I have decided to hold back on some of the posts I have created, as I know for a fact now I am working I will need to write all the blog content in advance, just starting to build up a selection of posts/articles to keep this blog alive.

So this post is going to be a bit different I will be posting my selection of blog posts I have read this week and enjoyed. Some are just funny silly videos, some are normal clever articles.

Firstly, Jon Wheatley of j0n.org posted a video after picking up a tablet off the floor thinking it was proplus. Ofcourse it wasn’t and the effects can be seen in the video on the post.

Secondly, James McDonald has been busy this past week creating post after post. He posted a list of 10 Top E-Commerce Website Designs, of course these were his personal opinion but he has chosen wisely. A great post for some ideas/inspiration for any E-Commerce sites your working on or planning.

Thirdly, HTML 5 Specs have been released. Been clouded over by talks about an IE6 autoupdate as well as IE8 talk, SitePoint has posted a quick overview for people who don’t want to read the whole spec.

Finally just around the corner from the 383 office a rather random natural wonder happened. I give you The Birmingham Geyser.

Just one of the questions I was emailed these past 2 weeks. Well I have now found time to quickly answer this question.

I have got myself a job, after looking on and off for about a year. On Monday 21st I started working as a freelancer for a creative agency called 383project. The work I do for them is basically coding their wonderful designs into XHTML & CSS, as well as script integration (things like Wordpres & e107). I work for 3 days a week for them and the guys are nice enough to let me work the other 2 days in the office to do my own work without any distractions, like the ones I would get working at home.

My first week went very well, I was a bit nervous on the first day. But now it feels like i’ve been working there for months. I actually look forward to getting into the office to start working on whatever is on my to-do list. The list tends to grow day by day just as fast as I cross things off.

So thats my answer to ‘Where have you been?’. I will hopefully post quite a few posts this week focusing on blogs I started to read in 2007 and how they interest me and how they might interest you.

Firstly, CSSHive gained a new feature a few days back. This feature allows sites that are submitted to CSSHive to become the featured site of the day, which means they will be featured on the homepage with a bigger screenshot. If your site becomes featured ultimately you can be sure that your traffic for that day will shoot up. So go and submit your sites.

I am personally very proud to have been part of CSSHive and its creation, its seems to be doing very well so far which is something thats always nice to know about a project you have worked on.

Secondly, I had an interview on Monday and fingers crossed I will hear something in the next few days. I am currently waiting for an email with a test project for me to complete and send back to them. Personally I think the interview went great, and my experience with e107. went down well. I showed them e107 running on my laptop and I would say they liked what they saw instantly.

Thirdly, My e107 guide/manual project hasn’t really progressed in the last week but after I have finished up some client work and done some of my own work I will be focusing more of my time writing away to get a quite sizable guide/manual out. Other work I am doing for e107 may also slow the writing down but it will be worth it.

Lastly, I updated a few of my e107Advent themes since my last blog post. Details of the updates can be seen on the e107Advent website. More updates will be coming soon.