I’d like to wish everyone who visits this blog a Happy New Year.

After several months searching for a job, I am hoping that 2008 brings me more luck and that by the end of the year I can be funding myself and several of my projects I want to get off the ground. My main goal for the year is to get a full time job in web development.

Once I do get a job I want to start thinking about ‘flying the nest’ so to speak. I’d love to have my own space to manage projects from. Hopefully this time next year I can be writing this post from my own place. We’ll see.

Hope everyone has a great year.

It seems like ages since I was last signed into this site and writing a blog post. Not surprising, after all that has been going on, with e107Advent, client work and traveling…

e107Advent ended on the 20th, no more releases for another year. It has been such a great thing to do, I started December thinking that I wouldn’t be able to release as much stuff as I would of liked. In the end I released something every 2 days. 9 themes and 1 theming guide that I am going to update as much as possible throughout the year. All them releases have racked up just over 1000 downloads, they will all be available all year round for all e107 users to enjoy.

Thanks has to go to Adam Roberts for creating a design for one of the themes. It gave me a much needed break to sort other things out as well as work on some development work, I am currently doing for him. News of which will hopefully follow in the next week or two.

As some of you know I am searching for a job, have been for a while and still am. The last week saw me applying for a few more jobs as well as receiving a few calls from agencies who had found my CV on Monster. I am hoping that I get something early 2008 and start the year off well. So fingers crossed for that.

Now, if your a blogger here is something that you might be interested in… A new community created for bloggers to discuss topics such as marketing, monetization, development and SEO. The community is called Blogussion and has been created by James McDonald (Designer of this blog’s design) and Oliver. Its been very helpful to me already, which is why I will be making a few changes to this blog when I get the chance.

Hopefully I will be able to fit in another post before Christmas Day but if not have a great one and enjoy it.

I just sent off my CV to another company a few minutes ago. I have to say this one I actually feel pretty good about. After looking at there website and after seeing what they do I can safely say I would love to be part of there team. I’m not just saying this because I hope that they are reading this, but I have sent off my CV to many company’s in the last few days but I have a funny feeling about this one. Can’t explain it.

I actually found the job advertised on Saturday but decided to wait till today to apply. I spent some of the weekend reading through their website, and searching for anything else I could find about the company. It would be great if I got the job as its only 1 bus away from me. Most of the other jobs I get agencies asking me about are around London or Bristol. not only is it close to me but I think it would be a great start to my career that so far hasn’t even began.

I ‘d like to think if I got this job I would be able to start to move on with my life (find a place to live etc). So wish me luck, i’ll be crossing my fingers till I get a response.

This week I am going to be creating the last few themes for my Christmas project, I am hoping they will all be done in time. If not then tough, I will just have to change my project ever so slightly. If any interviews are arranged they will take priority.