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Nov 11, 2010
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August 2011
Obtiva Acquired by Groupon
Kat Nelson-Reid Shows Web 2.0 Expo Attendees "How to Speak Geek"
July 2011
Noel Rappin Takes His Wisdom to Texas
TechWeek Trainer Spotlight #10 - Shay Howe
What You Should Know About Attending a Startup Weekend
TechWeek Trainer Spotlight #9 - Tyler Jennings
TechWeek Trainer Spotlight #8 - Micah Martin
TechWeek Trainer Spotlight #7 - Noel Rappin
TechWeek Trainer Spotlight #6 - Shinji Kuwayama
TechWeek Trainer Spotlight #5 - Jeff Cohen
TechWeek Trainer Spotlight #4 - Brandon Passley
TechWeek Trainer Spotlight #3 - Billy Whited
TechWeek Trainer Spotlight #2: Alice Toth
Psyched for SPARK
Startup Weekend is July 22-24: Are You Ready?
Code Retreat with Corey Haines, Michael Feathers & Tyler Jennings July 26!
TechWeek Trainer Spotlight #1: Jon Buda
Obtiva Powers TechWeek Training
Agile Gentrification
Code Retreat
Obtiva TechWeek Happy Hour
Obtiva Denver Drinkup
Heard About SPARK Chicago Yet?
Get Smarter: Michael Feathers on Agile
June 2011
JC Grubbs Wants YOU at ChicagoWebConf
Kick off TechWeek with Agile Intensive w/ Michael Feathers
An Awesome Story from Denver Startup Weekend
A Don't-Miss Event: Michael Feathers at APLN June 23
Chicago TechWeek
Knowing Ourselves
Achievable Quality
Ready... Set... TechWeek!
Lone Star Ruby: The Best Little Ruby Conf in Texas
CSS-Spriter - a journey to find the right level of testing
Cory & Nathan Hit the Stage at BoulderUX
Obtiva and Recruiting
You can't afford to skip the refactor step.
Matt Puchlerz Scholarship Awarded
May 2011
Fun with Ruby: IT'S A TRAP!
Refresh Chicago
If you plan to stand up, plan for the stand-up
It's Code Camp Time
Obtiva's Newest Senior Consultants
We Make Clients Happy (just ask ConnectedHealth)
Three Weeks an Apprentice
Hey Denver! Get Ready for StartupWeekend June 3-5
Concrete Metrics
Agile Training in Denver May 24-25
TechWeek Chicago is Gonna Rock
April 2011
Tyler and Noel Head to Red Dirt Country
Vote for Obtiva as the ITA's Rising Star
Refresh Chicago April Meetup
DODGEBALL!!
The Chicago Technology Academy
March 2011
Testing and the Cosmic Horizon
Getting Started with WebMock and VCR
Obtiva at 5,280 Feet: Mile High Agile
Faking HTTP requests with WebMock and VCR
Registration Now Open for SCNA 2011
Kevin Taylor Contributes Brainpower to WBEZ Radio's New Tech Committee
Obtiva Apprentice Jon Homan to Speak at Twin Cities Code Camp
Chris Powers Speaks at "Ruby on Ales" in Oregon
Noel on a Roll: Next Stop RailsConf
A Community Reminder
The Relational Model and MySQL at Groupon
Ryan Briones Spreads the Ruby Word at Flourish Conference
Noel Rappin's Rails Test Prescriptions Book Signing
February 2011
The Shape of Your Code
Noel Rappin's Book Signing - March 8
Know Your Tools: ActiveRecord Collections
Two Boulder Events for Developers
Stretching Toward Incompetency at speakerconf
Details on Obtiva Training at MountainWest RubyConf
Software Craftsmanship McHenry County
Journeyman Tour: A 2-part talk on a boat in Cleveland
What is Obtiva's Apprenticeship Program?
Andy Maleh to Speak at MountainWest RubyConf
Michael Feathers Joins Obtiva
Deliver Wow?
More Momentum at Mile High Agile
Journeyman Tour Road Trip Reflections
Javascript Specs with Jasmine - A Primer for Rubyists, Part 2
January 2011
Take it from Groupon: Obtiva Delivers WOW
Pair Programming: The Red Pill
Journeyman Tour to Entryway
Journeyman Tour to Floyd, Virginia
Javascript Specs with Jasmine - A Primer for Rubyists, Part 1
Journeyman Tour to NimblePros and LeanDog
Journeyman Tour to EdgeCase Day 2
Mile High Agile Conference
Michael Feathers Lunch & Learn- Recovering Ruby Code
Mountain West Ruby Conference
Scottish Ruby Conference
Mountain West Ruby Conference
Red Dirt RubyConf
Training @ Mountain West Ruby Conference
Magic Ruby Conference
Chicago Code Camp
Magic Ruby
Testing Scopes in Rails3
Obtiva is Gold Sponsor of MountainWest RubyConf
Journeyman Tour to EdgeCase Day 1
4 Obtivians to Speak at Scottish Ruby
Hoover’s Journeyman Tour: 3 Continents and an Island
Ethan and Obtiva Get a Shout-Out in New Book on Social Media
Refresh Chicago January Meetup
Chicago's Entrepreneurial Spirit
Mile High Agile 2011 in Denver April 7
January OHH! (Obtiva Happy Hour)
Apprenticeship call to Action
Network of Learning
Network of Learning
Learn to Apply Design Patterns with Andy Maleh
Chicago Ruby on Rails Community: Listener or Member in 2011?
December 2010
Javascript Specs with Jasmine at Obtiva Geekfest
Matt Polito @ ChicagoRuby
The Right Way to Improve Software
Open Gov. Talk at Obtiva Geekfest
Integrity
Jelly Chicago presents Tech the Halls
Corey Haines' MercuryApp Gaining Steam
Persistence is an implementation detail
Tyler Jennings at DESIGN+DEVELOP
Tyler Jennings at DESIGN+DEVELOP
Maleh's Magic Ruby
November 2010
Dave Hoover Asks, "Do You Know Resque?"
Embracing Change
Ryan Briones at RubyConf - Wrap Up
Storing and Serving Dynamic Assets with MongoDB's GridFS
Chicago Startup Weekend
Chicago Startup Weekend
Chicago Startup Weekend
Kat Nelson-Reid is Ready for Chicago Startup Weekend
Ryan Briones at RubyConf - Day Two (Part I)
Ryan Briones at RubyConf - Day One (Part II)
Ryan Briones at RubyConf - Day One (Part I)
When you need more than production from Heroku
What's the Purpose?
Secrets of Real World Software Development Video
October 2010
Obtiva Sponsors the Awesome CodeMash 2011
Ready for Rappin's Book!
Lean Startup Machine Chicago
Kevin Taylor Judge/Keynoter at Lean Startup Machine Chicago
ChicagoDB - November: GFS and GridFS
Obtiva Happy Hour - OHH!
SCNA
Refresh Chicago presents: Doing Our Homework with CSS Frameworks
SCNA
SCNA After Party
ChicagoDB October Meeting
When Messes Are Fine
Check Out Software Craftsmanship North America Oct. 15-16
Noel Rappin a "Ruby Guru" on RubyLearning.com
September 2010
midVentures Innovation Labs
midVentures Launch
Get Ready: 3 Obtiva Workshops at midVentures Launch Sept. 27-28
ChicagoDB - September
WindyCityRails: Testing in a Legacy Environment
Noel Knows... Testing (Check out his Coderpath Podcast)
Ryan Briones Speaks at Twin Cities Code Camp
WindyCityRails '10 Conference Report
Obtiva Contractor Mike Hall's Iron Languages Podcast
Kat Nelson-Reid to Lead ITA OpenDoors Consulting Sessions
Listen Now: Obtiva Sponsors Ruby5 Podcast
Remembering Matt Puchlerz: 1984 - 2010
August 2010
Thinking Differently about Data
Introducing Professor Kevin P. Taylor, DePaul University
Find Your Mojo at the Coding Dojo at Windy City Rails
Deploying a JavaScript Application to Google AppEngine in 30 Minutes
Announcing Windy City Rails 2010!
Obtiva Open House and 5th Anniversary Celebration is August 24
Obtiva Developer and Ruby Junkie Ethan Gunderson Gets Some Ink in Rails Magazine
Dave Hoover's Wisdom Knows No Geographic Boundaries
Refresh Chicago Meetup Wednesday, July 28
Obtivian Ethan Gunderson Speaks at Mongo Chicago Oct. 20
Obtiva Makes the Inc 5000 List!
June 2010
Ben Franklin. Thomas Jefferson. Ryan Briones. Ethan Gunderson. Founding fathers, all. But some know databases more than others.
Noel Rappin talks TDD: Keys to making tests awesome and less frustrating
Noel Knows Ruby: Noel Rappin’s new e-book on Rails and Test-Driven Development makes its debut
Cultivating tomorrow’s geeks: Obtiva’s Dave Hoover and Paul Pagel of 8th Light talk apprenticeships at QCon
Obtiva a Hope for Haiti Now Technology Partner
Growing Mad Mimi: Sharing Disruptive Techniques by Dave Hoover
Dojo Retrospectives by Jake Scruggs & Dave Hoover
How To Test Absolutely Anything by Noel Rappin from ChicagoRuby
Kat Nelson-Reid at Startup Weekend Chicago: 54 hours of brainstorming. 85 attendees. One exhilarating weekend.
Get your NoSQL on! Register now for an unprecedented all-day database deep dive at IIT Saturday, June 26.
NoSQL buzz is building: WindyCityDB Conference June 26 brings all-day immersion into the NoSQL movement. Obtiva is speaking and sponsoring.
February 2010
Chicago Software Craftsmanship Meeting
What makes a developer valuable to Obtiva?
January 2010
Leveling-Up Mastery
September 2009
Obtiva's own, Andy Maleh has been asked to give a webinar
August 2009
Obtiva to Participate at Chicago TechExpo 2009
July 2009
Obtiva Hosts Agile Redesign Workshop
June 2009
Software Craftsmanship North America 2009 Announced
May 2009
Obtiva and 8th Light Swap
Obtiva Hosting PreDevCamp Chicago
January 2009
Taylor a Panelist on Open Source Business Models
October 2008
Obtiva Participates at RubyConf 2008
September 2008
Visit Us at EclipseWorld 2008
August 2008
Upcoming Webinar: Creating Enterprise Business Applications Using Eclipse RCP
July 2008
Obtiva unveils new brand identity
May 2008
Obtiva opens new location in downtown Chicago in response to growth.
April 2008
Dave Hoover to publish Apprenticeship Patterns
Glimmer enables efficient authoring of desktop UI
March 2008
Obtiva shares RCP experience at EclipseCon 2008
