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<img name="be"> <title text="Our Lady's Church, Brugge, Belgium" /> Whether you work for a small company, a multi-national, or a government or international organisation, we can run a MySQL, PHP, Python or Perl training course for you at your office in Belgium. You just provide a meeting room and the trainees - we provide one workstation per trainee for the duration of the course, and all the other necessary elements. If you have just one or two trainees who need to learn a subject, have them join our public courses in the UK - if they fly direct from Brussels to Bristol, we'll meet them there and make the whole thing very easy.[br][br] This picture is of a stained glass window inside Our Lady's Church in Brugge. The church, parts of which date back to the 13th century, has a massive tower 122 metres tall. This is second in Belgium only to Antwerp Cathedral which has a tower a metre taller. The picture was taken by Caitlinn Davison, and is reproduced here with her kind permission. The copyright is retained by Caitlinn. </img> <img name="mq"> <title text="The Euro" /> We accept payment by bank transfer, cheque, and credit card, and we can also take cash, though that's quite unusual. We can invoice you in Pounds, Euros or US Dollars, and accept payment in any of the three currencies. This picture shows Euro notes and coins, and was taken when they were newly in circulation in January 2001. We were in Austria for a short mid-winter break when the Euro came into circulation, and we admired the way the conversion was done with very few problems. </img> <img name="bkstack"> <title text="Open Source Library" /> Our library includes over 700 volumes on Open Source programming languages and related subjects. It's available to trainees who attend courses at our Melksham, Wiltshire training centre, and to others too by appointment. We keep details of all of our books on this web site, so that you can search through and find the most appropriate book to meet your needs ... then link to an online ordering site ... </img> <img name="wp"> <title text="The sky's the limit" /> Well House Consultants was formed in 1995 as a "shell" company to allow its principal (Graham Ellis) to give Solaris training courses under contract. We introduced our first Open Source course - 2 days on Perl - in 1996, after several contacts asked us if we ran courses. Initially the course was scheduled every 4 months, but it rapidly became more frequent; within 3 years, Graham was no longer presenting Solaris courses - he simply didn't have time. We opened our own training centre in September 2000 and now have a full program of Perl, PHP, Java, Tcl/Tk and MySQL courses running at the training centre and on customer's sites. What will the next five years bring? We don't know; five years ago our current success was unimaginable - for the next five, perhaps the sky's the limit. </img> <img name="lib"> <title text="Reference books in our library" /> The Well House Consultants library, available for reference during training courses, includes some 400 volumes on such as Perl and PHP that we teach, and associated topics like Linux, XML, AND HTML. </img> <img name="wt"> <title text="Communication by cable" /> We teach Open Source programming languages which are heavily used in the implementation of network solutions on the Internet and on intranets too. Our own training centre has a megabit link to the Internet, and all our systems are connected via "Cat 5" cables or wireless networking to IEEE 802.11b. </img> <img name="tools"> <title text="A disconnected wire" /> We chose this image of a disconnected wire to have on our error page - the most common error on any web site is "page not found", also known as "error 404". We find some amusement in the fact that our training centre is at No. 404, The Spa; the picture is actually from No. 404, which we have restored over the past three years. </img> <img name="ctco"> <title text="Melksham Training Centre" /> Our training centre is located in an old Georgian building on the outskirts of Melksham, built around 1814 when local businessmen planned to turn the town into a Spa town to rival Bath. Although the theory was that "the waters must do you good because they taste so bad", there were few takers and the three lodging houses that had been built were turned to other uses. There's still accommodation available in The Spa, though, so if you come here on a training course you'll be able to stay just a stone's throw away. </img> <img name="jp"> <title text="A cup of coffee and some coffee beans" /> Surprisingly, "Java" isn't an acronym; it was picked as a nice name for the programming language and virtual machine environment. Java coffee provides a nice visual image for use with our pages that relate to the Java language. </img> <img name="rc"> <title text="A piece of jewellery with a ruby inset" /> There are lots of (dreadful) puns that will tell you that Ruby's a gem of a language. It is indeed such a gem, taking the best of Perl 5 as the basis for a truly object oriented language; alas, that doesn't excuse the dreadful pun. </img> <img name="fly"> <title text="Aircraft Engine and Propeller" /> We use the aircraft engine and propeller picture for our page about Bristol Airport, and also for our pages on the MySQL relational database. The MySQL daemon is the engine behind many on line databases; although it's not the most sophisticated of RDBM systems it's rugged, fast and reliable - key qualities which mean that we've see huge growth in MySQL interest recently. </img> <img name="lp"> <title text="A floppy disc" /> Floppy disc technology is mature, but still very much used. We use a floppy disc to represent Perl on our "Learning to program in Perl" course; although Perl is a mature language, it's still a fundamental plank for many computer systems. Perhaps when Perl 6 is with us, we should change this image to a writable DVD. </img> <img name="ph"> <title text="Cylinders on a Shay steam locomotive" /> The use of PHP has doubled every six months for the past two years, and it's now really "the power behind the web" for so many web sites; even this page was generated from XML source by a piece of PHP. The Shay locomotives on the Cass Scenic Railroad in West Virginia, an old logging railway, propel their trains up to Bald Knob from behind - a magnificent site, and we have chosen them as our motif for PHP. </img> <img name="equ"> <title text="Equipment in our training centre" /> Each trainee on our courses is given a laptop computer for their exclusive use throughout the course; we find that laptops can be conveniently lifted to one side during lectures, with trainees getting an unobscured view of the projection screen and tutor. Our laptops are all Internet connected, and feature Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X operating systems. </img> <img name="tb"> <title text="A feather" /> Tcl - the Tool Control Language is often referred to as "tickle", and what better graphic to represent this than a feather? </img> <img name="kbd"> <title text="A keyboard and newspaper" /> Our training centre opens its doors an hour before courses start each morning, and trainees are welcome to come early, have a coffee, read the newspaper, and check their email. </img> <img name="pl"> <title text="Bricks with letters" /> There's a very large number of bricks in this picture - a large job to put them all together into a text wall. Perl is an excellent language from processing text, and our "Perl for Larger Projects" course concentrates on the more advanced topics of the language that are especially relevant if you have huge quantities of data to handle, or are required to write a major application in the language. </img> <img name="awayhome"> <title text="London and a Highland croft" /> If you have a group of 4 or more trainees who need the same training at the same time, it'll cost you less to have us come to you to present the course. We bring all the equipment that's needed - you just provide the students and the room. The graphic shows a view of the Battersea Dog's home which was visible out of the training room window on the first on site PHP course that we ran, and a Highland croft - a picture we took when travelling to Isle of Skye to give our second on site PHP course. PHP was used to merge the images, of course ;-) </img> <img name="oldspa"> <title text="Historic map of The Spa, Melksham" /> Our Melksham Training Centre is located on the outskirts of the town of Melksham, Wiltshire. This old (circa 1888) map shows "The Spa" as it then was - a cluster of Georgian Buildings in the countryside on the Melksham to Devizes road. </img> <img name="trl"> <title text="Train arriving at Melksham" /> If you're coming on a training course by train, there's a station in Melksham. The train arrives at 09:11 in the morning, in good time for our 09:45 first day start, and on the last day we'll finish in time for you to leave on the 17:07. Have a ride in our ex-London Taxi from and to the station, with our compliments. </img> <img name="gje"> <title text="Graham Ellis" /> Your tutor for Well House Consultants training courses. We believe that for a company to be taken seriously online, they should full contact details - a postal address, phone number and a staff contact name as a minimum. We've gone one step further - we've provided you with a photo of the trainer as well. </img> <img name="pp"> <title text="A pearl" /> What other graphic could we possibly use to accompany information about our Perl training courses, and the Perl language in general? </img> <img name="mouse"> <title text="A mousemat" /> Perl and Java, PHP and Tcl, MySQL and Ruby ... all make use of Regular Expressions, and Regular Expressions are always a subject of great interest to trainees on our courses. We've had "Regular Expression Mouse Mats" made - a sort of quick reference card to Regular Expressions that are always to hand - and if you attend a course, there's one for you to take with you when you leave. The mouse mats are also available for sale through this site if you're desperate to get one, but already know your PHP or Ruby! </img> <img name="brochure"> <title text="Joining instructions folder" /> All training course bookings are confirmed by post with a folder of joining instructions. We enclose a map showing you where to come, details of local hotels in case you don't live nearby (and not many of our customers do!), and a description of what's on the course. We also confirm the price and dates just in case someone's ordered the wrong course! </img> <img name="fh"> <title text="Opentalk logo" /> With most training courses, you get your instruction and that's it - if you're very lucky, the tutor might email you with answers to questions that you asked during the course and he was unable to answer, but usually the last of him you'll hear from him is "Thank you and goodbye". We realise that students have questions that come up when they're putting what they have learnt into practice, and so we've set up the Opentalk forum. You're encouraged to post questions there after your course, and your tutor checks in to the forum at least once every 24 hours and leaves answers. Being a public forum, anyone can post ... Opentalk's gathering a momentum of its own, with discussions from past students on subjects ranging from subroutine prototypes in Perl to why Computer Based training really hasn't taken off. </img> <img name="mix"> <title text="Patchwork of other graphics" /> Pieces of various images that we use to represent the subjects on which we provide training - we use this image on pages that cover information about our training in more than one subject. </img> <img name="co"> <title text="Shaking hands" /> Repeat business is much easier to "close" than a new account - so it's very much in any supplier's interest to look after his customers so that they will come back if they want more. We're constantly astonished at how many companies ignore what seems, to us, to be common sense. In our computer training business, you might think that there's not much repeat business - but you'd be wrong; although we don't expect to see the same person again on the same course, our trainees often come back for other training, and they often recommend us to their colleagues. </img> <img name="res"> <title text="Wireless Networking" /> We provide a laptop computer for each trainee to use during their courses with us, and you're also welcome to bring your own computer along and connect in via our training network, which supports both wireless (IEEE 802.11b) and Cat 5 connections. </img> <img name="ctc"> <title text="Painting of Melksham Training Centre" /> A friend of ours, who lives and works in Hawaii, painted our training centre in oils ... just from a photograph he found on the web. Thank you Winston, we're most touched. The painting hangs, pride of place, in our training centre entrance. </img> <img name="pw"> <title text="A golden pearl" /> A pun on "Perl" - the language that's still used for the majority of server side web applications. </img> <img name="courseindex"> <title text="Alarm clock" /> For course schedule and diary pages, we use this image of an alarm clock </img> <img name="imlib"> <title text="Image library" /> Most of the images on this web site and in our "Of Course" newsletter are taken using our Sony Mavica digital camera, which burns the pictures onto a mini-CD. We edit / crop adjust the images using various software on Apple Mac computers, and upload them to our web server which runs Linux. A few of the images are copyright-free stock art, but we only use such images where they are clearly representational rather than photographic; if you see a picture that purports to be of a trainee of ours, it IS a picture of a trainee of ours! </img> <img name="it"> <title text="Italian training" /> We have trained students from Italy on our courses, and can present courses on site anywhere in Italy too. Such courses would be presented in English. clock </img> <img name="at"> <title text="Austrian training" /> We've driven to Austria in the past, and we've also collected trainees from Austria at Bristol Airport. If you require our specialist training, we're quite happy to have you come to us, or to come to you. </img> <img name="us"> <title text="Training in the USA" /> Business has taken us from Miami to Chicago, from San Diego to New York, and up to Alaska - with many places in between. In the past four months, the author of these notes has been to the USA twice, and he has another visit scheduled for next month. If you have just one or two people who need training, why not come to us? Our training centre is less than two hours from London's Heathrow airport, air fares are cheap, and we'll collect you from the airport. </img> <img name="fr"> <title text="Training in France" /> We're based in Southern England - which means we can reach France more easily than we can reach parts of Scotland. We're very happy to train in France (and have done so in the past), but please note that we have to present our courses in English. </img> <img name="de"> <title text="Training in Germany" /> Our tutor has worked from Lake Constance and Munich in the South up to Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Monchengladbach. He's quite happy to repeat any of these experiences, or to travel to new parts such as Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin. If you have just one or two trainees for a course, fly to Bristol or Southampton and we'll pick you up from the airport. </img> <img name="ch"> <title text="Swiss training" /> Graham worked in Zurich and near Berne for some months a number of years ago, and would be happy to renew his acquaintance with the country. Switzerland is the original home of the Worldwide Web, which originated at CERN, Geneva. </img> <img name="ie"> <title text="Training in Ireland" /> Over the past few years, many high tech companies have set up their European bases in the Dublin, Cork and Galway areas, and the trip across to give on site training courses has become a familiar one to us; things have slowed there a little of late, but we can still find our way from Rosslare or Dublin Docks to CityWest, Blanchardstown or Ballycoolin without a map. </img> <img name="nl"> <title text="Dutch training" /> Trainees often visit us from the Netherlands to attend our courses, and we're more than happy to collect them at Bristol Airport off the flights from Amsterdam. If you have 4 or more trainees requiring the same course at the same time, let us know and we'll come to you. </img> <img name="no"> <title text="Training in Norway" /> We can come and train you in Norway - we've done so before in the Oslo area, and I'm sure we'll be doing so again in the future. With the arrival of the budget airlines, flights from Scandinavia to England are now available at a sensible price - if there are just one or two of you who need PHP or Perl training, why not come to our training centre to the West of London? </img> <img name="dk"> <title text="Training in Denmark" /> We're quite happy to provide training in Denmark - indeed we have passed through the country in the past on our way to work in Norway and Sweden. </img> <img name="es"> <title text="Spain - training courses" /> On site courses can be run (in English) anywhere in mainland Spain - we bring everything, you just provide the students and the room. We can also run courses on the islands, but we may not be able to bring all the equipment with us if we have to fly. </img> <img name="pt"> <title text="Training in Portugal" /> Just give us the chance, and we'll come and train you in Portugal. If you don't have a group, fly to England and come on our public course at Melksham - we can pick you up from the airport before the course if you wish. </img> <img name="se"> <title text="Training in Sweden" /> At one time, I spent so much time on business in Sweden that I considered learning the language. Alas, you folks speak such good English that you shame me! If you require Tcl, PHP, or Perl training please let me know - I would love to visit Helsingborg or Arborga, Gothenburg or Stockholm again, or to see pastures anew. </img> <img name="au"> <title text="Hobart, Tasmania" /> The city of Hobart is situated at the mouth of the Derwent River, a relatively short river but wide and deep in its estuary. Urbanisation is evident for some considerable distance along both sides of this rift valley which was formed by faulting. Just several kilometres to the south-west of the city, the land is heavily forested and mountainous, rising steeply to Mount Wellington (1270m). This graphic is from the free map and satellite image page of Geoscience Australia - http://www.auslig.gov.au/download/images.htm </img> <img name="ca"> <title text="Vancouver Skyline" /> Attending the first "Perl Whirl" took us to Vancouver, and onto a cruise ship right up to Alaska. That's a far cry from Quebec, Ottawa and Toronto - each a city that I have visited on business and love to return to. </img> <img name="yp"> <title text="Burmese Python" /> We really had to choose a Python to illustrate this programming language, didn't we? The Burmese Python may grow to more 7 metres long and weigh nearly 100kgs. In the wild, they're classified as an endangered species but there are more than can be handled in captivity, as people have a habit of buying pets that then become "too large" for them. The Python programming language is object oriented, allowing you to start small and then expand your application suite by re-using classes, modules and packages. </img> <img name="hbx"> <title text="Books on PHP" /> Our library comprises some 400 technical books, of which about 40 are on PHP. Nearly the same number cover MySQL. Books are available for trainees use during courses, and former trainees are welcome back to use the library at a later date too. </img> <img name="jbx"> <title text="Java Books" /> Our library comprises some 400 technical books, of which about 70 are on Java and related subjects such as Ant, Servlets and JSP. Books are available for trainees use during courses, and former trainees are welcome back to use the library at a later date too. </img> <img name="pbx"> <title text="Books on Perl" /> Our library comprises some 400 technical books, of which about 90 are Books are available for trainees use during courses, and former trainees are welcome back to use the library at a later date too. </img> <img name="sbx"> <title text="SQL and MySQL Books" /> Our library comprises some 400 technical books, of which about 40 are on SQL and MySQL. Many of the other books include sections on the use of MySQL from Perl, Java, PHP and Python. Books are available for trainees use during courses, and former trainees are welcome back to use the library at a later date too. </img> <img name="tbx"> <title text="Books on Tcl, Tcl/Tk and Expect" /> Our library comprises some 400 technical books, of which about 20 are on Tcl. Tcl, Tcl/Tk and Expect are specialist subjects, and we doubt whether you'll find such a complete collection of books on the subject anywhere else in our neighbourhood. Books are available for trainees use during courses, and former trainees are welcome back to use the library at a later date too. </img> <img name="ybx"> <title text="Python books" /> Our library comprises some 400 technical books, of which nearly 20 are on Python. Related technologies such as SQL and XML, and general books on programming and Object Oriented principles are also available. Books are here for trainees use during courses, and former trainees are welcome back to use the library at a later date too. </img> <img name=""> <title text="Our Training Centre" /> Our training centre is located in an old Georgian building on the outskirts of Melksham, built around 1814 when local businessmen planned to turn the town into a Spa town to rival Bath. Although the theory was that "the waters must do you good because they taste so bad", there were few takers and the three lodging houses that had been built were turned to other uses. There's still accommodation available in The Spa, though, so if you come here on a training course you'll be able to stay just a stone's throw away. </img> </all> Learn about this subject
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