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  1. Today @redsquirrel shows us Resque, followed by a discussion on queuing theory.
  2. Learning how to test everything in Rails from @noelrap
  3. Special guest @pandamonial took us on a whirlwind tour of the Functional-fu of F#. Mind-blowing. And @delitescere lurked in the back. :P
  4. Special guest @jhuggins presented on the advantages of http://p13y.com/ Discussion ensued about sequential test suites in a multicore world.
  5. Learning about Collective Intelligence, Map/Reduce from @jakescruggs. With @deanwampler, @unclebobmartin and free @apprntcshpptrns for all!
  6. Special guest for our next meeting is @unclebobmartin!
  7. An excellent talk about Internal vs. External DSLs in Scala from @deanwampler. With a full crowd of Obtivians, which now includes @noelrap!
  8. [belated] Learned about #googlewave bots from @aberant and a pet project of @tomkersten's.
  9. @jbrains @roykolak will be writing up a "JB is my Homeskillet" summary that we'll post somewhere. Stay tuned...
  10. Presentation from @roykolak about his experience pair programming with his homeskillet @jbrains. Spurred tons of great conversations.
  11. Hackfest today! Too many being hacked on on to summarize. Visit from @phirefly, an alumni from our Rails TDD Boot Camp.
  12. Learning about OAuth from @freemarmoset.
  13. Brief discussion of UX + Agile from @AndyMaleh. Debrief from @WindyCityRails. Planned out next few weeks, thanks to @jimbreen.
  14. A picture from our gathering today, by @cory_foy: http://twitpic.com/f8p06
  15. Getting an overview of @totheralisai's #agile2009 keynote from @cory_foy.
  16. Special guests @dastels, @paulwpagel, and @cory_foy with us today, time to grab a sandwich.
  17. #scna preview of "Apprenticing to Mastery" by @paulwpagel and @redsquirrel. Took a bit longer than 30 minutes.
  18. Special guest @stuarthalloway today! @jakescruggs to present "The Right Level of Testing".
  19. Had a helpful discussion about some current projects and their challenges. Ate @potbelly, as usual.
  20. @tomkersten presented an excellent introduction to git.