Having now less commute and more time to do various other things than being sat on trains, I thought I’d dig the sourdough bread starter out of the fridge and feed it up with a view to baking some bread over the weekend.

In theory… I’m meant to feed this every 2/3 weeks to keep the thing from going rancid and dying. However, I’m lazy, and I’ve got it on good authority that it can endure several months of neglect – which this has had.

The brown liquid is basically moonshine – not very tasty (of course I tried) – but indeed alcoholic (…of course I tried).

So, I poured this off, and the starters’ gone pretty thick – as you can see. You can pretty much tell by the smell that all’s well here, so I fed it. Warm water + 100g of flour. Whisked it up, and I’ll take a photo again in the morning where I expect to see some hardcore bubble action.

EDIT: Added the bubbling… See the last image.

No, you do no need to use custom templates to do this.

Looking at the C5 area documentation, you will find these two methods available to you;

$area->setBlockWrapperStart($html)
//The passed $html will be printed out before every block in the area.

$area->setBlockWrapperEnd($html)
//The passed $html will be printed out after every block in the area.

Fairly self explanatory – just make sure you call them after you instantiate the new class;

$heading = new Area('Heading');
$heading->setBlockWrapperStart('<div class="heading">');
$heading->setBlockWrapperEnd('</div>');
$heading->display($c);

“everyone gets to make one big mistake. and if your waiting on me well i guess your gonna have to wait. cus im saving mine up for a very very special day. when i can fuck it all up in the most spectacular way.”

I’ve been using Tank Auth for a few CodeIgniter projects recently which, if you haven’t checked out, is a great way to get started quickly and securely with some simple user authentication.

For my future reference as much as anything else, I was having some problems with it quite randomly logging me out, and after a lot of digging I arrived at pining the blame on my use of the Google jQuery CDN. Not entirely sure why that is causing the problem, but since removing it, so far so good.

Hopefully I will post back with a bit more info once I’ve had time to dig further.

Last week, I resigned from my job. Not an easy thing to do when your best friend lectures you about the recession and the fact that you haven’t actually got anything at all lined up.

However, I’m firm believer in just having a good bit of faith in myself, and that generally, when needed to and when either jumping or stepping into the abyss, it’s worth remembering that it only ever comes up to your knees.

So what am I to do now? I’m a web developer. In fact, to describe myself as just a web developer really doesn’t do justice to what it is I’m good at.

I’m at my best working across disciplines, directly with customers and businesses who not only require sound web design and development, but also need advice about how people might use and engage with their products. I like to think that I might change the way people will do business, and show them better ways to realise their ideas.

In recent years, I’ve helped bring a small design agency into the world of digital design and development, and seen that company grow so invaluable to it’s clients, that it was acquired by one.

Before that, I had the good fortune to blend work and pleasure by helping to found a unique music industry startup – from the heady days of planning it in the pub, the UI planning and design, and finding and working with a small team of talented Rails developers – this was the most fun you could have in a rented loft.

I’ve managed development teams – both my native PHP fellows, and also Rails developers. I’m also perfectly happy and resourceful enough to work on my own – knowing enough to bring a project to life from scoping, through to deployment.

I’ve built and managed e-commerce sites, price comparison services, download stores, blogs and much more.

Most good things start over coffee or a pint, so if I sound like someone you’d like to work with, then please get in touch.

Quite honestly, there wasn’t much in it. I’d like to think that I have more to say than I can fit on one line, and I’d like to think that I have a bigger attention span than twitter seems to want to impose on me. Every time I try and keep up with it, I end up feeling like I’ve gorged on too much internet.

So I installed WordPress (which, as a developer, makes me feel like I’ve gorged on yesterdays’ dominos pizza, and will likely wake up with a slice attached to my face. But that’s another post).