WindyCityRails 2012
WindyCityRails 2012 brings together 15 interviews from 2012. Recurring themes include Ruby and Rails practice, conference speaking and presentation skills, and community building and user-group organizing. Featured interviewees include Adam Grandy, Amy Kinney, Benjamin Oakes, and Brian Liles.
- Coverage: 15 interviews from 2012.
- Featured interviewees: Adam Grandy, Amy Kinney, Benjamin Oakes, Brian Liles, and Eric MacAdie.
- Common themes: Ruby and Rails practice, conference speaking and presentation skills, community building and user-group organizing, conference AV production and audio best practices, and podcasting and community media.
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- Evan Light Interview
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Interviewee: Noel Rappin
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Noel Rappin has a long history speaking and teaching even before he joined the TDD community. Noel has co-authored books for Python, Ruby+Rails and now he’s focusing on teaching testing concepts in JavaScript through the “Master Space and Time With JavaScript” series.
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Interviewee: Evan Light
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Evan Light created the very cool Ruby DCamp “unconference” that takes techies out from their urban confines and get’s them out to code & collaborate in the great wilderness outside of D.C.
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Interviewee: Steve Klabnik
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: While most tech conference speakers tend to present on purely technical content, Steve Klabnik likes to take a more thoughtful approach to the software industry. Steve presented on Literate Code at WindyCityRails 2011 and in 2012 presented Development and Philosophy. I think it’s very worthwhile to spend at least a bit of time thinking *about* our industry as it relates to us personally and to society at large is a very good thing.
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Interviewee: Stephen Anderson
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Stephen Anderson at WindyCityRails 2012 on ruby and rails practice. Themes include Rails, Ruby.
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Interviewee: Ryan Singer
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Ryan Singer at WindyCityRails 2012 on Ruby and Rails practice. Themes include Rails, Ruby.
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Interviewee: Amy Kinney
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Movie on 9-6-12 at 1.05 PM at WindyCityRails 2012 on conference speaking and presentation skills. The conversation captures practical lessons shared at the event.
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Interviewee: Adam Grandy
Topic: podcasting and community media
Video description: Not everyone who is involved in running a technical user-conference is a programmer. Adam Grandy is the “A-V Guy” for the WindyCityRails conference. While most of us are watching the conference for entertainment and education, Adam is carefully watching every second of the conference to keep the speaker in focus and make sure that all the valuable information that’s being shared is captured in high-quality, professional-level video. Adam is one of those unsung people that puts in a great deal of
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Interviewee: Kevin Zolkiewiecz
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Kevin Zolkiewiecz at WindyCityRails 2012 on ruby and rails practice. Themes include Rails, Ruby.
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Interviewee: Jim Remsik
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Jim Remsik at WindyCityRails 2012 on conference speaking and presentation skills. Themes include Ruby.
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Interviewee: Ginny Hendry
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Ginny Hendry started as a member of ChicagoRuby and before she knew it she was running Ruby Hackfests and now she’s helping facilitate Railsbridge Womens Outreach workshops.
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Interviewee: Eric MacAdie
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Eric MacAdie at WindyCityRails 2012 on Ruby and Rails practice. Themes include Ruby, testing practice, Rails.
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Interviewee: Brian Liles
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Brian Liles at WindyCityRails 2012 on conference speaking and presentation skills. Themes include Rails, Ruby, testing practice.
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Interviewee: Benjamin Oakes
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Interview with Benjamin Oakes at WindyCityRails 2012 on Ruby and Rails practice. Themes include Ruby.
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Interviewees: Milan Dobrota, Jen Lindner
Topic: community building and user-group organizing
Video description: Interview with Milan Dobrota and Jen Lindner on Tribune Tech's community engagement, including hosting local meetups and connecting Tribune engineering with Chicago user groups.
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Interviewee: Justin Love
Topic: ruby and rails practice
Video description: Justin Love is very active in the Chicago Ruby & JavaScript communities. He’s also starting up a “Demo Days” group out in the far suburbs of Chicago to help with aspiring entrepreneurs learn how to pitch their ideas.