OMG! Rails Rumble!
Last weekend, three Bendyworkers and a Swink-person (Swink-ee?) participated in the Rails Rumble, a competition to build a web application…
Moldover: Godfather of Controllerists
Last night I was able to attend a workshop at Madison Media Institute featuring Moldover and his crazy custom mixers and modified…
Cthulhuian Document Preparation With Troff
tl;dr: If you are looking for a lightweight document preparation system in the style of LaTeX, try out which is probably already on your…
Don't Say 'Emacs' or 'Vi'
A brief tour of some other editors Quick, think of your favorite . If you're anything like me or the people I work with, you've got a horse…
Version Control for Poetic Time Travelers
Matthew McCullough (@matthewmccull) leads Git workshops across the world. He recently visited Madison, Wisconsin to discuss and demonstrate…
Your Papers, Please
Sometimes a line of discussion will open up into areas of unexpected intensity. Suddenly people are vehement and they won't let go. When…
RailsBridge: a Difference That Makes A Difference
So, there's this conference in town this week. It’s going to be damned good: attend if you can. One of the most remarkable parts of it is…
The Hidden Life of Stylesheet Preprocessing
Like any piece of art, a stylesheet should be indivisible and bold, but natural. It should arrive to the browser in one elegant file, a…
Growth day happenings – Friday the 13th
(This is the first of a recurring series describing our work during most, if not all, growth days at Bendyworks. Note that we won't do…
Don't Play CSS Tetris
"Want to see the future? Dale Sande (@anotheruiguy) leaned toward me with a conspiratorial gleam in his eye. His laptop was crowded with…