"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.


The end, or the start?
Buses - how did we get into the situation we are in?
Sorting a dict in Python
Wiltshire Supported Bus consultation - final few days
Spring at Well House Manor
Chippenham to Salisbury by public transport - what we have and what we could have
Mallory Place bus stop - services to Bath
Easy data to object mapping (csv and Python)
Recursion in Python - the classic example
Unique word locator - Python dict example
What is happening on the 231 bus? What are you going to do about it?
Prining a pound sign from Python AND running from the command line at the same time
The end of competition on a bus route - the effects from then end of the 234
Rumours of bus changes by First in Wiltshire - what we know and suspect
Identifying the first and last records in a sequence
Image indexer / thumbnail display scripts in PHP
Getting to the Royal United Hospital - the Hopper and the alternatives
Coats of arms - towns and authorities in Wiltshire
Testing new algorithms in PHP
Pressure selling in the fire safety business
Why populate object with values as you construct them?
Object and Static methods - what is the difference; example in Python 3
Why is bus funding a much hotter topic than a new set of traffic lights?
On the problems of a printed train timetable
Sometimes you wonder about people. And perhaps you should not.
What are callbacks? Why use them? An example in Python
In your room at Well House Manor, Melksham, Wiltshire
From last July (2015)
A small teaching program - demonstration of principles only
Using an MVC structure - even without a formal framework
Who was Doctor Beeching and what was his axe?
Working out the costs of running a bus service through the day
TransWilts Community Interest Company AGM - 13 Feb 2016, Swindon
People matter - but there is a tradeoff between different people in there
Rail user groups worried about what is happening on the buses
Encapsulating logic in functions and structs - the C approach to Object Oriented techniques
Regression testing - via a very short C testing framework
String handling in C - new examples of extracting integers from a string
Remember to ask the question before you listen for the answer
What would the Wiltshire Council bus cuts mean for Melksham?