This is just the information I need - thanks so much! The courses sound like exactly what I'm after but it doesn't look like any are coming up in the near future. I have signed up to be notified if/when.
Personal training probably wouldn't make *as* much sense. We'll be training one person up as a maintenance developer to start with - we rely pretty heavily on a single external contractor right now and I'd love to free him up from minor bug fixes and feature enhancements to really concentrate on core platform extension. On Dec 29, 3:35 pm, James Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Marc, > > Chiming in on the Pragmatic Studio training, I just attended the Mastering > Ruby and Rails course (http://pragmaticstudio.com/mastering-ruby-rails) at > the beginning of December, and would highly recommend it to anyone looking > for advanced Ruby/Rails training. Chad and Dave are fantastic. They also > offer the more introductory Ruby on Rails course > (http://pragmaticstudio.com/rails), but you'd need to keep an eye out for > when/where that's being held next. Depending on the size of your team and > your budget, I know they offer personal training where they come to you as > well. > > That said, I agree with Nick that there are so many fantastic resources out > there so I'd recommend giving those a chance before going with classroom > training, especially on the introductory side. If you're interested in > these resources, let us know and I'm sure we'll all chime in with our > favorites. > > James > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Nick Zadrozny <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi Marc, > > > Welcome to SDRuby and to Rails! > > > There have definitely been some Ruby on Rails courses at UCSD extension in > > the past, but I'm not sure about how often they have been repeated. It looks > > like there isn't anything upcoming there. > > > This is a question that's gone around a couple of times. I'm sure plenty of > > folks will have good recommendations on resources for you. There are tons of > > good books out there, screencasts, and so on. But aside from self-education, > > I understand it's sometimes more time- and cost-effective to go for some > > kind of intense in-person training. > > > One thing we do have here in San Diego is a lot of very good Rails > > developers who would be happy to offer Ruby on Rails training, or already do > > in some capacity. There have even been talks from time to time about putting > > together a kind of "getting up to speed" seminar some time, if there was > > sufficient interest from the community. So there's always that. > > > As far as existing training seminars go, I've heard good things about the > > Pragmatic Studio Ruby on Rails training. I'm not entirely sure where those > > are located, though, or what kind of schedule they're offered on. I think we > > may have one or two people on the SDRuby list that have been to one of > > those, maybe they can chime in with more information. > > > Sorry, my answers are a bit vague on specifics, but hopefully they help get > > the discussion rolling a bit. > > > -- > > Nick Zadrozny > > > -- > > SD Ruby mailing list > > [email protected] > >http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > > -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
