Bio::Neos Blog

  • Internet Explorer and the Friendly Error Pages...

    Mike's picture By Mike
    19 Nov 2018 @ 12:53pm

    Technology

    Internet Explorer (and Microsoft Edge) is widely joked about as the bane of any web application developers existence. This is only somewhat true these days as Microsoft contains to make improvements to their browsers and bring them towards web standards compliance (Edge in particular has come a long way to support HTML5 features); but for those of us that have to support old versions of IE it is as true as it is today as it was nearly 10 years ago.

  • Our Commitment to the local ICR Community

    Steve's picture By Steve
    04 Oct 2018 @ 9:44am

    Community

    When we started Bio::Neos 14 years ago part of our company goals and values were a commitment to positive involvement with our community and providing education opportunities for students interested in technology and computer science. We have remained committed to these goals through the years, and are proud to see that other local organizations are rallying around these ideas in recent years.

  • Automatic Code Reviews with Upsource and Git

    Mike's picture By Mike
    14 Aug 2018 @ 12:46pm

    Technology

    We're a small shop here at Bio::Neos and spend a lot of our time wearing different hats. We try to make switching hats as easy as possible by finding the right tooling and environment to make us as efficient as we can be. Code reviews are a crucial part of our development process that we use to (1) ensure code quality, (2) improve our skills and (3) share knowledge between our developers, at both a project level and a professional level. But because we spend a majority of our time designing and writing software, the code review can be at times an easy part to leave out of the process.

  • Computer Science Education Work Group

    Steve's picture By Steve
    04 Nov 2017 @ 12:36pm

    Education

    After we founded Bio::Neos in 2004 we received a lot of support from the University of Iowa and other organizations in the Iowa City community. Bio::Neos would not exist today without that initial support we had received from others, and as a result, we have made it a core value to engage in any opportunities that we encounter to give back through mentoring, volunteering, and advocating for all of the organizations in our local community.

  • Comp Sci Education Week 2016

    Steve's picture By Steve
    16 Feb 2017 @ 8:34am

    Community Education

    This last December, we at Bio::Neos had the opportunity to participate in Computer Science Education Week for the second straight year and it was just as energizing as the first! Last year, everyone in the office signed up as volunteers on Code.org, but only I was engaged to volunteer at schools that were requesting help. This year... we decided to be a bit more proactive in our support.

  • Midwest Big Data Hackathon

    Michael's picture By Michael
    12 Oct 2016 @ 4:44pm

    Education

    I had the opportunity to judge at the Midwest Big Data Hackathon hosted by the University of Iowa this past weekend. The event was open to all students and it was awesome seeing people that had experience in different fields, students and volunteers alike. I saw students from a couple years from graduating with the Bachelors degree to students that were just shy of getting their PhD.

  • Kids coding

    Steve's picture By Steve
    29 Jun 2016 @ 11:46am

    Community Education

    A couple weeks back, Michael and I volunteered for an event at the Coralville Library organized by Erica Binegar and called "On Your Mark! Get Set! Code!". It was a one hour class in which kids of 5th/6th graders of any ability level or previous experience were invited to the library to pair program for 1 hour under the guidance of a group of professional mentors (Including us there was Trish Ball from Continuity).

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