ChicagoRuby: North Shore

This North Shore branch of ChicagoRuby meets on the 1st Saturday of each month. Come on out!

February's speaker: Noel Rappin
Topic: What We Talk About When We Talk About Testing

Noel is a Senior Developer and Agile Coach at Table XI (http://www.tablexi.com). Before that, Noel was in charge of internal training at Groupon. Before joining Groupon, Noel was a Senior Consultant at Obtiva, where he led teams on a variety of web development projects for clients. A seasoned and well-recognized web developer, Noel has authored five technical books including Rails 4 Test Prescriptions (http://pragprog.com/book/nrtest2/rails-4-test-prescriptions) and Master Space and Time With JavaScript (http://www.noelrappin.com/mstwjs). Noel is also the author or co-author of Professional Ruby on Rails (http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Ruby-Rails-Programmer/dp/047022388X), wxPython in Action (http://www.amazon.com/Wxpython-Action-Noel-Rappin/dp/1932394621), and Jython Essentials (http://www.amazon.com/Essentials-OReilly-Scripting-Samuele-Pedroni/dp/0596002475). Follow Noel on Twitter @noelrap, and online at http://www.noelrappin.com

Darren Holland's talk will be postponed till next month due to a conflict about the ChiRB::NS format.

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