"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.


Data that we use during our training courses, and other training resources
Tcl packages, pkg_mkIndex, pkgIndex.tcl -what are they and why use them.
What is a namespace and why do we need them?
Storing Tcl source code encoded, and running via your own C program
User defined sorting and other uses of callbacks in Tcl and Tk
Passing back multiple results in Tcl - upvar and uplevel
If its Sunday, must it be Weymouth?
Handling binary data in Perl is easy!
Single and double quotes strings in Perl - what is the difference?
A review of the Summer Sunday extra trains on the TransWilts line
When variables behave differently - Tie in Perl
Journey home by public transport for a Bank Holiday
Perl - a quick reminder and revision. Test yourself!
Not multidimentional arrays - but lists of lists. Much more flexible. Perl!
Where do businessmen stay in Melksham?
Buses on the Cambridge Guided Busway
Last chance this summer - Swindon and North Wiltshire to Weymouth by through train
That spec is a kingfisher ...
Open Source Training Schedule - learn a programming language - in Autumn 2011 or 2012
$ is atomic and % and @ are molecular - Perl
From fish, loaves and apples to money, plastic cards and BACS (Perl references explained)
Perl - making best use of the flexibility, but also using good coding standards
Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration?
Tables as Objects in Lua - a gentle introduction to data driven programming
Parallel but not really parallel. Moving game characters. Coroutines in Lua.
The difference between lists and strings - Tcl
Rodwell Trail, Weymouth
What costs 8.20 from Melksham, or 22.30 via Chippenham?
For programmers who use Internet Explorer as their browser
Printing objects in C++
Plenty to do in Melksham
Templates in C++ - defining a family pattern of methods / functions
Eating out in Melksham - where we like for lunch.
Adding the pieces together to make a complete language - C
Do university courses teach the right things for life at work later on?
Loops - a comparison of goto, while and for
Are people who walk into Melksham being asked to subsidise parking?
What is the picture?
Report - day trip from Swindon / Chippenham / Melksham to Weymouth
Melksham Jelly - An Occasional Office for Home Workers