As we get close to the end of the year, many of us at Bendyworks are considering what makes a holiday. Here's what we came up with.

A developer attends a data conference virtually.

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

Bendyworks developer Pearl Latteier is heading to We RISE Tech conference, an event dedicated to "growing and showcasing women in technology".

Bendyworks hosts students from a number of schools in Madison

Check out these presentations by Bendyworkers coming to events near you.

Check out these presentations by Bendyworkers coming to conferences near you.

Check out these presentations by Bendyworkers coming to conferences near you.

It’s been a busy couple of weeks; here’s what we’ve been up to!

Two Keynote tricks to eliminate laptop setup stress and look like a presentation pro.

August in Madison always brings a buzz of excitement for Madison+ Ruby. In just 10 days we will welcome members of the international Ruby community to our hometown (we’re honored!).

Madison+ Ruby has set a high bar for Ruby conferences ever since...

BendyConf 2014: "Tech Education for the Rest of Us" by Betsy Lorton from Bendyworks on Vimeo.

Dev Bootcamp is one of many programs to crop up  in the last few years offering an intense, immersive educational setting where those with or without experience...

I’m not an SEO. Until MozCon, I didn’t realize SEO (Search Engine Optimization) could be used as a job title. I knew that keywords and links are important for building site traffic, but meeting over a thousand people at MozCon whose entire careers...

I’m not an SEO. Until MozCon, I didn’t realize SEO (Search Engine Optimization) could be used as a job title. I knew that keywords and links are important for building site traffic, but meeting over a thousand people at MozCon whose entire careers...

I’m not an SEO. Until MozCon, I didn’t realize SEO (Search Engine Optimization) could be used as a job title. I knew that keywords and links are important for building site traffic, but meeting over a thousand people at MozCon whose entire careers...

We believe it’s important that companies provide a forum for employees to share their passions, learn about a diverse array of topics, and enjoy the company of their coworkers. For us at Bendyworks, a big way we do that is through our internal conference...

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...

Can’t get enough summer tunes? We certainly can’t, and so we’ve partnered with a number of local businesses to bring more music al fresco to our fine city.

ELEVATE, a free concert on the roof of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, places beautiful...

In our neighborhood spring has arrived. For us here in Wisconsin, that means we crawl out of our frost caves and igloos and offer sacrifices of cheese to the Sky-serpent so that he regurgitates Sky-orb for the summer. Also there’s lots of road construction...

Throughout the year, Bendyworks contributes to a number of community-based events - this year we’re also sponsoring individuals to support important work being done in the tech community.

To deepen the team’s knowledge of each of our projects, we started a client talk series during our weekly tech talk lunches.

Mark your calendars! Bendyworks will be hosting the Global Day of Code Retreat on Saturday, December 14th. What’s a code retreat, you ask?

A code retreat is a programming event that focuses on honing your skills. You take time out from your usually...

Bendyworks origins in Madison, WI means that we are football fans. With Green Bay in the playoffs we were able to try out a new advertising medium.

Take a listen to our ad below or listen to WIBA AM or FM during today’s game.

“Centro’s experience with Bendyworks was very positive. The developers we worked with were able to jump right into a complex code base and quickly contribute quality code to an ongoing project. Everyone was smart, pragmatic, and fun to work with.”...

Madison’s Weekly Newspaper, Isthmus, picked up a story from local freelance journalist Marc Eisen. The story, one in a series on Madison’s Next Economy, focuses on Brad Grzesiak’s idea of creating a tech corridor on the East Side of Madison.

Several...

Sometimes a line of discussion will open up into areas of unexpected intensity. Suddenly people are vehement and they won’t let go. When that happens, it’s interesting, and it might mean something.

This happened at Madison Ruby (#MadisonRuby) during...

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 RailsBridge Women’s Outreach Workshop being offered on Wednesday evening and during the day on Thursday....

The software industry faces a pressing issue: we just can’t find enough seasoned developers.

Universities may produce excellent computer scientists, but recent grads are typically short on practical knowledge and experience.

Regardless of pedigree...

Yesterday, at the request of their teacher Suman Banerjee, 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 & Professionalism...

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Some of the things we've been doing lately to give back.

Over 48 hours we built an app for Rails Rumble.

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