Private courses can be held on site at your office (or at other venues) - all you do is provide the room and trainees; we provide the tutor, training systems, manuals, projectors, etc. Up to 15 trainees per course. Further details of Private Courses are available elsewhere on this site.

We usually tailor private courses to meet your exact requirements, but it's likely that such courses would be based on the following standard formulae:

Linux Administration is a one day course on which we cover fundamental Linux administration. This day is targeted at people who will be managing web servers and covers service provision, basic networking, user and group accounts, installing software and backups.

Linux Web Server. A two day course covering the installation, configuration and maintenance of an Apache httpd server under Linux and associated technologies such as Perl, PHP, Python, MySQL, XML and XSLT.

Deploying LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP is a four day course covering the technologies involved in installing, configuring and supporting a web application written in Perl or PHP. Topics include Internet and web structure and addressing, HTML, an introduction to Perl and PHP, Linux, XML, Apache and SQL.

Deploying Apache and Tomcat is a two day course covering the technologies involved in installing, configuring and supporting a web application written in Java under Tomcat ana Apache. We also offer a longer course Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix which may be more suitable is you're not already familiar with Java / SQL / HTML / XML and web site structure.

Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix is a five day course covering the technologies involved in installing, configuring and supporting a web application written in Java. Topics include Internet and web structure and addressing, HTML, Java itself, Servlets and JSP, XML, Apache and Tomcat, SQL and JDBC. We also offer a shorter course Deploying Apache and Tomcat covering the deployment and support of just Apache and Tomcat.

Linux Basics is a one day course covering the basics of the Linux operating system for users - the topics you'll need to know if you're uploading and / or managing a web site that's running on a Linux server.

Java Programming for the Web is a five day course covering the Java language itself for those who have programmed before, and the more commonly used standard classes such as String, Utilities, IO, as well as Servlet, Applet and JSP topics. Also covers Regular Expressions and other Java2 5.0 enhancements. If you'll be responsible for deploying web applications in Java, you might also like to look at Deploying Apache and Tomcat. Attendees who will be using Java in larger, threaded or distributed applications will want to consider Java Extra in addition.

PHP Programming is a four day course that covers server-side Web programming using the PHP language. As well as the fundamentals of the language, Web subjects such as cookies and session control are covered, and interfacing to SQL databases, XML and dynamic graphics.

Perl Programming is a five day Perl programming course. It covers the major features of the language and their use for newcomers.

Using Perl on the Web teaches you the application of Perl on the worldwide web. The course assumes a knowledge or Perl as taught on our Perl Programming course, and extends your knowledge so that you can use Perl to glue applications to the internet.

Programming in C is a two day course that covers the fundamentals of the C language for trainees with prior programming experience. Please contact us if you have no prior programming experience, and please look at our C and C++ Programming course if you want to learn C and C++.

C++ for C Programmers is a two day course that covers the fundamentals of the C++ language for trainees with prior programming experience of the C language. This course introduces you to the principles of OO programming and how they're implemented in C. Please consider our C and C++ Programming course instead if you do not have prior knowledge of C.

MySQL is a two day course covering the structure of database engines and how to write database applications using SQL. As well as SQL itself, this course covers the installation and administration of MySQL, database and table design, security, and using MySQL from Perl and/or PHP and/or Java as appropriate for the trainee group.

At Well House Consultants, we're also experienced in Solaris, Mac OS X, Motif, FrameMaker, HTML, XML and other technologies. Although we don't have current training material on these, please do ask us if you have training requirements which include elements on these subjects.