Training
Whether you are just getting started or looking to take your Plone ninja skills to the next level, the Plone training sessions are a great way to get your questions answered. Scale that learning curve and meet great Plone community members at the same time.
Trainings will be held the two days before the Conference begins. Register separately for each course by following the "Course Registration …" links below. Courses are $350 until August 31st, then $395.
Training dates for 2011 are Tuesday and Wednesday, November 1st and 2nd, and the classes will be held in downtown San Francisco near (or at) the Conference event site. Please note, the Conference registration fee does not include the price of the training sessions.
Training Schedule
All courses are two days.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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