[portland] [OT] Python-to-iPhone class

[Dan Grigsby]

There's a couple of tickets left for our Web-to-iPhone programmer  
class on Thursday and Friday of this week if you want to attend --  
it's $899 with last-minute rush pricing and the "python" discount  
code.  Details: http://is.gd/4Rnvz


On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Dan Grigsby wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It's Dan Grigsby of the iPhone dev community site Mobile Orchard.   
> This is an off-topic post, but I'm hoping my Minneapolis dev  
> community/python credentials are transferable to Portland.  Anyway:
>
> I'll be teaching the Mobile Orchard Beginning iPhone Programming  
> Workshop in Portland on November 13-13.  Class synopsis:  Python  
> programmer (or PHP, Ruby, Java or .NET) to iPhone programmer in two  
> days.
>
> Intensive two day class.  Leave with seven compact, but complete  
> iPhone apps that use Core Location, Core Data, navigation UIs,  
> shake, undo/redo, web services (actually, JSON from a Python App  
> Engine app) and hybrid web/native UIs. Memory management,  
> properties, protocols and categories exercises.  3.0SDK.  Small  
> class size, experienced instructor. From Mobile Orchard, the #1  
> iPhone developer news site and podcast.
>
> Details/registration:
> http://mobileorchard.com/training
>
> I'm part of Minneapolis' "PyMnTos" Python group.  And I run, help  
> run, or used to run or help-run the Minneapolis BarCamp, DemoCamp,  
> Ruby group and StartupCamp.  I'm hugely fond of local community  
> groups, and when I get folks active in these groups at the classes  
> they're invariable the kind that I like.  So I'm happy to knock a  
> couple of hundred bucks off the price; use the "python" discount  
> code.  With the discount code and early bird price the cost is $799,  
> down from the usual $1200.
>
> Hoping my good-standing and contributions to the dev, iPhone, and  
> startup communities offsets any feather-ruffling that me pitching  
> the class to the list might elicit.  In addition to keeping my kids  
> in new shoes and fruit snacks, the class generates the income that  
> enables work on the site and podcast full-time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
> dan at mobileorchard.com
> 612 423 3694