Benjamin Oakes

Hi, I'm Ben Oakes and this is my geek blog. Currently, I'm a Ruby/JavaScript Developer at Continuity Control. Previously, I was a Software Developer at Hedgeye, a Research Assistant in the Early Social Cognition Lab at Yale University and a student at the University of Iowa. I also organize ICRuby and OpenHack Iowa City, and previously organized NewHaven.rb. I have an amazing wife named Danielle Oakes.

WindyCityRails 2012

September 10th, 2012 by Ben

South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago
(Photo: Jeff Zoline CC BY-NC 2.0)

WindyCityRails was a lot of fun.

As I’ve done in the past, I took notes and put them into an open wiki on GitHub. Some quick stats: the wiki project is up from approx. 220 stars to 241 right now, and even got a few more contributors (~49 → 53).

Anyway, I thought I’d share some of the better talks:

* David Chelimsky: The RSpec Toolbox
* Evan Light: Frustration Driven Development
* Steve Klabnik: Development and Philosophy
* Several really good Lightning Talks

Both David Chelimsky and Steve Klabnik contributed to the wiki, which was a nice surprise. :) Steve’s talk was really good, but hard to do it justice with any notes… I was happy to see that he annotated it.