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WindyCityRails returns for its fifth year of focused Ruby on Rails learning, exploration, and fun. Expanding to two days allows time for a great speaker lineup and plenty of interaction among developers. The venue is located along beautiful Lake Michigan in the middle of a 9-hole golf course. WindyCityRails is not just a conference, it's a retreat!
Register today to secure your spot and save $250 off the full price of admission.
The full schedule and speaker lineup will be announced in June. Confirmed speakers include:
Steve Klabnik, author of Designing Hypermedia APIs
Steve Klabnik is a Ruby Hero, software craftsman, and an aspiring digital humanities scholar. He spends most of his time contributing to Open Source projects, and maintains both Hackety Hack and Shoes. He also teaches classes with Jumpstart Lab. Ruby, anarchism, #critcode. Steve hacks on @hacketyhack, teaches with @jumpstartlab, and reads as much as he possibly can.
GitHub: steveklabnik Twitter: @steveklabnik
Evan Light of Triple Dog Dare
Evan Light is a freelance software developer with 15 years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining commercial and enterprise applications for telecoms, government, and web startups. He has been a frequent speaker and attendee at technical conferences, particularly those focused on the Ruby programming language. He has published magazine articles on developing with Ruby. Evan founded and organizes the annual Ruby DCamp unconference. Evan is located just outside Ocean City, MD where he works primarily from his home office. Evan describes himself as a code janitor, Sci-Fi nerd, escaped Java developer, still loves C, his wife, and 4 cats.
GitHub: elight Twitter: @elight
Bryan Liles of Thunderbolt Labs
Bryan Liles is notorious for having coined the acronym TATFT. He’s a prolific teacher and conference presenter. Bryan's colleagues at Thunderbolt Labs describe him as insanely technical, but pragmatic. He’s personable, and can make a room laugh, but he’s strong enough to know when to push back on bad ideas. You can find Bryan at smartic.us.
GitHub: bryanl Twitter: @bryanl
Michael "Doc" Norton of LeanDog
Michael "Doc" Norton is an Agile Coach and a partner with LeanDog living in Wadsworth, OH. Michael's experience covers a wide range of development topics. Michael declares expertise in no single language or methodology and is immediately suspicious of anyone who declares such expertise. A frequent speaker, Michael is passionate about helping others become better developers, working with teams to improve delivery, and Software Craftsmanship.
GitHub: docondev Twitter: @docondev
Ryan Singer of 37signals
Ryan Singer leads design and manages product development at 37signals. He's one of those odd birds: an interface designer who also writes code and understands strategy. Ryan joined the company in 2003 and has worked on every version of Rails from v.0 to 3.0. He recently managed the ground-up redesign of their flagship product Basecamp. Ryan lives in Logan Square with his lovely wife and two silly dogs.
Yehuda Katz of Tilde Inc.
Yehuda Katz is a member of the Ember.js, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams; he spends his daytime hours at the startup he founded, Tilde Inc. Yehuda is the co-author of the best-selling jQuery in Action, Rails 3 in Action, and is a contributor to Ruby in Practice. He spends most of his time hacking on open source--his main projects, along with others, like Thor, Handlebars and Janus--or traveling the world doing evangelism work. He blogs at http://yehudakatz.com.
GitHub: wycats Twitter: @wycats
WindyCityRails sells out every year. Register today to secure your spot.
