"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.


Buses in Wiltshire - potential changes and where we stand at the moment
Training Course schedule for summer and autumn 2016
Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 5 (services and prices)
Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 4
Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 3
Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 2
Melksham Station - as at May 2016 - Part 1
Saudi Arabia or Weymouth?
One line scripts - Awk, Perl and Ruby
Ruby testing with RSpec - a new example
Processing data line by line - iterator in Ruby with yield
Reading in XML in Ruby with xmlsimple
Expect with Ruby - a training example to get you started
Swindon, Chippenham and Melksham - day trips by train to Weymouth start for 2016
Running shell (operating system) commands from within Ruby
Exceptions in Ruby - throwing, catching and using
Alternating valuses / flip-flop / toggle - example in Ruby
Separating detailed data code from the main application - Ruby example
Annual review of Melksham Matters for Chamber of Commerce AGM
Ruby training, half a world away
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