Resources from the web site of Well House Consultants on the subject of Public Courses. We provide
Public courses run regularly at our Melksham,
Wiltshire training centre. If you've one or two
people who want to learn any of the subjects we
teach, a public course is likely to be cost effective.
We take a maximum of 8 trainees per course and
provide a very full hand of resources to ensure that
the courses provide a really intensive learning
experience that leaves you excited an knowledgable
on the subject covered.
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| 2965 | Testimonials - Well House Consultants Open Source courses
Many company web sites carry testimonials from satisfied customers - and indeed such plaudits are positive, re-assuring and helpful. We've not elected in the past to go down this route on our training courses, preferring instead to introduce prospective customers to people who have recently attended ... | 2013-02-23
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| 3071 | Well House Price list, January to March 2011
Public Training Courses
£350.00 - first day, first delegate
£250.00 - second and subsequent days for first delegate
£250.00 - all days for second and subsequent delegates
£60.00 - accommodation, per room per night for delegates
These prices are exclusive of VAT
See [here] for ... | 2013-02-23
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| 2558 | Happy new decade - and course and hotel prices for 2010
Happy New Decade, everyone! And thank you for your support and business through the last one. This year, we'll be celebrating the 10th Anniversary of our courses in Melksham, and we're now in our fourth year of running our own hotel and training centre. We look forward to welcoming many more guests at ... | 2013-02-23
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| 3924 | The bedrooms at Well House Manor
Last Sunday was... a Sunny day. And looking at the diary for Well House Manor, I noted that it was the last day until almost Christmas when all of our rooms were vacant during the day. So - what better chance to take some updated photographs?
Bedroom 1. A quiet room around the back of the property, ... | 2013-02-23
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| 4015 | Upcoming courses and availabiity
We have just ONE place remaining on the Python Programming course at Well House Manor next week ... and our overnight accommodation is full (email or call if you want to come / residential - there are other places to stay nearby!).
Our Perl courses the following week (starting 3rd March if you're new ... | 2013-02-22
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| 3983 | Upcoming courses at Well House Manor - Ruby, Python, Perl
Want to learn to program in Ruby, Python or Perl ... or to convert to one of those languages? Public training courses coming up soon in Melksham, Wiltshire ... from Well House Consultants.
Learning to program in Ruby - from Monday 11th February 2013 [link]
Ruby Programming - from Tuesday 12th February ... | 2013-01-19
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| 3964 | What is coming up from Well House in 2013 - public Open Source / IT courses.
We're running public IT courses in Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, Lua, C and C++. Each of the programming language courses is available in two different forms, depending on the delegate's starting level - there are:
• courses for newcomers to programming, which make no assumption of prior knowledge ... | 2013-01-05
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| 3911 | How well do you know Perl and / or Python?
Test your Perl knowledge
A simple little quiz that you may enjoy ... ten questions [here]. Questions good for any recent version of Perl 5 - say 5.10 and upwards, as the quiz tests your knowledge of some of the fundamentals.
The quiz was, of course, written for a purpose - to answer the question ... | 2012-11-10
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| 3903 | Python Programming class for delegates who have already self-taught the basics
It's quite possible to "self-teach" in Python, but to get the best from the language you need to appreciate its philosophy, the object oriented approach, and how the two work together, you really need something more formal. That way, you'll learn how to design, build, test and maintain code that performs ... | 2012-10-27
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| 3876 | October to December 2012 - Public Courses
We have public courses scheduled in the following subjects in the final quarter of 2012:
Apache / Tomcat deployment - 11th and 12th October [link]
Ruby and Rails - week commencing 22nd October - [link]
PHP - week commencing 4th November - [link]
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl / PHP/ Python) - week ... | 2012-10-13
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| 3829 | Training courses - rest of 2012, 2013 and January 2014
You might thinks that August is too early to be thinking about next year's plans. It isn't.
Some of our course run every 3 or 4 months, and that means that for a handful of them, there's only one date left in the diary now for the rest of the year. So it's become an "every August" task for me to take ... | 2012-08-11
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| 3823 | Know Python or PHP? Want to learn Perl too?
So you want to learn Perl ... (an excellent programming language for many tasks)
QUESTION: Have you programmed before?
NO:
If you're a newcomer to programming, then you'll need to learn about some of the principles involved, and will want a course which takes a more gentle pace as it goes through ... | 2012-08-05
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| 3637 | April, May and June 2012 - Public Open Source Programming Courses
Here is the schedule of public open source programming training course run by Well House Consultants from April to June 2012. All courses are scheduled again later in the year - click on the appropriate [details] links for later dates (and in due course that will include dates for 2013 and later).
All ... | 2012-03-10
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| 2333 | Formación, de los lenguajes de código abierto
Bienvenido. Nueva aquí? Somos los autores y proveedores de una amplia gama de cursos de formación de código abierto, con sede en Melksham, Inglaterra. Creemos en el cuidado de nuestros clientes y dar a la comunidad también. O no hemos enseñado usted, le invitamos a navegar nuestro material: ... | 2012-02-11
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| 3573 | New in Java 7 - and why we are not running public Java 7 courses
Java 7 (or Java 1.7, if you prefer that name) was launched last summer, with new / improved features including:
* switch on a String object
* try with resources allowing easier cleanup / reducing memory leak potential
* catch allowing multiple exceptions in the same block to avoid need to repair code
* ... | 2012-01-14
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| 3559 | Well House Consultants - Open Source Programming Courses for 2012
Our 2012 schedule of courses is online at http://www.wellho.net/course/index.html.
In 2012, we are offering public programming courses in:
• Lua (2 different courses, 8 different start dates)
• Perl (3 different courses, 6 different start dates)
• Tcl (2 different courses, 8 different ... | 2011-12-31
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| 3528 | December courses - PHP, Python, Perl - and a weekend Lua course
Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It's good and has a very open license so you can use it widely - even within your commercial products - at no cost. That's made it very popular across a wide range of applications.
We've offered public Lua courses for several years, ... | 2011-11-27
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| 3401 | Open Source Training Schedule - learn a programming language - in Autumn 2011 or 2012
The Well House Consultants public course training schedule is now online and bookable until the end of December 2012.
We'll continue to run our successful Open Source Programming Courses at our Melksham, Wiltshire, England training centre right through next year. In each of the programming languages ... | 2011-08-20
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| 3365 | Turning bright delegates into bright and knowledgable ones
"Bright" does not mean "Knowledgable". Almost without exception, our delegates are bright or very bright. But, by definition, they arrive with us for a training course with a lack of knowlegde. And it's a real joy to be able to pass on that knowledge to them - empowering them so that they leave knowledgable, ... | 2011-07-21
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| 3358 | Upcoming Programming courses ... High Summer, 2011
The following public Programming courses are scheduled to run over the next couple of months at Well House Manor in Melksham. In each case, the next available date is shown ... most courses, thought, will run again in the autumn, so if you've missed a date please click on one of the links anyway to ... | 2011-07-18
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| 3219 | How do I become a Linux System Administrator?
From my mailbox
My questions are about what would be the route for an absolute beginner to get all the certifications needed in order to be able to apply for a job and work as a Linux System Admin.
What about the time frame for completion of this training? I somehow find it really difficult to believe ... | 2011-03-28
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| 3205 | Open Source (Public) courses - PHP, Tcl, SQL, Python, C and C++ in Melksham, Wiltshire, UK
Here's a revised list of public courses running at our Melksham training centre for the rest of this month, and in April and May. There are a couple of additions, and we've also reallocated a couple of dates on which no-one was booked for private courses ... looking to fit everyone in.
The following ... | 2011-03-18
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| 3160 | Extra courses - Advanced PHP, MySQL and Lua
Here are some extra dates for your diary ...
21st March - Object Oriented PHP (1 day) [link]
22nd and 23rd March - PHP Techniques Workshop (2 days) [link]
27th and 28th April - MySQL [link]
Starting 31st May - Learning to program in Lua (4 days) [link]
Starting 1st June - Lua Programming (5 days) ... | 2011-02-08
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| 3129 | Extra courses - C and C++
We started the year with C and C++ courses on Monday, 3rd January ... and we were full. So we've added the following courses to our schedule:
Programming in C - Sunday 23rd and Monday 24th January 2011. Prior programming experience assumed.
C and C++ Programming - Sunday 23rd to Wednesday 26th January ... | 2011-01-13
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| 3078 | Royal Wedding. How William and Catherine have changed our schedule
April 29th, 2011 ... will you be watching the Royal Wedding, or would you prefer to be learning about mod_proxy_balancer linking the Apache httpd server to Apache Tomcat on one of our "Tomcat Courses?". We rather suspect that most of our customers would prefer to be in front of the TV ... or if they ... | 2011-01-01
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| 1929 | 2009 - Hotel, Meeting, Training Course prices
Well House Manor / Well House Consultants - prices for 2009 (valid from December 2008)
Bedrooms / Overnight
These prices are inclusive of VAT, at the new rate or 15%
Bedroom, Double Occupancy. 90 pounds per night
Includes continental breakfast for 2, internet access, all facilities of public areas ... | 2010-12-26
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| 3074 | Running a course ... what if the tutor isn't well?
Two days of a streaming cold ... and I've been sleeping and drinking (hot soft drinks!) about twice as much as usual. The extra sleep has cost blogging time ... but more important to get the customer service right for the people who immediately staying or I am training.
An interesting question, though, ... | 2010-12-04
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| 3021 | Courses for late 2010 and early 2011
As we head out of October and in to November, we cross a watershed; we've no longer got dates for each of our public courses before the end of the year, and we're answering queries / taking bookings for 2011 - it's been at a slow rate, it must be admitted, as many people tend not to plan for the next ... | 2010-10-30
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| 2942 | Open Source Programming - Training Course Schedule
I'm pleased to update you, as the autumn "season" starts, with our schedule of available, public, Open Source training courses for this autumn [2010]. Each course in the list below has a link leading you to the full description, and the further dates that it's scheduled through 2011 - so this page will ... | 2010-09-01
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| 2927 | Announcing 2011 Open Source Training courses - dates and prices
Here we are - still in the summer holidays, and we've turned our mind to the schedule of courses for next year - 2011 - already. It's [here].You may ask if this is incredibly early (after all, the Christmas trees aren't even out yet!) but autumn passes surprisingly quickly and some of our more specialized ... | 2010-08-20
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| 2928 | Public (scheduled) or private course? Book direct, or through a third party?
For most of the courses we give, we group up delegates from different companies - perhaps one or two in the pharmaceutical industry from Essex, a financial modeler from London, a seismological researcher from Saudi Arabia, a civil servant from Leeds and a web site designer from Wavertree, and we run ... | 2010-08-20
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| 2881 | Tailoring of courses to meet customers needs - how it works
We can - and do - tailor private courses (i.e. courses that we run for a single organization) in fact, we insist on asking a few questions about what use is going to be made of the subject and the background of the delegates - so you could say that every course is tailored. It makes the course much ... | 2010-07-30
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| 2839 | Software versions used - June 2010
On public courses, we normally use the the latest (or a very recent) stable version of the open source software that we teach. On private courses, we will use the same version, but that is subject to amendement on discussions with customers. As of today (30th June 2010), here is a snapshot of the main ... | 2010-06-30
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| 2736 | Perl Course FAQ
We run public Perl courses every 2 or 3 months at our Melksham, Wiltshire training centre, and private courses on site at customer offices at about the same frequency. Private Perl courses are tailored to customer's needs and may be almost anywhere - typically they're in the UK or Ireland, but occasionally ... | 2010-06-23
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| 2341 | Koulutus, Open Source tietokone kielillä
Uusi täällä? Olemme tekijöiden ja tarjoajien monenlaisia Open Source koulutusta, joka perustuu Melksham, Englannissa. Uskomme huolehtia asiakkaidemme ja antaa takaisin yhteiskunnalle liikaa. Onko olemme koulutettu olet, voit selata materiaali:
• artikkelit ratkaisu keskus
• vinkkejä ja päivitykset ... | 2009-08-09
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| 2340 | ldning, Open Source dator språk
Ny här? Vi och leverantörer av ett brett spektrum av Open Source-utbildning, som är baserad i Melksham, England. Vi tror på att ta hand om våra kunder och ge tillbaka till samhället också. Huruvida vi har tränat dig, du är välkommen att bläddra i vårt material:
• artiklar i lösningen ... | 2009-08-09
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| 2339 | Opplæring, Open Source datamaskinen språk
Ny her? Vi forfattere og leverer et bredt spekter av Open Source kurs, basert i Melksham, England. Vi tror på utkikk etter våre kunder og gi tilbake til samfunnet også. Om vi har trent deg, du er velkommen til å bla gjennom vår materiale:
• artikler i løsningen sentrum
• tips og oppdateringer ... | 2009-08-09
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| 2338 | Uddannelse, Open Source computer sprog
Ny her? Vi forfattere og udbydere af en bred vifte af Open Source-kurser, der er baseret i Melksham, England. Vi tror på søger efter vores kunder og give tilbage til samfundet også. Eller ej, vi har trænet dig, er du velkommen til at gennemse vores materiale:
• artikler i opløsningen centrum ... | 2009-08-09
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| 2337 | Opleiding, Open Source computertalen
Nieuw hier? We auteurs en aanbieders van een breed scala van Open Source opleidingen, gebaseerd op Melksham, Engeland. Wij geloven in de zorg op onze klanten en geven terug aan de gemeenschap ook. Of wij al dan niet hebt getraind u, u bent welkom om naar onze materiaal:
• voorwerpen in de oplossing ... | 2009-08-09
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| 2336 | Formação, Open Source computador línguas
Bem-vindo. Novo aqui? Nós somos os autores e fornecedores de uma vasta gama de cursos de formação de código aberto, baseado em Melksham, Inglaterra. Acreditamos em cuidar dos nossos clientes e devolver para a comunidade também. Quer ou não temos treinado, você está livre para navegar em nosso ... | 2009-08-09
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| 2335 | Ausbildung, die Open-Source-Sprachen
Willkommen. Neu hier? Wir sind Autoren und Anbieter einer breiten Palette von Open-Source-Schulungen, in Melksham, England. Wir glauben an die Betreuung unserer Kunden und die zurück an die Gemeinde zu. Unabhängig davon, ob wir nicht trainiert haben Sie, Sie sind willkommen, um unser Material:
• ... | 2009-08-09
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| 2332 | Formation, des langages Open Source
Bienvenue. Nouveau? Nous sommes les créateurs et les fournisseurs d'une large gamme de cours de formation Open Source, basée à Melksham, en Angleterre. Nous croyons à s'occuper de nos clients et de redonner à la communauté aussi. La question de savoir si nous avons formé, vous êtes invités à ... | 2009-08-09
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| 2334 | Formazione, Open Source computer lingue
Benvenuto. Nuovo qui? Siamo autori e dei fornitori di una vasta gamma di corsi di formazione Open Source, con sede a Melksham, Inghilterra. Crediamo nella cura dei nostri clienti e restituendo alla comunità troppo. Sia o non abbiamo addestrato voi, siete i benvenuti a navigare nel nostro materiale: ... | 2009-08-09
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| 2048 | Learning to program in PHP, Python, Java or Lua ...
... or in Ruby, Tcl, C, C++ or Perl
Are you new to computer programming? Is it so long since you programmed that you feel very rusty and would like to start again from basics? If you've said "yes" to either of these questions our new "Learning to program in ...." series of courses may be exactly what ... | 2009-02-22
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| 1035 | Longer hours and better value courses
Last year, we started at a quarter to ten on the first day of our courses, and ended at about half past four on the last day. And indeed, hours like those are standard for EVERY day at some other establishments. How long lunch takes can be a significant factor too!
This year, we're starting daily ... | 2009-01-04
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| 1968 | Review of 2008
The last day, of the last month. So a good day to look back to 2008.
On the training side, it's been "steady as she goes".
Our public courses (link to 2009 schedule) have been running all year at Well House Manor. New courses in Lua Programming and a more advanced PHP techniques Workshop were added ... | 2008-12-31
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| 1857 | November and December Public Course Schedule
It's only a couple of days since we turned the clocks back, but already my weekday time is fully spoken for up to Christmas - with bookings on all of these public courses so they're guaranteed runners (remember - we never cancel a course once you've booked it!)
November 2008 Python Programming [Link]Monday ... | 2008-10-28
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| 1836 | Next in the sequence - courses next year (2009)
Here's a sequence of numbers. 3, 7, 7, 4, 2, 6, 4, 1, 5. What are the following three numbers?
Quite an interesting puzzle, but it's a sequence of numbers I came across this morning ... and the following three were 3, 7 and 5 I'll tell you the trick of the sequence at the end of this article!
I have ... | 2008-10-12
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| 1751 | Public Training Course Dates until July 2009
It may still be the summer holidays, but we're already planning our courses for next year! You'll find that our main course index now lists public courses until the end of July 2009, and that each of the individual course descriptions also lists dates for the next 12 month.
We have also updated our ... | 2008-08-13
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| 1693 | July to December 2008 - Open Source training schedule
Highlights - a new Lua class, a new PHP Techniques course to help you make the very best of your PHP base web site, and additional Perl and Tcl courses added in to meet customer demand.
• All these public courses run at our Melksham, Wiltshire training centre
• No minimum number of delegates ... | 2008-08-13
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| 1615 | PHP training courses every month
Due to increased demand, we have increased the frequency of our PHP courses and we're now running at least one course on the subject every month.
* If you've never programmed before or written any HTML, start with a one day "Technology for PHP" the follow on to "PHP Programming".
* If you're familiar ... | 2008-04-18
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| 1565 | Languages compared - based on developer community size
Thanks to Leah for forwarding a link to Tiobe - "The Coding Standards Company" and their page showing the relative popularity of languages when measured by the size of the community for each. It's interesting to see how the programing languages we teach fit in to the ranking table.
1. Java 20%
2. C ... | 2008-03-06
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| 1414 | What we teach - expained for the non-technical
"Explain each of the subjects that we teach in a short paragraph written for mangers and booking / administrative people who aren't into the technology themselves" ... a challenge from Lisa which I have spend some time on today. And as I'm giving a Perl course tomorrow, what better way to get back into ... | 2007-11-20
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| 1420 | The Learning Perl crew, October 2007
All of our delegates are special, and 99% of them are a pleasure to teach - but I'll look back on last week's group with a particular fondness.
We've been open and running as a hotel now for a year, and - more and more - our public courses aren't just 9 to 5 events. Rather they're a chance to share ... | 2007-11-04
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| 933 | Course Joining package - updated
The moving of training to our new venue just 1km up the road in Melksham, and the extra facilities we've added has lead to a bevvy of updates to our web site - some immediately required by the move, and others caused by consequential alterations - extras that we can now provide and things we have to ... | 2006-11-20
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| 845 | Course scheduling and Geekmas - are they traditions yet?
How many years does it take to establish a tradition?
Can I say that this is the time of year when, traditionally, we schedule next year's training program? It's something that we've done here at Well House Consultants since the Summer of 2000, and prior to that it's something I used to be involved ... | 2006-08-26
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| 646 | PHP - London course, Melksham Course, Evening course
An answer to an enquirer ... I'm posting a part of this here as it compares and contrasts some of the options available if you want to learn PHP.
"""There's a variety of PHP course available, as you say ... and not everyone needs a course; some people do very well self-taught or from books.
I did a ... | 2006-06-05
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