Web Frameworks Advanced Boot Camp
You've heard all the hype around web frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django. Now see why. In this new advanced boot camp, we'll take you from the basics to a fully functioning data-driven application in Django, the web framework that drives award-winning projects like EveryBlock, PolitiFact, and The Washington Post's congressional votes databases. Editors and producers know this work is hot. You know it’s the next step for your CAR skills. Now learn how in these hands-on sequential classes.
Because it’s an advanced sequence, please plan to attend all of the mini-boot camp classes. And please make sure you meet the following prerequisites before signing up:
- Fluent in SQL
- Skill in SQL Server, MySQL or another database program beyond Access
- Familiar with relational concepts
Please note that the track is designed to build skills sequentially so you must attend all sessions. Only 15 seats are available. Pre-registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. (IRE may request more information about your experience wtih the required skill set.)
If you have not yet registered for the 2008 CAR Conference, you can choose the Web Frameworks Advanced Boot Camp Option on the main registration form.
If you have already signed up but wish to add this option, click here: online Web Frameworks Boot Camp request .
After you submit your request, IRE will verify your conference registration and check availability. You will receive a confirmation note about your registration status. If you have questions about the Web Frameworks training or the prerequisite skills, please contact David Donald, ddonald@ire.org.
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Saturday |
Sunday |
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Panel or Hands-On Class |
Room |
2:00 - 3:10pm |
A: Intro to Django and frameworks: What a framework does, what happens when a user makes a request and why all this matters to journalism.
• Chase Davis,Houston Chronicle
• Aron Pilhofer,The New York Times
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Lamar |
3:20 - 4:30pm |
A: Objects, Models and the ORM: The foundations of frameworks, the object, the model and the object relational model, or ORM.
• Brian Hamman,The New York Times
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Lamar |
4:40 - 5:50pm |
A: Prepping your data: How to turn your data into the foundation of your app. Here we talk about relational data, good model design and putting that data into your models
• Chase Davis,Houston Chronicle
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Lamar |
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Time |
Panel or Hands-On Class |
Room |
2:00 - 3:10pm |
A: Using the ORM to get data: All that data we put in? Now we start to get it out by learning the foundations of the ORM's query syntax
• Brian Hamman,The New York Times
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Lamar |
3:20 - 4:30pm |
A: Design by URL: Used to be, a URL went to a static file. In a framework, a URL is a critical component of your application.
• Matt Waite,St. Petersburg Times
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Lamar |
4:40 - 5:50pm |
A: Views: The view is where the work gets done. Information from the request goes in and data for your templates goes out. Here we take another step toward putting it all together.
• Derek Willis,The New York Times
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Lamar |
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Time |
Panel or Hands-On Class |
Room |
9-10:10 a.m. |
A: Templates: Templates are what your users see. Here we talk about how to take the data passed from the view and turn it into something your designers can start to work with.
• Matt Waite,St. Petersburg Times
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Lamar |
10:20 - 11:30am |
A: Wrap up, show off: We'll wrap up with questions and show off some tricks, like feeding Google Maps, Google Charts, Twitter and some other flashy things with Django.
• Matt Waite,St. Petersburg Times
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Lamar |
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