I know it’s been a while since my last post, but things at getlegal.com have been quite busy and I changed servers

On to the news.  I will be speaking at confoo.ca in Montreal about Browser Compatibility, titled/inspired by my blog post “Drawing the Line with Browser Compatibility”.  I’m very excited about the opportunity to speak about my career/passion, Web Development.  I recently gave a presentation to the Dallas PHP User Group, “Doctrine Overview”.  I think it went well and was also a good learning experience.
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Wow, it has been too long my friends, June 22nd.  I have decided to share a short rant involving the interaction of designers and developers in the work flow.

I recently read an article on smashing magazine, How to Effectively Communicate with Developers, and I can’t help but feel as the view is heavily skewed.  I have worked with  many great designers, but I have worked with equally amount of bad designers.  I’ve also worked with, seen, many bad developers who really do not posses the skills to take a design to production properly, so I feel your pain designers.  If you want a fullproof tactic to attack the problem, the solution is simple, get the developer inolved earlier.  When I worked in the advertising world here is the common scenario: Read the rest of this entry »

I just finished reading an article, Using CSS Frameworks, which is a great read.  I personally do not use any of the listed CSS Frameworks, because a few years ago I developed my own “Framework”.  I’m not trying to be a CSS elitest by using my own framework, because I truly believe a lot of CSS Frameworks are great.  The reason I still utilize my own framework/structure is the reason behind my framework, I develop the way I do to make browser compatibility easier…specifically IE 6. Read the rest of this entry »

Hey guys just a short little update of what is going on here at Jakefolio.com.

I’m currently writing some articles for a tutorial site, so I can’t post them to my site until they’ve been posted/published on the tutorial site.  I am also starting a few monthly articles.

Around the Community

This is will be a monthly article with a few common questions asked to developers from around the Web Development world.

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I started my day as I do any other day reading the blogs of great developers. I came across a new article by Jonathan Snook. His article inspired me to talk a little bit about my stance on browser compatibility.

IE 6, When can I quit you?
The dreaded IE 6.  Many developers have started campaigns to help bring people to the “modern browser” age (http://www.ie6update.com), and I definitely applaud these efforts.  I know many developers are actually writing it in their contracts that they will not support a site for IE 6.  I personally can not wait for the day I can quit supporting IE 6, but I’m sorry to say we are at least 3 years away from that day. Read the rest of this entry »