This past weekend at Vermont Code Camp, I caught Mike Fowler’s presentation, “Crafting Scalable Stylesheets”. In that presentation, he discusses this notion of “smart” variables (slides 32 through 35), wherein we provide an argument to a mixin (or even just a simple @if statement), and then based on that argument’s type-of value, we select a […]
Yesterday, I gave a talk (slides are here, and/or rate my talk here) at the fourth Vermont Code Camp on how to run fast, reliable, headless unit tests for JavaScript using the Jasmine BDD test framework and PhantomJS. What follows here is a summary of “the meat” of the talk: specifically, how to execute your […]
Well this one is coming up fast… I’ll be speaking at VT Code Camp 2012 this Saturday (September 22nd) at 1:30pm. The title of the talk is “Like a Genie from the Lamp: Headless JavaScript BDD with Jasmine and PhantomJS” and here’s the abstract: Jasmine is a mature BDD test framework for JavaScript, and though […]
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.