"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.


Getting home from Melksham
A day in the life of a hotelier
What difference does using the XHTML standard really make?
Client side (Applet) and Server side (Servlet) Graphics in Java
What should a web site cost you?
Changing a variable behaviour in Perl - tieing
So what is this thing called Perl that I keep harping on about?
Perl references - $$var and \$var notations
How do I query a database (MySQL)?
Cornerstone Cafe, Melksham
Handling nasty characters - Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, Lua
Taking a pride in the community
Alumni - revisiting and supporting the old University
Sending awkward characters by email in Perl
Loading external code into Perl from a nonstandard directory
Transforming data in Perl using lists of lists and hashes of hashes
Why sendmail one way, and pop3 the other?
What is CGI.pm / A dozen new examples
Running a piece of code is like drinking a pint of beer
Do not re-invent the wheel - use a Perl module
Where do I start when writing a program?
Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses
Revision / Summary of lists - Perl
How important is a front page ranking on a search engine?
Trowbridge - a missed opportunity? Melksham - into the breach?
CSS Style Diagrams - working out where attributes come from
A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK
Adding a newsfeed for your users to a multipage PHP application
Melksham Traders - where do we go?
Configuring httpd, or Tomcat, to run CGI scripts in Perl
Multiple web applications under Tomcat - what are the options?
Enjoying the summer weather
Past Delegate Offer - Summer Holiday / Weekend Break
If nothing, make it nothing.
Global Index to help you find resources
Keyboard reading in Perl - character by character not line by line
Dripping taps, Java threads and the single thread model
Tcl/Tk - why does the canvas widget use a display list?
MySQL server replication
Monitoring and Tuning your MySQL installation