About The Graphics Network

History

The Graphics Network was formed in February 1988 in order to exploit the emerging Microsoft Windows.

Steve Jones, our principal developer and trainer, had by then been developing for Windows for almost two years as well as training other developers. At this time the company was also developing and selling its own software, targeted at other developers, and this was used everywhere from Europe to the USA, Scandinavia to Australia.

We have trained

• Windows to Microsoft
• Java to Sun
• OS/2 to IBM

Our other customers range from large organizations such as Philips and Sony to individuals.

Although we are a small company, we have a worldwide reputation and have trained throughout Europe and as far as Australia.

Philosophy

In the 22 years we have been established we have seen many other training companies come and go, either growing into ‘training supermarkets’ who just sell bought-in expertise, or into larger organizations who lose their personal contact and disappear.

That is why:

• We started small, are still small, and will be small in 10 years time
• We believe in the personal touch: your trainer will speak to you before the course and will be there for you afterwards
• We provide quality training based on development experience
• We keep apace with the latest developments in software hence moving into Java and then the .NET technologies of C# and VB.Net

We believe the above philosophy is the reason for our success and longevity and we expect to be training developers and developing software at the forefront of technology for many years to come.

News in 2010

Visual Studio 2010 is now out so all our courses support this version as well as its predecessors.

Our latest course is AJAX for ASP.Net developers, covering the techniques required to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIA).

So far this year has been extremely hectic training wise, like the first half of last year.  Two significant new customers are Barclays Bank and the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy.

While C#, VB.Net and JavaScript remain our most popular courses, we are still being asked for the old favourites like C/C++ and even VB6.

Steve makes occasional entries about development on his blog.