Issue #108

April 28, 2014

Nicole Sullivan on the Value of Optimising Code

Martin Cooper

In this interesting interview Nicole Sullivan tells why bubblegum, carpentry and pianos hold lessons for performance-conscious coders.

Our CSS/Sass Project Architecture and Styleguide

Bruno Azevedo

Bruno Azevedo detailly describes Group Buddies’ process for making design come to life. He covers the CSS/Sass files and folders’ architecture, their code guidelines and approach to Pattern Libraries.

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Articles & Tutorials

Readable, Fluid Type With Basic CSS Smarts

Val Head

Val Head explains how to create great looking typography for all screen sizes and resolutions without a lot of complex code.

CSS True Titles

Tyler Gaw

Tyler Gaw shares a couple of useful and creative CSS techniques and tricks while recreating incredible opening sequence of the show True Detective.

Element Queries, From the Feet Up

Daniel Buchner

Daniel Buchner explains what element queries are, why are they difficult to implement in browsers and what are your current options for using them.

Less and Sass Toolbox

If you’re using a preprocessor you’ll find these articles on LESS and Sass tools invaluable.

3 Stunning Css Animation Effects That Will Captivate Your Users

Will Newton

Will Newton demonstrates a couple of nice animation effects and explains how to create them.

Sass Unit Testing

Matias Singers

A very nice introduction to Sass unit testing by Matias Singers.

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Tools

Bootcamp

Bootcamp is a Jasmine-style behavior-driven development framework for testing Sass code.

True

A tool for creating Compass/Sass logical unit tests. At this point True can only test values, not property/value output, so the author recommends using it with version-control for integration testing by comparing changes in output files.