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087: With Nicolas Gallagher

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This week we were joined by Nicolas Gallagher, CSS expert. We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

* 8:29 EFF gets involved in DRM

Q & A:

  • 13:40I want an automated way to produce styles guides. How do you produce guides for your clients? Have you been able to automate the process?
  • 18:23 Any insight into IE downloading inapplicable stylesheets?
  • 35:23 I’m a huge fan of inline blocks. Is there any other reason why the whole world is using floats?
  • 41:10 I want to create a blog for myself, to document and share what I learn. Is it crazy NOT to use a CMS?
  • 49:23 I’m applying for a dev job with a company and they use LESS. What are the key things I need to bare in mind when changing from Sass to LESS?

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      • 47:24 Enviornments for Humans – Artifact Conf November 4–6 in Providence, RI. A fantastic 2 day, single track conference about front end. The theme is “Multi-Device World”. Some great workshops:

        • Build Responsively by Ben Callahan
        • Sass for Beginners by Matt Griffen
        • CSS Animation by Val Head
        • Responsive Designer Patterns by Brad Frost
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          • More Links:

          • Nicolas’ Website
          • Nicolas on Twitter
          • KSS Ruby Gem
          • Brad Frost’s Pattern Lab
          • “Mobile first” CSS and getting Sass to help with legacy IE
          • Testing for Asynchronous Load of Inapplicable CSS StyleSheets (github)
          • Centering in the Unknown – CSS Tricks Article
          • Dave Rupert – “A Brander Newer Blog”
          • Jekyll – A Static Site Generator
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