Last Chance for Discounts on Training at Plone Conference 2011
Wednesday, August 31st is the last day for getting the early bird discount on training given prior to the Plone Conference 2011 in San Francisco this November.
The Plone Conference 2011 has a great lineup of training set to take place over the two days before the opening of the conference - November 1 & 2. Between now and August 31, you can still register for these classes for $350 (which covers both days) - before the regular price of $395 kicks in on September 1st. (Please note, the Conference registration fee does not include the price of the training sessions.)
Conference training offers those interesting in upping their Plone skill set with a chance to receive top notch training from some of the best trainers in the Plone community at an excellent price. Make sure you sign up before all the seats in the class you are interested fill up.
The links below will take you directly to more information on each course and a page where you can register for the individual classes.
Theming Plone 4 — Chrissy Wainwright
This training session includes front-end design of a Plone 4.0 site from start to finish using two methods: Traditional Plone theming, and using plone.app.theming. The training will be a hands-on, introductory walk-through of the process, using a pre-created sample design. Attendees will need their computers and will be expected to follow along on their own local instances.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of XHTML and CSS; Basic familiarity with Plone.
Course Registration & More information on Theming Plone 4
Getting off the Ground with Plone — Cris Ewing
So you've heard about Plone, this smart, secure and powerful content management system and you'd like to get started. Where to begin? This training course is for you.You'll learn how to install Plone, how to create your first website and get started adding content, how to get quick, simple victories for your new project, and how to deploy your site when you're ready to go live.
Course Registration & More information on Getting off the Ground …
Plone Development Environment and Deployment Masterclass — Martin Aspeli
Learn to develop and deploy like a Plone pro! On the first day, you will learn how to set up a powerful and productive development environment, employing the tools the professionals use to debug, document and release manage their code. The second day will focus on caching, performance optimisation, deployment configuration and application lifecycle management.
Technologies covered will include: Buildout; mr.developer; the Python debugger; plone.reload; Sphinx; PyPI-style distribution management; plone.app.caching; HAProxy; Varnish; and nginx.
Prerequisites: Some Plone customization or development experience will be helpful to bring the content into context. Familiarity with the command line will be necessary for day two.
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Creating Custom Content Types with Dexterity — Steve McMahon
With Plone 4, the Dexterity content-type-development framework has become a practical and desirable alternative to the Archetypes framework Plone has featured in previous versions. This course will show how it's possible to use Dexterity now to build reliable and maintainable new content types for Plone 4+.
Prerequisites: Basic Python, HTML and XML. Command-line skills on your platform of choice.
Course Registration & More information on Content Types with Dexterity
Pyramid for Humans — Paul Everitt
Pyramid has emerged as a fast, modern, lightweight web framework for the Pylons and Zope communities. When you just need a web app, and not a full CMS, Pyramid lets you retain many of the same Plone technologies. This hands-on tutorial covers a little about a lot: practical introductions to the most common facilities. Fun, fast-paced, and most certainly not aimed at experts.
Prerequisites: Basic Python, HTML
Course Registration & More information on Pyramid for Humans
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