"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.


They do weddings, we do courses.
Should Government compete with private industry?
Bath to Melksham buses - times
Joining a MySQL table from within a Python program
Melksham to London (Heathrow, and Central London)
Cost of Sales
Sleeping in on Sunday
Factory methods and SqLite in use in a Python teaching example
The Light bulb moment when people see how Object Orientation works in real use
Course Lunches
The Perl Survey
Tell the Melksham Chamber or you only have yourself to blame
The 500 pound question to get you started
Formatted Printing in Python
The history and future of Melksham Chamber of Commerce
Learning to program in Python 2 ... and / or in Python 3
Blowing our own trumpet
Regional Spatial Strategy and the next 20 years - Whence Wiltshire under the new government?
Declarations of interest - knowing where you stand with people
PHP - Object Oriented Design in use
Dynamically watching your web site via a PHP wrapper
Graham Ellis - Summary of Training Record
Melksham to Calne by public transport
Melksham Chamber of Commerce - Presidents report to AGM
Easy - but for whom?
Carrying a long URL around - looking for memorable shorts
Back from a Python course in Glasgow
Optional and named parameters to Python functions/methods
Running operating system commands from your Python program
Python decorators - your own, staticmethod and classmethod
Our C and C++ training course are on Open Source platforms
Well House - Mission and Policy summaries
A small business, facing a big government questionnaire
Views of Scotland
Touching base
But what will you DO with all those pictures?
Bodicea, Lincoln, and our new MP
Same subject - different pictures
Books in the store in the USA - still a portent of the UK market to come?
At Arlington and the Pentagon