"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.


Always use su with minus. And where do programs come from?
Bright Colours
Running straight from the jar, but not from a tar
England, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Improving the structure of your early PHP programs
On the road, at a Service area thats a cut above the others
New Example - cacheing results in PHP for faster loading
A two day gap - first time in five years?
Melksham Business Map - Chamber of Commerce, Tourist Information and Town Council
Excellent product, excruciating customer service. 3 Mobile Broadband
Copy writing - allowing for the cut
RT @brento - a valuable source for the twitter newbie
How you are (re)presented at an exhibition
Matching disparate referencing systems (MediaWiki, PHP, also Tcl)
Camera to record where a picture was taken
Are we IITT (Institute of IT Training) members?
An FAQ on the Apache httpd and Apache Tomcat web servers, and on using them together
Abstract Classes - Java
Choosing the right version of Java and Tomcat
Servlet life cycle, and Java Servlet variable scope
What Linux run level am I in?
You cannot please all of the people all of the time
Patterns in numbers - room occupancy
Offers that I can refuse
Melksham Candidates for Wiltshire Unitary Election
Preventing forum spam - checks at sign up
Balloon Journey in Wiltshire
Melksham in pictures
Application design in PHP - multiple step processes
Basic OO principles
PHP4 v PHP5 - Object Model Difference
Cleaning up redundant objects
Designing a heirarcy of classes - getting inheritance right
When should I use OO techniques?
In honour of the photograph, I present ... a walk from Reybridge to Lacock
Watching the tele
Crossrefering documents with uniqueness and inconsistency issues - PHP proof of concept demo
Making Regular Expressions easy to read and maintain
Updating my public profile - Graham Ellis
CATALINA_OPTS v JAVA_OPTS - What is the difference?