 it was a busy week at work this week but a good busy i was slicing a site and implementing it into wordpress its going to be a good edition to my portfolio when its done so enough of the small talk this is what i found interesting this week microsofts interoperability principles and ie8 we awoke on monday morning to very interesting news weve decided that ie8 will by default interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can this decision is a change from what weve posted previously creating a successful online portfolio great article discussing the common mistakes in online portfolios and 12 principles of effective portfolio design extensible css interface ii css selectors jquery the second article in the four part series the highly extensible css interface this one touches on some jquery and attribute selectors a list apart issue 254 two great articles on design on creativity and design is in the details i found both articles to be really interesting especially since design is the area that i am trying to improve the most in first impressions of internet explorer 8 beta 1 thats right everyone ie8 beta 1 is available for download roger gives a nice round up of its improvements and its shortcomings so far coding for the mobile web chris mills from opera discusses the dos and donts of coding for the mobile web i still think that its not really going to explode until we see more interfaces like the iphone and until cell phone carriers reduce the price of their unlimited data plans but still some good tips for the time being workplace experiments my co worker flagged this to me four day work weeks freedom to buy a book or software whenever that sounds amazing oh and in other news my brand spanking new 15 macbook pro should be arriving monday the anticipation is killing me i didnt know they ship from china 