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