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How IE8 Determines Document Mode

How IE8 Determines Document Mode: http://tinyurl.com/yg4r66y

March 03, 2010

Interviewing front-end engineer

Great general advice on job interviews, and specifically for a front-end engineer from Nicholas Zakas at Yahoo!: http://tinyurl.com/ycb2bj2

February 13, 2010

The Snowflake Man

“No one design was ever repeated. When a snowflake melted, that design was forever lost.” The Snowflake Man: http://snowflakebentley.com/

February 07, 2010

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akikoo.org realign

Time goes quickly — especially on the web — so I though it was time to realign and give this site a new, fresh look. While streamlining the site and reorganising some of the content, I changed to HTML5 DOCTYPE (divs with HTML5 class names rather than the new HTML5 elements UPDATE: now using the new HTML5 structural elements, with the HTML5 IE enabling script), and applied some CSS3 enhancements for browsers that support them. More »

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Background

I graduated from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland with a Master’s degree in Information System Science in 2002 (see my Master’s Thesis). I have more than seven years of professional experience in the field of web design and development. Currently I’m working as a Frontend Web Developer & User Interface Designer at a Brussels-based communication agency Qwentes S.A.

What I do

• Create websites that are clean, optimised, standards compliant, and easy to navigate, use and maintain. Specialised in web frontend technologies, but able to work with backend scripting and databases too (mainly PHP/MySQL).
• HTML, CSS & JavaScript Development. Writing semantic and clean markup, using CSS for presentation, adding JavaScript for behaviour, optimizing downloadable assets, and minimizing HTTP requests.
• Blog & CMS Design and Integration. Using ExpressionEngine, MODx, Joomla, WordPress and ShadoCMS to build websites.
• User Interface Design. Creating interfaces that make it easy to navigate the pages and find content.
• SEO. Getting higher search engine rankings by writing clean code and using Web Stats & Analytics software.

Languages and tools

• HTML
• CSS
• XML
• SQL
• JavaScript, jQuery AJAX
• ExpressionEngine
• WordPress
• Joomla!
• MODx
• ShadoCMS
• Photoshop, GIMP
• Git, SVN
• Ubuntu Linux
• Windows XP
• Mac OSX

Additional interests

• Relational database (MySQL) design & management
• PHP
• ERD
• Usability
• Accessibility
• Typography
• Microformats
• HTML5
• Desktop publishing (InDesign, PageMaker, Scribus)
• Everything Open Source