Take your RAILS app to the next level by cleaning up your views with HAML, simplifying your CSS with SASS, and enforcing good POSH/Design habits with tenplate.
Elevate your markup with HAML. Take a look at this clean, refreshing alternative to ERB's.
Simplify your markup - no more pesky closing tags or poorly nested markup. Make using "end" a vague memory. And gaze in wonder as you view the perfect whitespace and indentation in your apps source.
Boost your presentation with SASS. Like CSS on steroids SASS provides you with CSS variables, math and "mixins" allowing you to create shortcuts for commonly used rules.
Write easy to read SASS on the server side yet render compressed, optimized CSS to the client!
Bring it all together with tenplate. Add a baseline typographical grid to your site.
Create an EM based layout with a dynamic grid system.
Add custom form helpers and basic site variables.
Dan Nawara is a Chicago based Designer/Developer with 15+ years experience developing standards compliant web sites with XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.
As a front end developer Dan has helped spread clean, semantic markup to projects for Dell, Sears, Orbitz, IMSA, and many more.
Dan is a firm believer in separating style, presentation and behavior and evangelizes POSH, Microformats and forward thinking coding practices.
IIT Rice Campus
Room 103
201 East Loop Road
Wheaton, IL 60187-8489
Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on Butterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance.
From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.
From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.
Room 103 is the first room inside the north entrance.Contact Dave Hoover at dave@obtiva.com for additional information about the meeting or about Polyglot Programmers.
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