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AngularJS and Rails Donuts
Interested in mocking up a modern-looking interface to some data? Using AngularJS to interact with an existing Rails project makes it easy to go from a plain old CRUD app to a modern, surprisingly...
View ArticleUsing Linux C APIs in Swift: Glob
With Apple’s announcement that Swift is coming to Linux, it’s time to think about how Swift can be leveraged as a system language rather than simply an app language. In order to function as a systems...
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Elm for the Frontend, Right Now
The Ruby Rogues recently did a podcast (#212) about the Elm programming language. Go feast your ears on it right now; this post builds upon the episode. I also want you to listen to it because the...
View ArticleRails Enum is a Sharp Knife
When we say something “is a sharp knife,” we mean that it is eminently valuable if used correctly, and exceptionally hazardous when wielded incorrectly or without effective training. It’s similar to...
View ArticleA tale of two selectors in HTML and CSS
In the course of normal web development we’re used to encountering weird quirks of various browsers, but this one left us flabbergasted. The root of the problem was using document.querySelectors for...
View ArticleMeetings and You
Chris Wilson sent out a short missive back when he was a Bendyworker titled “Meetings and You.” In it, he offers a “refresher on Meetings 101.” In the interest of improving meetings everywhere, here it...
View ArticleLeveling up Clojure’s Hash Maps
TLDR: We implemented the Lean Hash-Array Mapped Trie (HAMT) in ClojureScript (see here: https://github.com/bendyworks/lean-map) and have seen performance improvements of 2x in iteration, 2 – 4x in...
View ArticleParallelizing HTTP requests in Clojure
We’ve been working our way through Clojure for the Brave and True and enjoyed solving Exercise 2 from Chapter 10 so much that we’d like to share our solution with you! The problem For context, the...
View ArticleAugust Bendynews!
It seems like Bendyworkers are always out and about doing amazing things in the Madison community and beyond. I thought I’d start sharing what we’re up to and where we’ve been. It’s exciting stuff!...
View ArticleThe Bendyworks Conference Roadshow
The fall is always a busy time of year. Visiting family, pressing cider, eating pie. Here at Bendyworks we are rapidly rolling into full conference season. Check out these presentations coming to...
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