"The average age of our fleet is less than 3 years" - so said EasyJet when we flew with them earlier this month. In our business model too we keep our equipment right up to date - our training centre and business hotel was completely refitted less than 18 months ago, and we have just replaced our entire fleet of trainee laptops ...

... if you come on a course with us during January 2008, your machine will be less that a month old!

The new systems came with Windows Vista, and we'll be leaving that on them all and available for delegates who want to use a Microsoft operating system. We're also installing the latest Cygwin there so that all the Gnu utilities (such as C Compilers!) are available for Windows users during courses. And we're making them dual bootable to Linux too ...


What version(s) of software should we be using for our 2008 courses? We're downloading fresh versions and installing them over this slightly quieter few days, going with the latest stable or release candidate versions - nothing too old, and nothing that's Alpha or Beta release or "bleeding edge". So that means:
Perl 5.10.0, Python 2.5.1, Tcl 8.5.0, Java JDK SE6, httpd 2.2.6, Tomcat 6.0.14, MySQL 5.1.22 with connector-J 5.1.1, PHP 5.2.5, Gcc 3.4.4, Ruby 1.8.6, Cygwin 1.5.24.

Not everyone will be running such recent versions on their work systems, of course, and we'll be happy for people to experiment with Apache httpd 2.0 (for example) if they need to learn how to build jk connectors (Easy under 2.2 - provided with the distribution!) and we'll retain some other heritage versions too such as PHP 4.4 to allow people to check script compatibility. And I think I have a Python 2.2 somewhere ;-)
(written 2007-12-30 18:08:37)

 G997 - Well House Consultants - Newsletter Lead Articles
  [2743] Public Open Source Training Courses running this summer and autumn in Melksham - (2010-04-27)
  [2538] Open Source Training Centre and Courses for 2010 - (2009-12-16)
  [2425] Weekend and Christmas Promotion - Well House Manor Hotel, Melksham - (2009-09-26)
  [2370] C++, Python, and other training - do we use an IDE - (2009-08-21)
  [2253] Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire - (2009-06-21)
  [2119] Make your business a DESTINATION business - (2009-04-05)
  [2052] How was my web site compromised? - (2009-02-24)
  [1912] Book now for 2009 - (2008-11-29)
  [1819] Calling base class constructors - (2008-10-03)
  [1754] Upgrade from PHP 4 to PHP 5 - the TRY issue - (2008-08-15)
  [1663] Python in an afternoon - a lecture for experienced programmers - (2008-06-01)
  [1600] Cambidge - Tcl, Expect and Perl courses - (2008-04-04)
  [1545] Letting new visitors know we provide training courses - (2008-02-19)
  [1386] New software product for warmblooded programmers - (2007-10-10)
  [1318] Well House Manor - feature comparison against the old place! - (2007-08-24)
  [1224] Object Relation Mapping (ORM) - (2007-06-09)
  [1136] Buffering output - why it is done and issues raised in Tcl, Perl, Python and PHP - (2007-04-06)
  [1065] Graham Ellis - an Introduction - (2007-02-05)
  [1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong - (2006-12-18)

G204 - Well House Consultants - Equipment and facilities
  [2850] Fresh Paint for course presentation - including C++ - (2010-07-03)
  [2810] A course review - for the tutor to complete - (2010-06-14)
  [2795] Simon says - (2010-06-05)
  [2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK - (2009-06-07)
  [2032] Mobile Internet - an alternative to hotel WiFi - (2009-02-09)
  [1701] Training Course and Business Conference Technology - (2008-07-07)
  [1364] Korn shell course - resources - (2007-09-24)
  [1363] One computer per delegate, or pair programming? - (2007-09-23)
  [1126] MacFormat - Me and My Mac - (2007-03-31)
  [1089] Playing old games - (2007-02-22)
  [460] New Network - (2005-10-10)
  [452] Is enough enough? - (2005-09-27)
  [450] Wheelchair access - can do! - (2005-09-25)
  [432] New print centre for our manuals - (2005-09-01)

G209 - Well House Consultants - Keeping up to date
  [2940] Training course locations - Melksham, UK; Buxton, UK; Lake Constance, Germany; Venice Italy, the USA and India - (2010-08-30)
  [2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more - (2010-01-05)
  [2352] Printed Directories - the start of the updating season - (2009-08-12)
  [2078] A lot has changed - but the memory lingers on - (2009-03-12)
  [396] The next technologies - (2005-07-29)
  [250] We dont stand still - (2005-03-18)
  [160] Review of the Autumn - (2004-12-22)
  [143] Network Camera - (2004-12-07)
  [86] Talk review - Idiomatic Perl, David Cross - (2004-10-12)
  [83] Geek Cruising - (2004-10-11)
  [82] Keeping up to date - (2004-10-10)

G310 - Well House Consultants - A better class of course
  [2762] Well House - Mission and Policy summaries - (2010-05-13)
  [2633] Why do I teach niche skills rather than mainstream? - (2010-02-13)
  [2187] Are we IITT (Institute of IT Training) members? - (2009-05-17)
  [2109] Why most training fails ... - (2009-03-30)
  [2084] Books and distance learning from Well House Consultants? - (2009-03-15)
  [2074] Weekday or Weekend PHP, Python and Perl classes? - (2009-03-10)
  [2049] Why Choose Well House Consultants for your course? - (2009-02-20)
  [2010] How long should a training module be? - (2009-01-27)
  [1933] Learning to Program in C - (2008-12-10)
  [1645] Seeing how others do it - PHP training - (2008-05-17)
  [1576] Making PHP and MySQL training relevant to the course delegates - (2008-03-15)
  [1453] What makes our courses special? - (2007-12-02)
  [1035] Longer hours and better value courses - (2007-01-15)
  [726] In praise of training course delegates. - (2006-05-20)
  [646] PHP - London course, Melksham Course, Evening course - (2006-03-14)
  [579] Short Linux and Perl courses for small groups - (2006-01-27)
  [577] Learning to program in Perl or PHP - (2006-01-26)
  [559] ''I don't know'' is sometimes a good answer - (2006-01-09)
  [554] What backup is adequate? - (2006-01-04)
  [497] I have a river to cross - (2005-11-16)
  [394] A year on - should we offer certified PHP courses - (2005-07-28)
  [371] The training team that's looking out for you - (2005-07-07)
  [350] Want to be one better - (2005-06-17)
  [292] Elegant languages - Perl, PHP, Python - (2005-04-26)
  [230] Course sizes - beware of marketing statistics - (2005-02-27)
  [224] YOUR application and YOUR data - (2005-02-22)
  [219] Some unusual features - (2005-02-18)
  [215] Open Source becomes mainstream - (2005-02-14)
  [211] Look after your staff and they'll look after you. AOL. - (2005-02-12)

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