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PHP - Case Study
  [2051] A Presentation about our company - web and PHP - (2009-02-23)
  [1495] Single login and single threaded models - Java and PHP - (2008-01-04)

wxPython
  [3139] Steering our Python courses towards wxPython, SQLite and Django - (2011-01-19)
  [3092] wxPython geometry - BoxSizer example - (2010-12-17)
  [3086] Sizers (geometry control) in a wxPython GUI - a first example - (2010-12-15)
  [3081] wxPython - simple example to add GUI to a server log file analysis - (2010-12-08)
  [2887] Snow Leopard and Python (that is OS X 10.6 and wxPython) - (2010-07-26)
  [2744] PyQt (Python and Qt) and wxPython - GUI comparison - (2010-04-28)
  [2013] wxPython - Introduction and sample - (2009-01-29)
  [903] Pieces of Python - (2006-10-23)

Tcl/Tk - Other Facilities in Tcl
  [4207] Exception handling in Tcl - (2013-11-14)
  [3583] Expanding a list of parameters in Tcl - {*} and eval - (2012-01-17)
  [3570] Trapping errors in Tcl - the safety net that catch provides - (2012-01-06)
  [3287] Exceptions - Tcl style - (2011-05-12)
  [2467] Tcl - catching an error before your program crashes - (2009-10-22)
  [1338] Handling Binary data in Tcl (with a note on C) - (2007-09-09)
  [1334] Stable sorting - Tcl, Perl and others - (2007-09-06)
  [1277] AgtInvoke - a command to drive Agilent Tcl software extensions - (2007-07-26)
  [782] Converting between Hex and Decimal in Tcl - (2006-06-28)
  [748] Getting rid of variables after you have finished with them - (2006-06-06)
  [461] Shortened interactive commands - (2005-10-11)
  [366] Error handling in Tcl through catch - (2005-07-02)
  [364] pu daily and p hourly - (2005-06-30)
  [239] What and why for the epoch - (2005-03-08)

Perl - More about Files
  [3839] Spraying data from one incoming to series of outgoing files in Perl - (2012-08-15)
  [3412] Handling binary data in Perl is easy! - (2011-08-30)
  [3320] Reading the nth line from a file (Perl and Tcl examples) - (2011-06-09)
  [2964] An introduction to file handling in programs - buffering, standard in and out, and file handles - (2010-09-21)
  [2405] But I am reading from a file - no need to prompt (Perl) - (2009-09-14)
  [1832] Processing all files in a directory - Perl - (2008-10-11)
  [1709] There is more that one way - Perl - (2008-07-14)
  [1225] Perl - functions for directory handling - (2007-06-09)

Web Application Deployment - Structured Code and Object Orientation
  [3085] Object Oriented Programming for Structured Programmers - conversion training - (2010-12-14)
  [1717] Q - Should I use Perl or Python? - (2008-07-23)
  [343] Should I use structured or object oriented? - (2005-06-10)

More MySQL commands
  [3270] SQL - Data v Metadata, and the various stages of data selection - (2011-04-29)
  [3061] Databases - why data is split into separate tables, and how to join them - (2010-11-20)
  [2647] Removing duplicates from a MySQL table - (2010-02-22)
  [2645] Optimising and caching your MySQL enquiries - (2010-02-22)
  [2644] Counting rows in joined MySQL tables - (2010-02-22)
  [2643] Relating tables with joins in MySQL - (2010-02-21)
  [2448] MySQL - efficiency and other topics - (2009-10-10)
  [2259] Grouping rows for a summary report - MySQL and PHP - (2009-06-27)
  [2110] MySQL - looking for records in one table that do NOT correspond to records in another table - (2009-03-31)
  [1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes - (2008-11-23)
  [1735] Finding words and work boundaries (MySQL, Perl, PHP) - (2008-08-03)
  [1574] Joining MySQL tables revisited - finding nonmatching records, etc - (2008-03-15)
  [1331] MySQL joins revisited - (2007-09-03)
  [1235] Outputting numbers as words - MySQL with Perl or PHP - (2007-06-17)
  [1213] MySQL - the order of clauses and the order of actions - (2007-06-01)
  [673] Helicopter views and tartans - (2006-04-06)
  [591] Key facts - SQL and MySQL - (2006-02-04)
  [581] Saving a MySQL query results to your local disc for Excel - (2006-01-29)
  [572] Giving the researcher power over database analysis - (2006-01-22)
  [567] Combining similar rows from a MySQL database select - (2006-01-17)
  [517] An occasional chance, and reducing data to manageable levels - (2005-12-04)
  [515] MySQL - an FAQ - (2005-12-03)
  [513] MySQL - JOIN or WHERE to link tables correctly? - (2005-12-01)
  [502] SELECT in MySQL - choosing the rows you want - (2005-11-22)
  [494] MySQL - a score of things to remember - (2005-11-12)
  [449] Matching in MySQL - (2005-09-24)
  [279] Getting a list of unique values from a MySQL column - (2005-04-14)
  [159] MySQL - Optimising Selects - (2004-12-21)
  [158] MySQL - LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN, INNER JOIN and OUTER JOIN - (2004-12-20)

Food and Drink.
  [3387] Eating out in Melksham - where we like for lunch. - (2011-08-11)
  [3233] C / C++ Course Lunch - sitting out at the West End - (2011-04-07)
  [3199] Lunch for Melksham Businesses - (2011-03-11)
  [3182] What we look for in a lunchtime cafe restaurant in Melksham - (2011-02-24)
  [2784] Course Lunches - (2010-05-27)
  [2591] Melksham Hotel, B and B or business accommodation? - (2010-01-20)
  [2590] A healthy, local breakfast in Melksham - (2010-01-19)
  [1904] Ruby, Perl, Linux, MySQL - some training notes - (2008-11-23)
  [1843] How many cups of coffee? - (2008-10-17)
  [1332] Melksham Hotel - Five Star Kitchen! - (2007-09-04)
  [456] Laying out a vegetarian lunch - (2005-10-05)
  [302] Dining full circle - (2005-05-06)
  [221] Lunchtime Drink - (2005-02-20)
  [211] Look after your staff and they'll look after you. AOL. - (2005-02-12)
  [207] Canteen Dragon - (2005-02-09)
  [184] MTBF of coffee machines - (2005-01-20)
  [36] Tesco at 5 - (2004-09-02)

Object Orientation and General technical topics - Regular Expression Elements
  [2804] Regular Expression Myths - (2010-06-13)
  [1849] String matching in Perl with Regular Expressions - (2008-10-20)
  [1799] Regular Expressions in PHP - (2008-09-16)
  [1766] Diagrams to show you how - Tomcat, Java, PHP - (2008-08-22)
  [1480] Next course - 7th January 2008, Regular Expressions - (2007-12-21)
  [453] Commenting Perl regular expressions - (2005-09-30)

Web and Intranet - Elements of cascading style sheets
  [4037] Cascading Style Sheets and formatting your web page - (2013-03-10)
  [1998] Text on a background image - (2009-01-16)
  [1831] Text formating for HTML, with PHP - (2008-10-11)
  [1677] CSS training - Cascading Style Sheets (UK course) - (2008-06-15)
  [1019] span and div tags - a css comparison - (2007-01-02)
  [1017] css - handling white space and pre - (2007-01-01)
  [999] Cascading and the buses - (2006-12-18)
  [994] Training on Cascading Style Sheets - (2006-12-17)

C and C based languages - Introduction to C++
  [3250] C++ - how we teach the language and the concepts behind the language - (2011-04-17)
  [3069] Strings, Garbage Collection and Variable Scope in C++ - (2010-11-25)
  [3053] Make - automating the commands for building and installing - (2010-11-16)
  [3052] Getting your C++ program to run - (2010-11-15)
  [2845] Objects and Inheritance in C++ - an easy start - (2010-07-01)
  [2169] When should I use OO techniques? - (2009-05-11)
  [2004] Variable Scope in C++ - (2009-01-22)
  [928] C++ and Perl - why did they do it THAT way? - (2006-11-16)
  [336] Targetted Advertising - (2005-06-05)
  [318] Choosing a theme - (2005-05-20)
  [317] Programming languages - a comparison - (2005-05-20)

Ruby - Special Variables and Pseudo-Variables
  [3757] Ruby - a teaching example showing many of the language features in short but useful program - (2012-06-09)
  [2623] Object Oriented Ruby - new examples - (2010-02-03)
  [2613] Constants in Ruby - (2010-02-01)
  [2296] Variable scope - what is it, and how does it Ruby? - (2009-07-18)
  [1891] Ruby to access web services - (2008-11-16)
  [1587] Some Ruby programming examples from our course - (2008-03-21)
  [1586] Variable types in Ruby - (2008-03-21)
  [990] Ruby - Totally Topical - (2006-12-16)

Well House Manor - We suggest these local businesses
  [4327] Good, stable, reliable local businesses - (2014-11-23)
  [4254] Where is Melksham Market? In the Market Place, every Tuesday - (2014-04-02)
  [4019] Coffee Shop in Melksham - (2013-02-24)
  [3597] Niche businesses in Melksham. From glass painting to Tcl and Lua courses. - (2012-01-29)
  [3337] Home Grown Pigs, near Melksham Station - (2011-06-26)
  [2793] They do weddings, we do courses. - (2010-06-04)
  [2591] Melksham Hotel, B and B or business accommodation? - (2010-01-20)
  [2027] Who sticks by you in the snow? - (2009-02-05)
  [2021] Short health and safety course - (2009-02-02)
  [1894] Shopping in Melksham - (2008-11-19)
  [1883] Spa Road Garage and Convenience Store, Melksham - (2008-11-14)
  [1655] A date for your diary - 16th July 2008 - (2008-05-27)
  [1559] Calling on Melksham / Trowbridge / Devizes / Chippenham businesses - (2008-02-29)
  [1394] Business to Business Networking - North and West Wilts / Melksham - (2007-10-17)
  [1257] Data cabling (Cat 5e), Melksham, Wiltshire - (2007-07-04)
  [1253] Key new contacts - (2007-06-30)
  [1250] Business speed networking - a place tonight! - (2007-06-28)
  [1223] Asda opening large new store in Melksham - (2007-06-08)
  [1208] Meet other local businesses in Melksham - (2007-05-28)
  [1085] Lawrence Webb's Melksham Taxi service - (2007-02-18)
  [894] Where quality costs less - (2006-10-15)
  [851] Emergency First Aid Training - (2006-09-01)
  [315] Supporting local business - (2005-05-18)

Java - Loops and Conditional Statements
  [4346] A behaviour driven example of writing a Java program - (2014-12-09)
  [4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while - (2014-11-22)
  [4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if) - (2014-11-21)
  [3397] Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration? - (2011-08-18)
  [3200] How a for loop works Java, Perl and other languages - (2011-03-12)
  [3038] Setting up individual variables, and arrays, in Java - some commented examples - (2010-11-09)
  [2734] for and foreach in Java - (2010-04-22)
  [1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ... - (2008-07-04)
  [1582] Ruby, C, Java and more - getting out of loops - (2008-03-19)
  [1220] for loop - how it works (Perl, PHP, Java, C, etc) - (2007-06-06)
  [353] Wimbledon Neck - (2005-06-20)

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At Well House Consultants, we provide training courses on subjects such as Ruby, Lua, Perl, Python, Linux, C, C++, Tcl/Tk, Tomcat, PHP and MySQL. We're asked (and answer) many questions, and answers to those which are of general interest are published in this area of our site.