MadLab - Manchester’s pioneering creative and digital community space - have announced the “Omniversity of Manchester”, a new series of professional training courses at the MadLab, lead by some of the sharpest minds and most cutting-edge practitioners in digital and future-looking sectors in the country.
“It’s about giving you the edge in the skills that will be in demand next year, providing insider information in where digital platforms are headed, and connecting you with others developing those skills” said Dave Mee from Omniversity.
The courses will range from professional development and cutting edge practices to more esoteric skills. Whether it’s learning about Arduinos and the Internet of Things, mobile platform development for SAP, Android or iPad development best practices, the Omniversity will have a course to help people upskill and develop abilities which will make them stand out in the workplace and open new opportunities.
Hwa Young, from MadLab, said, “The MadLab has spent over a year building up the country’s largest network of like minded technologists, engineers, developers, creatives, artists and alpha geeks.
“We’ve already helped create new employment in the city through our regular evening programmes and we’re building on this to create training based not on academic models but practical and commercial lead experiences and insight.”
The line-up of programme leaders includes published O’Reilly authors, maintainers of core Arduino libraries, award-winning international VJs, co-founders of WordPress, and HTML5 thought-leaders.
“Its a wide-ranging mix” said Dave “but we know nowhere else where you can spend a few days learning from people at the top of their field for the same price as a day trip.”
The next Omniversity course, ‘Ruby & Rails BootCamp’ is a three day course focusing on developing high quality web applications using this renowned web framework. The course will take participants through the Ruby language, building Rails applications, managing your database with migrations and also exploring ActiveRecord, AJAX, JavaScript, REST, TDD and more.
This workshop is lead by Tekin Suleyman, who has been building & deploying web applications with Ruby and Rails for over half a decade, and Ric Roberts who founded the popular JavaScript blog DailyJS along with the company Swirrl, and also writes for the popular Ruby Inside blog.
Other available courses include Web Programming with SAP’s Internet Communication Framework, and our four part Web Design Foundations course, which is designed to be flexible both for novice’s and experianced web designers.
The course listings are regularly updated at on the Omniversity calendar page and bookings can be made at www.omiversity.madlab.org.uk/booking.
