Presentation at Harvard
A couple of weekends ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at a two-day Ajax / Web development seminar at Harvard University with fellow Django creator Simon Willison and Dojo wizard Alex Russell. The event, "Deep Ajax," was put on by the Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).
The Django presentation went well, and I've posted the slides online:
- PDF file (229 KB)
- PowerPoint file (221 KB)
It's an intro to Django with a focus on how to do Ajax. It's more of a typical PowerPoint presentation than we Django guys usually do. Code snippets, yes. Funny pictures, not so much.
These presentations are available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Feel free to use them (or snippets of them) in your own presentations.
Posted by Adrian Holovaty on November 2, 2006
Comments
Ross Poulton November 2, 2006 at 7:18 p.m.
For some reason, as simple as it is I always enjoy going through the Django presentations you've done. Is it possible to get audio for any of the presentations from that weekend? Since it's a pay-to-attend event I'm doubting it, but it'd be good public-transport listening.
Ross
PS: That presentation needs more "Welcome to Kansas" signs :D
Paul November 3, 2006 at 8:29 a.m.
Do you post advance notice of these events/appearances anywhere? I might have been able to convince my boss to send me to this one :)
Dan November 3, 2006 at 8:43 a.m.
This is a really good presentation, I was wondering how to implement AJAXy stuff in django. I also second what Paul said.
Brian Cain November 3, 2006 at 10:51 a.m.
There's audio and video from the "Snakes and Rubies" event. Unfortunately, I don't remember AJAX being covered.
Garth Kidd November 5, 2006 at 2:20 p.m.
Great presentation. I'll have to check out the default XML serialisation, for sure.
Anyone know of a way to handle the more server-intense form of AJAX in which a persistent HTTP connection is used to funnel events from server to browser and back?
Julian Yap November 9, 2006 at 12:33 a.m.
Nice slides!
I really like how Django works with Python. I like the non-'Domain Specific Language' way it works.
It means that if you know Python, all you need to do is grasp the concepts of Django and you know it.
.. As for Rails. Just because you know Rails doesn't mean you know Ruby.
Thanks for releasing Django to the community and good luck with the upcoming Django book!
Igor Guerrero November 12, 2006 at 10:31 p.m.
Very cool slides.
This is my favorite part: But if you really wanted to...
Please another Django vs RubyOnRais presentation, will be great to the people known who's the men!!!
Ian Ward November 24, 2006 at 10:29 p.m.
Thank you Adrian, I will borrow many of these slides for a future talk.
Olivier Mengué November 27, 2006 at 4:10 a.m.
Thanks for this slides.
I did use them as an inpiration for a presentation of the ORM part of Django at the French Perl Workshop in Paris this week-end.
My slides (in french) are here : http://o.mengue.free.fr/blog/2006/11/...
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canen November 2, 2006 at 2:16 p.m.
Thanks. Presentations on Django are always nice to see.