"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.


Meet the neighbours
.pdf files - upload via PHP, store in MySQL, retrieve
One Thousand Posts and still going strong
Cascading and the buses
The year of the exploding projector
Most recent file in a directory - PHP
Setting your colour theme through PHP
Ruby's case - no break
Training on Cascading Style Sheets
Positioning with Cascading Style Sheets
Enthusiastic, but ....
Adding a member to a Hash in Ruby
Ruby - Totally Topical
Melksham Quiz
You should think you're first in a hotel room
Ruby v Perl - interpollating variables
puts - opposite of chomp in Ruby
Equality in Ruby - == eql? and equal?
Cardinal numbers and magic numbers
Blessing in Perl / Member variable in Ruby
Notes from the white board
Finalist reception - Wiltshire Business of the Year
Street Scene
Empty seats, Nodding Donkeys and buses
Wellhouse Manor, Hotel, Melksham
Melksham and Norwich
Santa at the station
Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions
The last commuter train through Melksham
Too much used to Skype
Both one team and two
Wiltshire letterboxes
String duplication - x in Perl, * in Python and Ruby
Perl - $_ and @_
Perl - a list or a hash?
Realistic on line shoot'em up
CSL, KISS and RTFM
KISS - one action per statement please - Perl
Practical polymorphism in action
George Hotel and Well House Manor, Melksham