"The Horse's Mouth" is an online magazine - the ramblings of Graham Ellis. I'm very fortunate to come across a lot of interesting people in my work, and they inspire me to think and to write. You'll find a mixture of technical tips on the subjects we teach, things we have learnt from our own website and wider, and pictures, thoughts and wider comment.

The beauty of the net is that you can search and read as much - or as little - as you like. You can even add your comments if you wish; although we can't offer you the same anonimity nor a "freedom of speech", I'm going to encourage you to post of views that don't agree with mine and only in what I consider to be exceptional circumstances will I remove or modify your material.


Python courses and Private courses - gently updating our product to keep it ahead of the game
Python sets and frozensets - what are they?
Public transport - road and rail
How important is public transport to people in the Melksham area?
Perl - retrieving and caching web resources
A Melksham Timeline - Domesday to present day
Canals, watererways in the Melksham area
Taking a boat down Caen Hill Locks
Some thoughts in answer to some Melksham Campus questions
Direct Message: Really horrible blog about you ... a clever phishing trip, said to be from an MP
Practical Extraction and Reporting - using Python and Extreme Programming
Testing your Python classes with the unittest package - how to
Choosing your Python GUI - wx, Qt, Tk or GTK?
Tkinter - an easy to use Python Graphic User Interface - introductory examples
Havant - Shop Frontages.
Python Packages - groupings of modules. An introduction
Picture - Havant Station at Dusk
Static variables in functions - and better ways using objects
Vintage Bus Running Day in Warminster. An example of good bus practise.
Currently pictured in Melksham
Teaching dilemma - old tricks and techniques, or recent enhancements?
Python string formatting - the move from % to str.format
Charities v Charitable. The cost of collecting your donation.
Passing of Steve Jobs - R.I.P.
How can I do an FTP transfer in Python?
Passing optional and named parameters to python methods
Busy weekend of contrasts.
Hangers, luggage and possessions
From flowchart to program - code design for the newcomer
Flying Colours!
Catching the fishes first?
On this day ... one PHP script with three uses
Away to train - but still around by video for Melksham meetings
Stepping stones - early coding, and writing re-usable code quickly
MySQL, MySQLi, PDO or something else - how best to talk to databases from PHP
Your PHP website - how to factor and refactor to reduce growing pains
Reading and using emails including enclosures on your web server.
Which or ATOC - who reads train fares right?
Why would you want to use a Perl hash?
A threat in the post? Poor marketing practise from Smiletrain?