Training

I am the architect and author of virtually all of Movable Type's documentation online, and I continue to provide services to Six Apart in order to expand their efficacy. In addition, I have provided training services to some of Six Apart's largest customers and can instruct individuals and teams on a variety of topics. Training services can be provided on-site or off according to each client's needs and schedule.

Courses

User Training - This 1 day course will provide authors, editors and administrators with the basics of using and administering their Movable Type CMS. 
Subjects include: site administration, content creation, pages, user administration and permissioning, the basics of site modification and customization, an overview of 3rd party plugins, and a comprehensive review of the entire application and what it can and cannot do.

Designer Training - This 1 or 2 day course provides designers with the tools and knowledge they need to become adept at designing and customizing web sites powered by Movable Type. Students finishing this course will have a strong foundation of knowledge in Movable Type's templating language, template module caching, template sets and theme creation, commonly used third party plugins, and site/publishing optimization.

Developer Training - This 1 or 2 day course teaches any developer how to build plugins to extend the core Movable Type application. Subjects include the Movable Type Registry, working with Movable Type objects, building custom data types, callbacks and events, working with jQuery and Movable Type's Javascript, creating new screens in the Movable Type application, and much, much more.

Operations Training - This 1 day course teaches system administrators on how to host and operate Movable Type. Students leaving the course will have strong understanding of how to optimize Movable Type, the Movable Type Publish Queue, and how to build out Movable Type clusters and network architectures that scale.

Movable Type and Perl for PHP Developers - this 1 day course is designed for PHP developers wishing to learn the basics of Perl, but most importantly how to apply their knowledge of PHP to developing web sites in Movable Type.

Learning Perl - this 5 day course can take virtually any person with a very basic understanding of scripting/programming and teach them the basics of the Perl programming language. This course is ideal for companies wishing to teach engineering, QA and operations teams the basics of the language and to prepare them for other courses designed to teach them the basic of developing custom applications and plugins for Movable Type.

Custom Package - Clients are also free to build a custom curriculum based upon their specific needs.

Full course outlines available upon request.