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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
A lot has changed - but the memory lingers on

I got an email from a delegate I trained ten years ago - which goes to show just how long a week of training can be remembered. He wrote "I was trying to figure out how to return EOF in Java when Google showed site Well House. Well, I couldn't remember where I learned Perl but now I do! Sometime in 99 I took one of your Perl courses - which in fact did turn out to be exactly what I needed."

It's good to hear from people after all these years - it helps complete the loop and make it feel all that much more worthwhile knowing that people learn not only for the short but the medium and long term too. But - my goodness - a lot of water has flowed under the bridge in ten years!

I'll share my answer ... and help fill in any other past delegates who should stumble across our pages ... it's a small world after all

In "99", we were running our own Perl courses under contract at First Alternative who in those days had a training centre (since closed) at Harwell in Oxfordshire. In 2000, we opened our own training centre in Melksham, Wiltshire - initially for our Perl and Java courses, but we rapidly added Tcl, and since then other languages too, most notably (in terms of business volume!) Python and PHP.

We've specialised in the REALLY niche stuff, so that most of our delegates travel a long way to our courses - and that means that some 80% of delegates also want overnight accommodation - so in 2006, we expanded / opened a new training centre / hotel, where we now run all of our public courses. And we're teaching Linux, web server deployment, Lua, Ruby and MySQL - also C and C++ - in addition to those subjects mentioned above. Then we found that people coming to Melksham, or to visit Bath, like to stay with us because we're a full hotel ... and people want to hire our training rooms to run their own courses ... and we're now something of a 24 x 7 business!

I may be wrong ... but some vague bell tells me that you were with Oxford University of based near there. If I have committed the ultimate sin of mixing up my Oxfords and Cambridges - oops - I expect you'll forgive me.

Did you get your Java "eof" sorted? The answer will depend on what method you're using on what type of object ;-) .... with chance being that it will be a cardinal number like -1, a false, or an exception chucked back at you. Please do let me know if you are not resolved and I'll have a proper look within 24 hours - there's no limit to how long I like to help past students. In fact - I started a blog back in 2004 and I post useful answers such as this up there ... please do have a look at http://www.wellho.net/horse - for "The Horse's Mouth". And if you fancy a weekend away in Wiltshire, do come down and stay at the hotel ... you can refer to the library of around 700 books (100 on Java, 100 on Perl) and we can catch up on old times. Oh - the hotel web site is http://www.wellhousemanor.co.uk and past delegates can stay at the weekend at a special price of 70 pounds per room per night ;-)

Anyway - let me know if you need a hand with the Java, and if you're down our way (but not looking to stay) put in for a coffee. Good to hear from you!

Illustration ... my training takes me to many places, mostly local to us here in the UK but occasionally distant. The picture shows a training course group (I don't usually take this many!) in Mexico in the summer of 2009
(written 2009-03-12, updated 2010-06-23)

 
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  [388] BBQ Season - (2005-07-24)
  [392] No Smoking - (2005-07-27)
  [423] A Victorian Lady - (2005-08-23)
  [530] Perl course during the week, getting married at the weekend - (2005-12-16)
  [543] The world didn't stop for Christmas - (2005-12-26)
  [584] Loosing breath with Gerald - (2006-01-31)
  [601] A fond memory of Sir Freddie - (2006-02-11)
  [611] Look out for the motor cyclist - (2006-02-17)
  [650] A person of few words - (2006-03-18)
  [704] Erin Brent - rest in peace - (2006-04-29)
  [763] Much more that the world cup - (2006-06-15)
  [771] From cat breeder to Cobol to Perl - (2006-06-21)
  [794] Perl delegate - much more than just a delegate - (2006-07-06)
  [820] Robert and William Whitworth - (2006-08-01)
  [1064] Light and shadows at Beach - (2007-02-04)
  [1065] Graham Ellis - an Introduction - (2007-02-05)
  [1107] Weekend Visitors - (2007-03-13)
  [1119] The Last Word on the road - (2007-03-26)
  [1151] Gordon Dodge, R.I.P. - (2007-04-16)
  [1197] Back off home with our best wishes - (2007-05-21)
  [1238] The kind spirit of Melksham - (2007-06-21)
  [1279] The Gdansk fireball - (2007-07-27)
  [1303] Heading Upstate New York - (2007-08-14)
  [1385] Delegates of all shapes and sizes - (2007-10-09)
  [1522] Paging Martin Noke, who petitions for more trains from Trowbridge to Swindon - (2008-01-28)
  [1570] London Midland ... Merrymaker ... Percy Danks - (2008-03-10)
  [1627] Amazing family members - (2008-05-02)
  [1916] Why I remember East Grafton - (2008-12-02)
  [1980] Michelle - (2009-01-06)
  [1988] Melksham, Wiltshire. Town Crier Competition, 2009 - (2009-01-11)
  [2100] Visiting Family - (2009-03-23)
  [2132] Learning about Lurchers - (2009-04-18)
  [2503] Melksham manslaughter case concludes - sort of - (2009-11-14)
  [2795] Simon says - (2010-06-05)
  [2846] Catching up with an old friend - (2010-07-01)
  [2886] Congratulations, Kimberly - (2010-07-25)
  [3008] Dulwich College Preparatory, and Sevenoaks, Schools - (2010-10-21)
  [3034] Birth Notice - Aeryn Cassandra Ellis - (2010-11-07)
  [3055] Zyliana Kyrei Cox - (2010-11-16)
  [3125] The family is defunct. Long live the family. - (2011-01-09)
  [3184] Visiting relatives - (2011-02-26)
  [3268] Baby Pictures - (2011-04-27)
  [3297] A long day, a long journey, and families and similarities the world over - (2011-05-22)
  [3298] Quiet Monday in - (2011-05-23)
  [3355] Family Pictures - (2011-07-12)
  [3466] Passing of Steve Jobs - R.I.P. - (2011-10-06)
  [3512] A colleague and friend who changed my life - (2011-11-07)
  [3775] Alan Turing - 1912 to 1954 - (2012-06-23)
  [3905] How should we choose our Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner? - (2012-10-27)
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  [4482] People in New York - (2015-05-02)
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  [4736] Our changing world - (2017-04-17)

G209 - Well House Consultants - Keeping up to date
  [82] Keeping up to date - (2004-10-10)
  [83] Geek Cruising - (2004-10-11)
  [86] Talk review - Idiomatic Perl, David Cross - (2004-10-12)
  [143] Network Camera - (2004-12-07)
  [160] Review of the Autumn - (2004-12-22)
  [250] We dont stand still - (2005-03-18)
  [396] The next technologies - (2005-07-29)
  [1488] New trainee laptop fleet for our Open Source courses - (2007-12-30)
  [2032] Mobile Internet - an alternative to hotel WiFi - (2009-02-09)
  [2352] Printed Directories - the start of the updating season - (2009-08-12)
  [2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more - (2010-01-05)
  [2940] Training course locations - Melksham, UK; Buxton, UK; Lake Constance, Germany; Venice Italy, the USA and India - (2010-08-30)
  [3003] What will we be teaching in six years? - (2010-10-17)
  [3469] Teaching dilemma - old tricks and techniques, or recent enhancements? - (2011-10-08)
  [3653] What is happening in 59 days time in Melksham? - (2012-03-14)
  [3755] Cruising on the Mersey Ferry? - (2012-06-07)
  [4200] Endorsed Perl, Python and PHP training - Tcl, Lua, Ruby and C too! - (2013-10-24)
  [4314] PHP training - refreshed modern course, backed up by years of practical experience - (2014-11-16)


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