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  1. Had a helpful discussion about some current projects and their challenges. Ate @potbelly, as usual.
  2. @tomkersten presented an excellent introduction to git.
  3. @aberant showed his iPhone → tuio-ruby → Ableton Live spike. @andymaleh drove an interactive Ioke exploration. Missed @apprentice.
  4. @aberant demoed BlinkM. @tyler_jennings showed Crystal Ball iteration tracking chart. @andymaleh introduced Ioke. @sentientholon on Clojure.
  5. I got mentioned in the @chicagotribune! http://is.gd/12rsw OK, you won't see me in the web version. But I'm a caption in the print version!
  6. A nice, relaxed discussion of some diverse discoveries several of us have made over the last few weeks. And some Q&A about recent projects.
  7. @tyler_jennings gave us a introduction to Scala. Reminiscent of @AndyMaleh's Scala explorations at @geekfest back in 2007. Ate Potbelly.
  8. Hackfest! OSGi with @jimbreen, big discussion in the library, ActionMailer patch, @SudokuScanner on Scala. Plus: 8th Light, @chicagotribune.
  9. Hackfest! SudokuScanner on Scala with @tyler_jennings. rSpec on MacRuby with @njackson. Secret internal project with @tomkersten. Potbelly.
  10. Hackfest! More "secret" project development: comic books, Sudoku, baby names and more, it's quite a portfolio. Ate Roti with @jsuchy.
  11. Hackfest! Lots of internal project hacking going on today, not stuff we can talk about yet.
  12. @jimbreen talked about his recent use of #fitnesse. Also discussed ways to win a belligerent programmer over.
  13. @dnawara and @tomkersten taught us http://github.com/danboy/te.... Fred showed us a simple fork/exec technique for Rails backgrounding.
  14. Discussed last night's Coding Dojo at #chirb and planned to do something similar at @geekfest soon. Ate My Thai.
  15. ROTFLMAO while watching @AndyMaleh and @tyler_jennings do their first run of their Pairing Parody for @agile2009: http://is.gd/lCMR
  16. Hackfest with @coreyhaines! iPhone brain dump from @njackson. More MIDI from @aberant. Glimmer from @AndyMaleh. Learning FTW! Ate Potbelly.
  17. Hackfest! @aberant on http://is.gd/jRDw. @AndyMaleh on Glimmer. Fred on checkers/Clojure. @jakescruggs on metric_fu. @apprentice on iPhone.
  18. @jakescruggs demoed http://squid.searchreturn.com. Then we told some consulting war stories. And @redsquirrel previewed a DSL he's writing.
  19. First hackfest! @aberant on ultimate midi controller. @AndyMaleh on tree binding in Glimmer. @tomkersten on metric_fu aggregator. My Thai!
  20. @AndyMaleh gave a presentations on Rails Security Audits based on some recent project experiences. Fred showed some @madmimi JavaScript.