We believe that the best professional public training courses are run in a facility that's designed for the purpose - not from a hotel room or shared facility where there will be inevitable compromises. And we also believe that course should be written and presented by a professional in both the IT and training fields who's a staff member - not a contractor. We believe that a public course with more that 8 trainees compromises the service we can offer to each trainee - so 8 is our maximum - and we believe that courses should NOT be cancelled, even if there's just one student. On prices, we believe that the price quoted on the website should be what you pay (we're not into discounts), but that you shouldn't have to pay until you actually receive the product - the course.

Does this sound refreshingly different? Do try us out - we run public courses such as Learning to Program in Perl, PHP Programming, Python Programming and Deploying Apache and Tomcat every 2 months at our Melksham, Wiltshire training centre, and more specialist subjects from Tcl Basics to Linux Administration and from MySQL to Object Oriented Programming in PHP and C and C++ at least 3 times a year. And we're big enough to "practise what we preach" - our own training centre, our own staff, our own notes, fair pricing policies, and more.

If you're based in Shetland (or elsewhere in the ZE postcode area), you'll have a journey of about 675 miles to our training centre. Almost all of the courses are "niche products", and we believe you'll find it very hard to find the equivalent course in subjects like Python, Tcl/Tk, Ruby, C and C++, Apache/Tomcat, MySQL, PHP, Perl and Linux closer to home, even though it's a bit of a journey to our place.

The majority of our customers choose to stay over during their courses - accommodation and dining facilities in Melksham are excellent, varied and well priced. If you're coming from the Shetland area, you'll probably want to travel to Melksham the evening before the course starts - let us know if you're coming by public transport, and we can collect you from the station or arrange a taxi from the airport and take you to your hotel. We offer a similar return service at the end of the course - you should be able to catch a flight from Bristol that will get you home to Shetland late the same evening.

Our course index and diary provides a schedule of all our public courses, with links to course descriptions. We also have general information about our public courses available, and much more information in our resources centre. If you prefer, please feel free to email us for more information of call us by phone.

We can also run private courses at your office in Shetland. Quotation and further details available.