Sass doesn't create bad code. Bad coders do.

02 February 2012

Those who don’t see any use for pre-processors such as Sass often use the “bad code” argumentation. It creates too specific selectors due to nesting, huge sprites and they hate the way Sass enforces an architectural approach that doesn’t work. And it’s all true. If you’re a poor developer. You know, one who would handcraft too specific selectors, 15MB sprites and doesn’t know how to cleanly structure a project.

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Zurb Foundation, for Sass and Compass

22 December 2011

What do you get when combine the power of Sass with Zurb? You get Zurb Foundation for Sass and Compass. It’s the perfect flexible grid, desktop to mobile responsive, forms, buttons and UI library, plus other ZURB Playground favorites like Orbit and Reveal.

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Responsive Web Design in Sass Part 2: Media Queries in Sass

02 December 2011

In part one we talked about how Sass can help with fluid layouts and images. Now we’ll turn our attention to the new kid in town. Media queries are the tool that takes a design from fluid to truly responsive.

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Interactive Sass: Having Fun On The Terminal

22 November 2011

Most people who use Sass are familiar to some degree with the command line. While programs like Compass.app and Scout.app are making it easier to use Sass and Compass without using the command line, hidden gems await those who are willing to do so.

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How Sass Can Shape The Future of CSS

20 November 2011

The rise in popularity of CSS extensions, such as Sass, in recent years has not gone unnoticed by the people who work on proposing and standardizing modules for CSS3 (and CSS4).

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Nested Selectors: The Inception Rule

20 November 2011

It’s well known that Sass is an efficient, realiable and precise tool which gives us great power and freedom to make CSS fun and less of a pain to author; however with great power comes responsibility.

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The Sass Jerk

19 November 2011

What is it about Sass that turns me into a fanatic? How is Sass like your favorite TV show? And why am I often alone at parties?

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Sass for WordPress Plugin

22 October 2011

WordPress is a great tool for building a fully customizable blog. Now you can make it even better by adding Sass and Compass support using this simple plugin.

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