Christian started his adventures in Python while still at University studing his Masters in Electonic Engineering. Enjoying the clarity and beauty of the language he used it in the various places he has worked. The projects he has worked on systems ranged from single desktop applications through web applications through distributed systems. The domains covered in these included design validation, smart farming, image processing, education and fire detection. Further Christian has given training in advanced Django and spoken at PyCon. The bulk of his work currently revolves around architecting Django Applications.
Cancelled Talks:
Building Web Mapping Applications using GeoDjango and other FOSS GIS
GeoDjango is a web application development framework, extending the Django project to include support for GeoSpatial web application development. With GeoDjango you can create web-enabled forms that capture both text-based data and geographical data (e.g. polygons / lines / points).
The Django framework makes use of the model/view/controller (MVC) design pattern (which we will explain) to allow you to build a clean application architecture. Django also provides all the infrastructure to do object-relational mapping (ORM). ORM is used to model your data structures in a database backend and automatically save and retrieve objects from the database as they are needed. There are many other great features of Django which we will try to give you a flavour of during this tutorial course.
Through the tutorial we will build a simple Django application that integrates map services. To get the most out of this tutorial it would be good if you have had some exposure to Django.
