I’ve now been working for newmediaboutique for a full week and I well and truly feel like a working man!

I was a little sceptical at first having been working with an existing project, but now the team are looking at new projects which I am able to guide the development of and so feel more comfortable. Working with other developers’ code, dependant on the standard, is very time consuming and can be quite energy sapping! The first few days of working 9am - 6pm really took it out of me - hence the blog post a week after starting!

On another note, we made good use of the weekend by not only doing the usual grocery shopping etc. but also visiting the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, Wakefield. We also visited the local cinema on Saturday night to watch X-Men: The Last Stand. The film was good however the company not so good. The row in front of us had a group 5 individuals who were sharing a bottle of Courvoisier throughout the film, one individual left to get a pizza from Pizza Hut half way through and at the end of the film one proceeded to light up a spliff! We were a little annoyed to say the least so spoke to a manager about it and we were offered a pair of guest tickets in compensation. Apparently cinemas aren’t allowed any CCTV cameras trained on the audience due to copyright issues.

On Sunday, I was in our garden shed and found a wasp nest. It was only very small and there only appeared to be the one wasp tending to it. A quick bit of research showed that this will have been a queen setting up the nest by laying some workers. It could then grow to about a 1000 - 5000 strong nest. Thankfully we caught it early and destroyed it.

Anyway, I had better be off to work on what looks to be a gorgeous sunny day in West Yorkshire.