"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.


A pint of Black Rat, and a lazy barman
Where have all the bloggers gone?
Python training courses for use with ESRI ArcMap software
Chancellor George Osborne inspires Perl Program
Netiquette for forum newcomers
Some more pictures ...
File open and read in Perl - modernisation
Setting a safety net or fallback value in Perl
Intelligent Matching in Perl
switch and case, or given and when in Perl
Python - splitting and joining strings
Iterating over a Perl list and changing all items
What is Perl?
Igloos melt in the summer, but houses do not
A course review - for the tutor to complete
Frankfurt in 90 minutes
From home to Nurnberg - journey pictures
Canal through Melksham - the options and issues
Macho matching - do not do it!
How are you getting on?
Regular Expression Myths
Travelling across Europe
After the Perl course in Nurnberg
Binary data handling with unpack in Perl
The Merchants And
Nuremberg - some pictures
Perl - skip the classics and use regular expressions
Sur la T.G.V.
Sunday - waiting for the ferry.
Simon says
The Farming Industry pictured around Melksham
They do weddings, we do courses.
Should Government compete with private industry?
Bath to Melksham buses - times
Joining a MySQL table from within a Python program
Melksham to London (Heathrow, and Central London)
Cost of Sales
Sleeping in on Sunday
Factory methods and SqLite in use in a Python teaching example
The Light bulb moment when people see how Object Orientation works in real use