Five days of intensive Django training, taught by one of Django's lead developers. Not just lectures: lots of hands-on training and Q&A opportunities.
Tickets include five nights at the hotel, transportation to and from the airport, internet access in your room and throughout the hotel, breakfast, lunch, coffee, snacks, and dinner on Monday night.
Airfare to to Kansas City International (MCI) is not included.
Why?
You already know Django; now it's time to take your skills to the next level.
This class is intended for students who already know and are using Django. It's an intermediate- to advanced-level level class; students will be expected to have used Django for at least a few months prior to the class.
Who?
The instructor is Jacob Kaplan-Moss (bio), one of the creators and core developers of Django, and co-author of The Definitive Guide to Django.
Where?
The training will take place at the Q Hotel & Spa in Kansas City. The hotel has been newly renovated to be a nationally-recognized "green" hotel. It's a very "geek-friendly" hotel: free WiFi in rooms and throughout the hotel, in-room iPod/iPhone docks, HDTVs, etc.
The hotel is in Kansas City's Wesport district, and is in walking distance to dozens of restaurants, bars, coffee shops, and the like. Westport is the place to be in Kansas City after dark, so there's plenty to do after classes end. The hotel also offers a free shuttle to other parts of Kansas City.
When?
Monday, March 15 – Friday, March 20, 2010.
Classes will be held all day Monday - Thursday from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. Friday's classes will end at noon to allow students to catch their flights home.
We'll hold a couple of (optional) evening events.
Schedule:
Sunday: Arrive in Kansas City. Monday: Advanced Django techniques: models and databases; forms, formsets, inline formsets, model formsets; URLs and Views: advanced dispatching, class-based views; testing: unit testing, integration testing, fitness testing, browser testing. Tuesday: Developing distributable applications: best practices for app development; patterns for application development; distributing Django applications internally and publicly; developing and distributing Django applications with Buildout. Wednesday: Django deployment workshop: develop an entire deployment stack (on virtual machines) using Fabric, Varnish, nginx, mod_wsgi, memcached, PostgreSQL, pgpool, pg_standby, and more.
Learn how to set up multiple levels of caching and load balancing, multiple web application servers, shared media servers, redundant replicated database servers, separate caching servers, and high availability throughout.
Thursday: The Django ecosystem: GeoDjango, schema migration (South), APIs (Piston), queues (Celery), search (Haystack), and more. Friday: Grab-bag, depending on interest: Q&A, Django internals, and-or peer code review.
Depart Kansas City; classes end at noon.
Tickets
Early-bird tickets are $2,495; register before Feburary 12th to receive this price. Full-price tickets are $2,995 per person.
Groups of 3 or more (from the same company) may register at a discounted rate. Discounts are also available to employees of Revolution Systems' clients and alumni of previous training events. Contact training@revsys.com for details.
Questions?
Please get in touch: training@revsys.com.