Well its becoming apparent with my new job that I just don’t get enough time to come on here and post as much. I will try my hardest to come up with some kind of plan to make sure the blog is updated as much as possible, but till then expect a post a week.

I have started working on a few new personal projects these past 2 weeks, all of them i’m really happy with so far. Just need to find the time to complete them. Work is continuing on the e107 guides, making slow progress towards the first releasable version. Sorry to everyone who expect it in the next week or two. There is just too much to write about just the e107 basics.

As soon as I have information for you on my new projects/e107 guide then i’ll post it here. Traffic continues to increase, and additions to this site are coming (slowly). One of the bigger updates is going to include a page with aggregated “Interesting Blog’s”  but displaying more content than the current aggregator on the homepage.

Just to answer the most asked question via my contact form recently, work is great thanks. Really enjoying it so far, just wish email newsletters were easier to develop.

Decided to continue with my ‘My Picks’ posts, as my other posts I have been writing still need some finishing touches before I actually post them up. Some of my picks are just funny videos, some are great articles.

Firstly, James McDonald of EatFruitPlease has yet again created some great posts. I just have to this one post, which is his ‘Remember Quality Coding Is Worth The Same As Quality Design‘. James talks about something that is kind of releated to something that was said to me at work last week. A developer should always have a keen eye for design, what do I mean by this? Well a developer should be able to code the particular design without leaving any of the details out. So things like keeping awkward to code gradients in and making sure the code fits the original design as close as it can.

Secondly, Once again another post by James. This one titled ‘Creating A Reputation Online‘ has tips for freelancers that need a reputation online to keep work and income flowing.

Thirdly, Bryan Le of Sentences.org wrote an article about ‘The Design Brief‘. In this article Bryan gives you tips on how to create the perfect design brief for you and the client, as well as giving you a sample design brief to help you get on your way.

Finally, I made a blog post detailing some of e107’s features in my ‘Use a Content Management System?‘ post. With reasons you should try it if you use a CMS.

I should be posting some of these posts soon, some tutorials, reviews and articles are on there way.

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.