"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.


Conditionals, loops and methods in Ruby - a primer with simple examples
Ruby - the second rung of learning the language
Shuffling a list - Ruby and Python
A year of rail memories!
Changing what operators do on objects - a comparison across different programming languages
The changing face of Christmas
Christmas day in Melksham
A quiet evening in Melksham - awaiting Santa
What a difference a year makes
Multiple yields and no loops in a Python generator?
Python - comparison of old and new string formatters
How to avoid too many recalculations within an object
A brilliant finish to 2014 training and business guests, and a look to 2015
Seeing Christmas Coming to Melksham
Object factories in C++, Python, PHP and Perl
C++ in 2 days
Wiltshire Police - assuming someone is guilty just on the say-so of a member of the public?
Celebration pictures, year 1
A long day on the trains, but a rewarding one
A little thing can make a big difference
Keyboard reader for Java programming newcomers
When I am old, what will worry me?
Taking my life in my hands in Swansea
Arrays in Java - an introduction for newcomers
A behaviour driven example of writing a Java program
Incrementing a variable in Java - Pre and Post Increment
Python base and inherited classes, test harness and unit testing - new examples
Politics and the railway the connects Wiltshire
My first official measure - Passenger Entrys and Exits - revisited 9 years later
Segmentation Fault, Segmentation Violation, Bus Error, Stack Smashing
Command line and file handling in C
Simple C structs - building up to full, dynamic example
Passing arrays into functions in C
Learning to program sample program - past its prime, but still useful
Test Driven Development - a first example of principle in C
Flexible public courses - residential or commuting, programming newcomer or experienced, C or C++
Splitting out code into name blocks for clarity and reusability
Misty Melksham Morning
First Java Application - calculating the weight of a tablecloth
Musings on a Welsh town