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+title: "Viget Devs Storm Chicago"
+date: 2009-09-15T00:00:00+00:00
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+[![](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/53100874_f605bd5f42_m.jpg){align="right"}](http://www.flickr.com/photos/laffy4k/53100874/)
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+This past weekend, Ben and I travelled to Chicago to speak at [Windy
+City Rails](http://windycityrails.org/). It was a great conference;
+highlights included [Dean Wampler](http://www.deanwampler.com/)'s
+discussion of functional programming in Ruby, [Noel
+Rappin](http://www.railsprescriptions.com/)'s talk on handling
+difficult-to-test portions of your applications, and our own [Ben
+Scofield](https://www.viget.com/about/team/bscofield)'s very polished
+presentation about modeling difficult domains. This was the second time
+I'd seen [Yeduda Katz](http://yehudakatz.com/)'s keynote on the history
+and future of the Rails framework, and that the talk has come so far in
+the last three months says promising things for the progress of Rails 3.
+
+Speaking at Windy City Rails was just as much an excuse to hang out in
+Chicago as it was a chance to share knowledge with the Ruby community.
+We knocked out the major [food](http://www.portillos.com/)
+[groups](http://www.loumalnatis.com/) on the first day, and I set aside
+a few days after the conference to wander the city. Big thanks to the
+conference organizers and attendees. Videos of all of the talks will be
+appearing on the [conference website](http://windycityrails.org/) soon.