Category: Training

  • One-day birthday sale — on July 14th, get 47% off my courses, books, and subscriptions

    Today is my birthday! To celebrate, I’m offering a one-day 47% sale on many of my products: My upcoming live classes (on functional Python, advanced Python objects, and decorators) are all 47% off Practice Makes Python (developer package), with 50 exercises to help you improve your Python, is 47% off Practice Makes Regexp (consultant package),…

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  • Data science + machine learning + Python course in Shanghai

    Data science is changing our lives in dramatic ways, and just about every company out there wants to take advantage of the insights that we can gain from analyzing our data — and then making predictions based on that analysis. Python is a leading language (and some would say the leading language) for data scientists.…

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  • Announcing: Trainer Weekly, practical advice for technical trainers

    Do you offer technical training?  Or are you just interested in becoming a trainer? I’ve been doing technical training for several years now, and it has become the main thing that I do.  I love it, and encourage everyone to look into it as a potential career (or part of a career). I’ve created an…

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  • Announcing: An online community for technical trainers

    Over the last few years, my work has moved away from day-to-day software development, and more in the direction of technical training: Helping companies (and individuals) by teaching people how to solve problems in new ways.  Nowadays, I spend most of my time teaching courses in Python (at a variety of levels), regular expressions, data…

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  • Another free regexp Q&A webinar!

    The last Webinar I did, with Q&A about regular expressions, was great fun — so much, that I’ve decided to do another one. So, if you have questions (big or little) about regular expressions in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and/or PostgreSQL, sign up for this free Webinar on Monday, April 11th: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/regexpqa2 If you already have…

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  • Free Webinar: Regexp Q&A

    To celebrate the publication of my new ebook, Practice Makes Regexp, my upcoming Webinar (on March 22nd) is all about regular expressions (“regexps”) in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL, as well as the Unix “grep” command. Unlike previous Webinars, in which I gave a presentation and then took Q&A, this time will be all about…

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  • Yes, you can master regular expressions!

    Announcing: My new book, “Practice Makes Regexp,” with 50 exercises meant to help you learn and master regular expressions. With explanations and code in Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL. I spend most of my time nowadays going to high-tech companies and training programmers in new languages and techniques. Actually, many of the things I teach…

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  • My interview with the Freelance Transformation podcast

    My interview with Matt Inglot, on the Freelance Transformation podcast, about how technical training is a great business for many consultants, is live!  If you’ve ever wanted to know about technical training, how that business works, how you can get started, or some of my strategies for working with clients, then this is your chance:…

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