Welcome! This Meet Up is for the West Side Stories Toastmasters Club, a brand new club in the Fox Valley. Like other Toastmasters Clubs, West Side Stories utilizes the proven tools that Toastmasters International provides to help members develop stronger leadership and communication skills. What makes this club different is we have a special emphasis on leveraging the power of storytelling! In today's world, people are drowning in information. What we lack is the skills necessary to weave all of …

We'll be exploring Ruby web application development, mostly through the Ruby on Rails framework, but we'll cover other topics like setting up your system for Rails dev, testing and behavior driven development, JavaScript programming (backbone.js, node.js, etc), amongst other code related things. We don't require that you know Ruby to join, but it's going to be a technical group, so it's probably only a good fit for actual or aspiring web application developers. That being said, if you want to c …