"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.


Apache Internal Dummy Connection - what is it and what should I do with it?
Checking all the systems on a subnet, using Expect and Tk
Needle in a haystack - finding the web server overload
Awk v Perl
Perl and CGI - simple form, and monitoring script.
Take the dog on a lead - do not carry her. Perl references.
Getting more log information from the Apache http web server
A demonstration of how many Python facilities work together
Pressing ^C in a Python program. Also Progress Bar.
Research is exciting. But should routine be automated?
Python for loops - applying a temporary second name to the same object
Melksham to become a part of Trowbridge?
Light bulbs
Moving from scripting to Object Orientation in Python
Sorta sorting a hash, and what if an exception is NOT thrown - Ruby
Sundays - and over eating
Exceptions - a fail-safe way of trapping things that may go wrong
3 digit HTTP status codes - what are they, which are most common, which should be a concern?
Ruby at both extremes of your website
Sigils - the characters on the start of variable names in Perl, Ruby and Fortran
Searching through all the files in or below a directory - Ruby, Tcl, Perl
How many days to Christmas?
What is on the Melksham Agenda?
Automed web site testing scripted in Ruby using watir-webdriver
Our National Autograss Champion, from Melksham
Divide 10000 by 17. Do you get 588.235294117647, 588.24 or 588? - Ruby and PHP
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 12?
Assigning values to variables within other statements - Ruby
Ruby off the Rails?
Making best use of the new enthusiasm for Melksham
Data that we use during our training courses, and other training resources
Tcl packages, pkg_mkIndex, pkgIndex.tcl -what are they and why use them.
What is a namespace and why do we need them?
Storing Tcl source code encoded, and running via your own C program
User defined sorting and other uses of callbacks in Tcl and Tk
Passing back multiple results in Tcl - upvar and uplevel
If its Sunday, must it be Weymouth?
Handling binary data in Perl is easy!
Single and double quotes strings in Perl - what is the difference?
A review of the Summer Sunday extra trains on the TransWilts line