Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
Code Simplicity by Max Kanat-Alexander (published by O’Reilly, 2012) is the kind of book you might give to a junior or journeyman programmer and say: “Read this over the weekend, and then on Monday we’ll talk about your design.” There are many quotable passages, pithy aphorisms, and axioms that take the form of definitions, facts, […]
RE: Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I’m Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript …by Giles Bowkett (@gilesgoatboy); via @al3x. I read this and did a lot of head-nodding, but there was something about it that did not sit right with me. And not just the inflammatory rhetoric. 1 There was something else… Fortunately, Reginald Braithwaite summarized […]
Back in June of 2011, Nicole Sullivan and Nicholas Zakas announced CSS Lint, which they describe thusly: CSS Lint is a tool to help point out problems with your CSS code. It does basic syntax checking as well as applying a set of rules to the code that look for problematic patterns or signs of […]
This evening I deployed version 0.5 of my “Orin” theme for this blog. The main motivator for version 0.5, and thus the bulk of the changes, was to switch from a “pure Sass” project, to a Compass-based project. For some reason, I expected this to be a big effort. But boy was I wrong. First, […]
This week, I helped give a little 1 bit back to the GitHub community from which I seem to have forked so much. About a year ago, I noticed that the Sass/SCSS support was… not quite right. When I wrote the original “10 things I love about Sass” post back in August of 2010, I […]
Wrangling the CSS Beast with Sass View more presentations from Rob Friesel Here’s the slide deck from my talk on Sass at VT Code Camp 2011. If you were there, please feel free to leave some comments over at SpeakerRate … and thanks for coming out! Abstract: Sass is an extension of CSS3 that adds […]
A little under 48 hours until VT Code Camp. A little over 48 hours until I give my talk on Sass. A little nervous; but mostly just excited. Anyway… practiced my talk last night, been putting some finishing touches to it. Like I just said: mostly just excited. See you there.
They posted the VT Code Camp session list today. Still feelts a little crazy to see my name on there. It’s going to be fun, for sure. Anyway, consider this your reminder: I’ll be speaking at 4:15 in “the Web room”. My abstract: CSS Wrangling with Sass Sass is an extension of CSS3 that adds […]
Julie Lerman has announced the sessions for VT Code Camp 2011 and I’ll be there to talk about using Sass to wrangle your CSS. Session details are forthcoming.
This was originally titled “introducing Beefeater” back in February when we first brought the Mac mini into the fold but… Well, life and blogging has a funny way of getting away from you sometimes. Let us not digress: Remember Malkovich? Poor Malkovich. Malkovich did finally crash its final crash, shitting the bed with epic and […]