"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.


Challenge for a photographer
What is a web framework?
Multiple page web applications - maintaining state - PHP
BODMAS - the order a computer evaluates arithmetic expressions
PHP variables - dynamically typed. What does that mean?
How does PHP work?
While, for, foreach or something else to loop.
How many times ... has this loco headed west through Tenby? - Python exceptions
Sand to Arabia, Coals to Newcastle or Woodburners to Russia
How well do you know Perl and / or Python?
Identifying your real customers and keeping them well informed fast
Every Customer Counts
Black dogs at Halloween
Weather pictures
Taking the lead, not the dog, for a walk.
How should we choose our Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner?
Want to help us improve transport in Wiltshire? Here is how!
Python Programming class for delegates who have already self-taught the basics
Shell - Grep - Sed - Awk - Perl - Python - which to use when?
How much parking should there be at Melksham Campus?
The Xxxxx Guest House in Xxxxxxxxxxx - my stay reviewed
Father Christmas to be on train in Melksham
The course must go on - improvements to tutor travel plans, with immediate effect
Autumn scenes from Melksham
An email marathon
Flowchart to program - learning to program with Well House
A wet Saturday
Public Transport across Wiltshire - a new map
Distributed, Balanced and Clustered Load Sharing - the difference
The components of an Apache httpd / Tomcat / MySQL stack and what each does
Here comes Santa - on the train from Melksham to Swindon on 2nd December 2012
Melksham Chamber of Commerce - whence in 2013 and beyond?
What a difference a year made - Melksham Campus
Inheritance, Composition and Associated objects - when to use which - Python example
Formatting output - why we need to, and first Python example
Default local - a good choice by the author of Python
Pictures - across the park, French Weir and River Tone, Taunton
Apple Pressing Day 2012
Community Transport - Pewsey, Taunton, and the whole picture too
Wiltshire Public Transport User Group co-ordination