"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.


Scope of variables - important to Ruby on Rails
Search and replace in Ruby - Ruby Regular Expressions
Answers on Ruby on Rails
Sorting arrays and hashes in Ruby
Ruby on Rails - a sample application to teach you how
Tips for writing a test program (Ruby / Python / Java)
Ruby objects - a primer
East of Melksham - Building Work Starts
Ruby - is_a? v instance_of? - what is the difference?
Go Programming Language and Courses?
Telling Apache web servers apart / notes for the non-technical
An excuse for making a sales call
Does my course include breakfast, lunch, dinner and a hotel room?
Http protocol - what does a web server send
Twelve skills / knowledges needed for the design of a web site
Melksham Area - your community view is sought
Food and drink launch
Re-using our pictures
Melksham Hotel, B and B or business accommodation?
A healthy, local breakfast in Melksham
Your PHP code does not work? Here is where to start looking.
Freddies Wood and the K and A Canal
Bowerhill as a cycling community
And and Or illustrated by locks
Consultation in Melksham, on Melkshams future
Melksham Food and Drink Festival, 2010
Reducing image size on digital photos - PHP
Starting to arrange the picture library
Snow scenes - and how snow effected our business
C course inspires new teaching examples
Creating, setting up and using objects in C++
Where are your objects stored in C++?
Complete teaching example - C++, inheritance, polymorphism
What does const mean? C and C++
Sharing variables between files of code in C - extern
Summary of Wiltshire Core Strategy responses
C Structs - what, how and why
The what and why of C pointers
Reading and writing files in C
Function Prototypes in C