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Adobe Shadow, CSS Variables, Sass Stuff and More!

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Adobe Shadow, CSS Variables, Sass Stuff and More!

Excited about web development again

I will admit that I had been just going with the flow and not really excited about things going on in our field for a while. The new job has changed that though. I’m working on a variety of things, and FINALLY learning again. When you are not learning anything new or doing the same repetitive things over and over, things get tedious. Where I’m at now has given me what I needed to recapture. Excitement in what I’m doing. Already I have picked up some new stuff that I didn’t know before, and things are changing again in the technology we use. So I thought I’d share some of this with you.

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Where I’ve Been and Web Development Tidbits

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Where I’ve Been and Web Development Tidbits

A new year and a new job

So 2012 has already been a busy year. I’ve been working on some freelance projects, but the bigger deal is that I have taken a new position. I don’t like talking about where I work, so don’t ask. I am just not comfortable about putting that kind of info on the web. I do work in the city now (Chicago), so that is a huge change, but I’m very happy with where I’m at. Searching for jobs though was taking up a lot of my time, hence I haven’t been able to write any posts in a while. I am settling in now though, so that will change. Starting today!

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Introduction to Haml For HTML Layouts for Newbs – Part 4: Final thoughts

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Introduction to Haml For HTML Layouts for Newbs – Part 4: Final thoughts

Abstraction languages are cool

We need more of them. I only know of a few, but the ones that I do are pretty bad ass. Seems odd that the two I use were created by the same person, but if you have used Haml and Sass then you will see the connection and some of the thinking behind them.

Language abstractions make me think differently about the way I do things. Sass taught me to be a lot tighter in my CSS, and Haml showed me how you can write out an HTML page faster than lighting. In short, because of the these, I have improved as a web developer. For that alone they get my high praise and a check mark in the cool category.
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Web Development In 2011 Part 2: Are We Getting Dumber?

Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Web Development In 2011 Part 2: Are We Getting Dumber?

Still more no charge awesomeness

Before I start my small discussion on “Are We Getting Dumber”, let me just say that there is yet even more kick ass things that have come out since I wrote the first part of this little series. Sass 3.1.0 came out, and is going by the name of Brainy Betty. It added some neat stuff to its already great ability, like getting the inverse of a color, Sass based functions, keyword arguments, and more. Granted I probably won’t use a lot of it, but it is still cool that it has been updated. You can read about the improvements it received on Sass’ changelog. Just to note as well, Haml and Sass have been separated into two different gems, so you can install them independently now.

Compass received an update as well, going to version 0.11.1. Some things have changed in this new version which might force you to go back and rewrite some things if you update, but I’ll let you know about that when I upgrade this week. I read the change log and a couple of things stand out. First, is that the linear and radial gradient mixins have been deprecated. We’ll use the background-image mixin instead, and pass it a gradient function. Here is an example of the old way (from my site):

#myDiv {
@include linear-gradient(color-stops($orange, darken($orange, 25%)), left); 
}

And what it will look like now:

#myDiv {
@include background-image(linear-gradient(left, $orange, darken($orange, 25%))); }
}

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Compass Gets An App – No Command Line Needed

Friday, April 8th, 2011
Compass Gets An App – No Command Line Needed

Another post on what you think about Compass?

Oh shut up. If it wasn’t as bad ass as it is, I wouldn’t write about it. This isn’t really about Compass though. Well…it is, but more about the app that was built for it, so that users don’t have to use the command line. Honestly, if I can figure out how to at least make Compass compile my Sass through the command line, then anyone can. BUT…this makes the whole process of a hell of a lot easier.

Compass made easier

At first, I thought, the command line really isn’t that hard because you only need to know a few commands, why do I need an app to do this? Then I tried Compass.app by Handlino. After trying it out, there is only one reason why I can see someone not wanting to use this product (which only costs $7 by the way), but I’ll talk about that last.

After you have unzipped the file, and opened the app up, all that happens is that a gray version of the Compass logo appears in your task bar. When you click the icon, you get several things you can do, depending on where you are in your project. If you are starting a new one, you have a bunch of different Compass project options you can install. I went with the HTML5 Boilerplate option, since I love using it. The others are: Blueprint, basic Compass Projects, 960gs, or HTML5 Boilerplate. You can see what I’m talking about in the image below.

Compass.app project creation

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