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Using, managing and customising Bika LIMS. 6 - 17 August

A 2 week course by Bika Lab Systems in the use of Bika LIMS, its systems administration and programming principles. Includes 15 days accommodation, airport transfers, breakfast and lunch

What	Workshop
When	2012-08-06 08:30 to 2012-08-17 17:00
Where	Pringle Bay, South Africa
Contact Name	lemoene Smit
Contact Email	lemoene@bikalabs.com
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In Pringle Bay, East of Cape Town
on the Whale Coast 
in the Kogelberg Biosphere

Opt out day trips: 
Cape winelands Saturday 11 Aug
Walker Bay whale watching Sun 12

Whale watching image:
SAVenues.com Hermanus

Assistance in Spanish: Though the course is presented in English, Jordi Puiggené who did the Spanish and Catalan translations for Bika 3, is attending and will assist in Spanish where required

Maximum 5 trainees, accommodated in a guest house converted into training facility without restriction on individuals wanting to work informally. All lectures will be in hands-on workshop format with more than one lecturer available to assist trainees to apply lessons on their own installations

With all course material covered, trainees will be assisted with programming their own functional requirements to have development stubs in place that can be completed with, if they wish, continued assistance on the Bika developers list after the course

Trainees are encouraged to target their own objectives before the course starts to help us optimise the course to their full benefit

Cost € 4250 / $ 5250

1. Using Bika LIMS

lemoene Smit, Bika LIMS Analyst

Plone - LIMS as laboratory web portal
Workflow overview
Users, Roles, Groups and Authorisations
LIMS set-up and configuration
Bika Calendar
Client organisations and contacts
Analysis requests - LIMS building block
Advanced and automated analysis requests
Worksheets
Instrument interfacing
QC
Invoicing
Reports and queries

2. Bika LIMS Linux systems administration

Inus Scheepers, Bika Technical Director

Base o/s installation
User accounts & DSA keys
Mail, DNS, Apache
Plone Installation via unified installer
Buildout
Repozo scripts
Crontabs - adding timed backups
Monitoring
Troubleshooting
GitHub usage, contributing

3. Programming Bika

Anneline Sweetnam, Bika Development Manager
Campbell McKellar-Basset, Lead Bika 3 Developer

Linux & Windows. A case study will be used to illuminate the following topics:

Architecture: Zope Components, Bika package structure (zcml, subscribers, validators)
Development Environment: WingIDE, Debuggers (Firebug, Pdb, Wingdb)
Authorization, Permissions, Roles
Workflow: Set-up, Permissions, Guards
Versioning: Function, Definition, Logging, CMFEditions, plone.app.iterate
Indexing: Philosophy, Catalog, Metadata, Creation, Access, collective.indexing, AdvancedQuery, Tuning
Customization: Language - i18n, CSS, Site properties and branding, Skins, Nav tree
Javascript: Registries, Caching, Json
Outputs: Email, SMS, Pdf, Csv
Instrument interfacing: Import, Export
Bika installation: Setup handlers
Coding standards

Prerequisites

Basic Linux knowledge
Basic object orientated programming knowledge, preferably Python
Trainees bring own laptops

Pringle Bay

Whale Coast

Kogelberg Biosphere

Cape wines and vineyards. Stellenbosch

Bika Lab Systems

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