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109: With Tracy Rotton

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This week we were joined by web developer, WordPress core contributor, Sass-fan, Tracy Rotton.

We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

  • 8:22 Facebook buys Oculus Rift
  • 11:02 SPECIAL: ONE ON ONE WITH A HACKER
  • 14:11 Does most RWD look the same?
  • 19:55 Is building a non-blog with WordPress a hack?
  • 27:06 Shadow Dom

    • Q & A:

    • 32:48 I’m currently not working in a team environment but am wondering if it would be more difficult if a developer was using the heck out of @extend?
    • 37:22 Can’t we agree that it’s best to let the browser read plain CSS but let us have tools to make writing that CSS as easy and maintainable as possible?
    • 44:02 How to I pull down client changes from my live wordpress site to my local environment?
    • 50:01 I’m a WordPress Developer and I’ve noticed a disturbing trend lately. More and more clients are wanting developers that are experts with a specific commercial them? Weird, right?
    • 54:05 I have yet to make the leap to SASS or LESS. Does it become troublesome and inconvenient to work with people and projects that don’t use these new methods?

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        • Show links:

        • Tracy Rotton’s website
        • Tracy Rotton on Twitter
        • Responsive WP Theming E-book (early access)
        • SCSS @extend
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