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Derek just sent me a link to a Firefox extension that performs validation of the HTML of the current page.

Unlike most, it does this without sending the HTML to an external site, so I can use it for my internal web pages. Also, it does this for every page and displays an icon in the status bar.

Very cool.

HTML Validation Extension

Here’s an interesting optical illusion

Our two day adventure in making cheese is almost over, all we need to do now is drive home. We met some great people and learnt a great deal about how to make cheese for small scale production.

The hands on part was great, split into 8 groups, we made two different cheeses – feta and havarti. I was in a group making the feta and Lisa made the other. Being able to see what other people were doing differently, whilst following the same instructions was very informative. All of the cheeses turned out to be edible, but some were better than others. Our feta was a little over-salted (my fault), but tasted ok later on the second day.

Dave Potter taught us all about starters and cultures, this can be a very technical area, and it did seem that way for most people, but knowing the process that is going on will help us control it better. Dave also did a section on how to control the process, which things can be changed, what happens to other parts if you do change them.

The key thing with any question about making cheese is: It Depends! There are so many different ways of doing any one part of the process that you just have to do it yourself to learn it. Also, as we saw earlier, everyone follows instructions differently, so there is rarely a definititive answer.

I just noticed that the flyer for this course has four pictures of Leon of Llangloffan Farmhouse Cheese making his cheese on the front.

Coincidence? I don’t think so…

Right in the middle of a blog about corporate stuff, there’s some posts about cheese.

Two Gems From Neal’s Yard Diary

Its also here: http://www.ninemoons.typepad.com/the_cheese_forum/2005/08/two_gems_from_n.html

HTML forms have always had strange issues. Here’s one I came across today that I’ve not seen before.

I have some HTML that looks like this:

  <p>
    <label for="foo">Foo<label>
    <div class="error">
      <input type="text".... />
    </div>
  </p>

The Firefox browser renders this as if it was:

  <p>
    <label for="foo">Foo<label>
  </p>
  <div class="error">
    <input type="text".... />
  </div>

The div causes the p* element to be closed early. The Firefox DOM inspector shows this quite nicely.

My fix was to remove the *p tags and use CSS to get the layout the way I want.

Lisa and I are heading to Idaho next week to participate in this cheese making course.

Farmstead & Artisan Cheese Making

An unusual use for cheese.

Cheese Cake

Here are the cheese related blogs that I read from time to time:

Big Cheese Stories

Pacific Northwest Cheese Project

The Cheese Diaries

The Cheese Guy

I’ve been learning Ruby and Rails for 2 months now (since I quit my day job), and I’m liking it. This is my first live deployment of a Rails project – but not one that I’ve written code for (yet).

This blog is hosted at http://rubyonrailshost.com/, and is implemented by an installation of Typo. The main application isn’t in place yet, but the Blog is running great!

I’ve been learning Ruby and Rails for 2 months now (since I quit my day job), and I’m liking it. This is my first live deployment of a Rails project – but not one that I’ve written code for (yet).

This blog is hosted at http://rubyonrailshost.com/, and is implemented by an installation of Typo. The main application isn’t in place yet, but the Blog is running great!