About
This website provides details of the C++ training courses run by TwoNine Training.
Who Are We?
We are two experienced C++ developers who have worked together on a number of occasions over the last 10 years. During that time we’ve seen a lot of bad C++ and a lot of bad C++ training material, so now we’re on a mission to provide good, modern C++ training that we can feel proud of.
Mark Radford - Chief C++ Trainer
Mark has 13 years of commerical C++ experience gained working on large scale C++ developments for the likes of West LB, Barclays Capital, Experian, TNT, Communisis Chorleys and Softlab UK.
He has been a member of the BSI C++ Panel since 1998, representing the UK on four occasions at the ISO C++ Committee meetings.
Mark has presented at the ACCU software development conference on a number of occasions, speaking on C++ related topics. In between conferences he contributes articles to the ACCU magazines and has sat on the advisory/review panel for their advanced level publication (Overload). He also writes for his software blog Software Debugged.
Mark has also worked with C#, .NET Java, Python and occasionally PERL.
John Crickett - C++ Trainer and Our Marketing Man
John is an experienced C++ developer, with 10 years worth of commercial experience, having worked on a number of large scale C++ developments for blue chip organisations such as Symbian, Compaq, TNT, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Westinghouse Signals and Science Systems.
Also known to dabble in a number of other programming languages, John has worked in C#/.NET, is a Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer, and has a strange fascination with Perl. For his sins he’s previously worked with Visual Basic.
John has previously written articles about programming in C, C++ and Java for the ACCU magazine and several websites. He is a member of the BSI C++ language panel.
Most recently he’s become a business geek, so when he’s not writing code, he’s studying for an MBA.
John has previously presented on software development and business related topics at the ACCU conference, the IRSE and Bath University.