"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.


Files or Databases? MySQL, SQLite, or Oracle?
Baby Pictures
Reybridge, Easter Monday
Easter on the Canal - near Melksham, Wiltshire
Alternative Vote (AV) - cutting the crap
Alternative Vote (AV) - explaining and an example
Come as a customer, leave as a friend - Well House Manor, Hotel, Wiltshire
Some SVG Elements, pixel and percent positioning
Scalable Vector Graphics - easy, low bandwidth, high resolution, dynamic.
Ruby - a training example that puts many language elements together to demonstrate the whole
Our library in Melksham
Morning in Melksham
All possible combinations from a list (Python) or array (Ruby)
Displaying a directory or file system tree - Linux
Process every member of an array, and sort an array - Ruby
Multiple inputs, multiple out, ruby functions
Is this number between? Does this list include? - Ruby
C++ - unknown array size, unknown object type. Help!
C++ - objects that are based on other objects, saving coding and adding robustness
C++ - how we teach the language and the concepts behind the language
Events - Spring and Early Summer 2011 in Melksham
What have these pictures in common?
Light and dark at Green Park
Melksham - the way forward. 26th April, Well House Manor
Collections in C and C++ - arrays, vectors and heap memory blocks
C and C++ - preprocess, compile, load, run - what each step is for
Breaking the running sequence - an introduction to conditional statements and loops
How to return 2 values from a function (C++ and C) - more uses of pointers
Spring in the countryside near Melksham
Melksham Town Council - vacancy in the Spa Ward
TrainWest, 2011 in pictures - Christie Miller, Bowerhill, Melksham
Bradshaw, Ben and Bill. And some C and C++ pointers and references too.
Using functions to keep look and feel apart from calculations - simple C example
C - a first program that does something useful for you
How we make our programming courses both time and cost effective
Your program - you just provide the filling in the sandwich
C / C++ Course Lunch - sitting out at the West End
Around and about Melksham in more pictures
Footpath, Bridleway, Byway, Road used as Public Path
Whaddon - near us and yet so remote from us