Wednesday, October 29, 2008 by Niels Hartvig

We're finally running a round of courses again - on November 17-18th and 20-21st. Short notice, but a lot of things had to click to make this happen.

The courses will follow the very same model that have made the last eight rounds of courses a massive success, but this time it'll focus entirely about Umbraco 4 which will be released by the end of this year and which gained use-for-new-projects status with the release of Beta 2 last Friday (more on that later this week).

So we'll look at Masterpages, XSLT Debugging with Visual Studio, the new Event model, Live Editing, Membership Providers, Package creation and many of the other improvements that'll make Umbraco 4 a milestone in Web CMS. By attending the course you'll be among the very first to become experts and certified on the new platform.

The agendas for the courses are as follows:

November 17-18th: Level 1 - implementing websites using umbraco:

  • Understanding the umbraco basics - Boost/Nitro, Document Types, Templates and Macros (including usage of the new Masterpages functionality)
  • Creating a simple website from scratch
  • Understanding XSLT - creating a news "module"
  • Creating multi-language websites including coverage of Dictionary Items and Languages
  • Advanced properties: Re-use of properties and recursive usage of properties
  • Two-way feedback using AutoForms and Notifications
  • Optimizing markup for Live Editing
  • Great Packages: Implementing full-text searching and mail forms

November 20-21st: Level 2 - umbraco for .NET Developers, extending and integrating solutions

  • Usage of .NET User Controls with umbraco
  • Debugging XSLT and .NET Controls with umbraco and Visual Studio
  • In-depth explanation of the umbraco object model and usage of the umbraco presentation APIs
  • Creating, importing and modifying content from .NET using the API
  • Usage of AJAX and umbraco
  • Extending XSLT with custom .NET classes
  • Custom event handling in umbraco using the brand new event handlers in Umbraco 4
  • How to integrate legacy authentication systems using Membership and Role Provider

The registration is open and the first seats are already booked - as always we encourage you to register fast as the past courses have all sold out.

6 comment(s) for “Umbraco Course in November - all about Umbraco 4”

  1. Gravatar ImageDirk De Grave Says:

    Allright,

    I can't barely wait to take off...

    Meet you guys there in three weeks.

    /Dirk

  2. Gravatar ImageAlex N Says:

    Hi, I'm new to Umbraco and appraising v4 for a new and extremely high-profile website launch early next year. Would LOVE to join but these courses happen to clash with a project meeting, do you have other dates planned before the end of the year, and what country would they likely be in?

  3. Gravatar ImageNik Says:

    Sweet! I was able to score a seat this time! It will be awesome to meet folks and roll up my sleeves with some code...:)

    Does anyone have suggestions for hotels while in CPH?

    Best,
    Nik

  4. Gravatar ImageHeather Floyd Says:

    Unable to make it to these course this year.. Do you plan to release videos on umbraco.tv? That would be fantastic!

  5. Gravatar ImageMartin Kruse Says:

    I was too late and didn't get a seat at the courses. Of course I joined the waiting list but I could imagine that a lot of other people also did :D

    Why are there not more courses? It must be a profitable business and the demand is there..

  6. Gravatar ImageHartvig Says:

    Yes, we had around 40 on waiting list. While the courses usually always sell out (the level 1 have been sold out five times in a row), the interest this time was massive.

    We're considering making another round of courses in December, but it's a dangerous month where people usually have a lot of activities. More info coming on the blog very soon.

    But DO let us know via the waiting list if you're interested in a course in the beginning of Dec (tell us in the message field):
    http://umbraco.org/about/contact/CourseWaitingList

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