"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.


Reading files, and using factories to create vectors of objects from the data in C++
Dwarf Exception Unwind Info
Can you put names to faces?
Reading (and writing) files in C++
2011 Census results - initial figures for Wiltshire.
Scenes from commuting by train
A Walk on the South Bank
What a difference a year makes
A year ago today, a server upgrade and a new Perl example
Fancy a weekend away? Try Well House Manor in Melksham, Wiltshire
Ruby Documentation through rdoc
When you should use Object Orientation even in a short program - Python example
zip in Python
Backquote, backtic, str and repr in Python - conversion object to string
Like a bathroom company with no plumbers
Should hotel staff sit on the toilet in the customer bedrooms?
Excellent Rail News - what it really means
Managing daemons from a terminal session
The Kernel, Shells and Daemons. Greek Gods in computing
Solution looking for a problem? Lookahead and Lookbehind
More than just matching with a regular expression in PHP
Getting more than a yes / no answer from a regular expression pattern match
Melksham Pride - the Chamber of Commerce, and the future
Improving Wiltshire Rail Offer - it WILL be happening
Programming languages - what are the differences between them?
Steam train calls at Melksham - Pictures
Load path, load and require in Ruby, and a change from 1.8 to 1.9
Standard methods available on all objects in Ruby
Private, Protected, Public in Ruby. What about interfaces and abstract classes in Ruby?
Ruby of Rails - cleanly displaying model data in the view
Adding validation to form entries and sticky fields - Ruby on Rails
Providing a form to allow the user to add data to the model - Ruby on Rails
Multiple views in a single appication - sharing common parts of the template - Ruby on Rails
Some traps it's so easy to fall into in designing your web site
Alan Turing - 1912 to 1954
Melksham - a new dawn
Ruby on the web - a simple example using CGI
Hello World - Ruby on Rails - a checklist of each step
Fine evening, country walk from Melksham - pictures
Sample answers to training course exercises - available on our web site