken is a UIAutomation test runner for both iPhone and iPad, which lets you write your tests in CoffeeScript, then run them in bulk from the command line. Watch the video, then head on over to its <a href="http://bendyworks.github.com/bwoken">homepage!</a></p>

<p>Yesterday, at the request of their teacher <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~suman/">Suman Banerjee</a>, I presented a view of what it’s like to be a professional programmer to a class of Computer Sciences students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The focus of the talk was “Mobile &amp; Professionalism...</p>

We're proud to be a platinum sponsor of the Travis CI effort.

<p><strong>Note:</strong> This article was cross-posted from Brad’s personal blog: <a href="http://www.namingthingsishard.com/2012/01/31/concisekit.html">Naming Things is Hard</a></p> <p>Over the last month at Bendyworks, I’ve been pairing with <a href="http://twitter.com/JaymesWaters">Jaymes</a> on our latest initiative: adding iOS development to our repertoire. As a Ruby developer learning...</p>

Tiggering Pusher events from automation code.

A Twitter app written to help experience live events in a new way.

Using HTML5 shiv libraries

Over 48 hours we built an app for Rails Rumble.

Some tips for managing gems on Heroku.

Do two things to help with gems on Heroku.

Our presentations.