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1 --- 2 title: "Viget Devs Storm Chicago" 3 date: 2009-09-15T00:00:00+00:00 4 draft: false 5 canonical_url: https://www.viget.com/articles/viget-devs-storm-chicago/ 6 --- 7 8 {{<dither 53100874_f605bd5f42_m.jpg "" "inline">}}Chicago Theatre’s neon marquee glowing over State Street at night.{{</dither>}} 9 10 This past weekend, Ben and I traveled to Chicago to speak at [Windy 11 City Rails](http://windycityrails.org/). It was a great conference; 12 highlights included [Dean Wampler](http://www.deanwampler.com/)'s 13 discussion of functional programming in Ruby, [Noel 14 Rappin](http://www.railsprescriptions.com/)'s talk on handling 15 difficult-to-test portions of your applications, and our own [Ben 16 Scofield](https://www.viget.com/about/team/bscofield)'s very polished 17 presentation about modeling difficult domains. This was the second time 18 I'd seen [Yeduda Katz](http://yehudakatz.com/)'s keynote on the history 19 and future of the Rails framework, and that the talk has come so far in 20 the last three months says promising things for the progress of Rails 3. 21 22 Speaking at Windy City Rails was just as much an excuse to hang out in 23 Chicago as it was a chance to share knowledge with the Ruby community. 24 We knocked out the major [food](http://www.portillos.com/) 25 [groups](http://www.loumalnatis.com/) on the first day, and I set aside 26 a few days after the conference to wander the city. Big thanks to the 27 conference organizers and attendees. Videos of all of the talks will be 28 appearing on the [conference website](http://windycityrails.org/) soon.