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I'm not related to Adobe, but I do co-manage an Adobe software users group for ColdFusion. Adobe has been really good to the group, giving us shirts and pens (swag items), plus two huge software giveaways every year, and lots of other benefits for my co-manager and I. That's my disclaimer. I like …
Last Wednesday, I had the great pleasure of showing off LESS CSS to the ColdFusion community at Adobe MAX. I had a good crowd for the unconference area, I would say maybe 40 people. Honestly, that unconference tent was too small for this group, and the area was noisy, but that's all part of the …
Foreword: I am giving a LESS CSS talk at the Adobe MAX 2011 ColdFusion Unconference. Blogging about LESS is just one of my stepping stones to presenting. If you want the really good stuff, you should come to my session! I recently blogged about LESS ports to other platforms , and I thought about …
Last July I gave my presentation, Holistic Program Quality and Technical Debt to the Denver CFUG , for my friend John Blayter . This is cool and stuff, but the truly impressive thing is that the audio and video is consistent all the way through, and the awful jokes were even relatively funny. If …
Something I enjoy about LESS is how its ecosystem is a microcosm of a lot of other more well known software ecosystems. There are competitors, contributors, and even ports to other languages. I'm going to talk about those ports today. Aside from the original Ruby release and the subsequent …
You are not as far from using LESS CSS as you may think. What does it take to switch from plain CSS to LESS? It's 2 steps. Rename your .css file to a .less file Include less.js That's it! From there, you can start to add some variables and nest your selectors, or get more advanced with mixins and …
Foreword: I am giving a LESS CSS talk at the Adobe MAX 2011 ColdFusion Unconference. Blogging about LESS is just one of my stepping stones to presenting. If you want the really good stuff, you should come to my session! A few weeks ago I stumbled on a CSS shapes demo, The Shapes of CSS from a …
A couple weeks ago Scott Hanselman blogged JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web . He's right. We now write programs that generate Javascript. We have languages that compile to Javascript, and not just a few! Javascript is our lowest-level language for client-side development. Scott …
Foreword: I am giving a LESS CSS talk at the Adobe MAX 2011 ColdFusion Unconference. Blogging about LESS is just one of my stepping stones to presenting. If you want the really good stuff, you should come to my session! Today I am making public a tool I created to work with LESS CSS. This is a …
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Foreword: I am giving a LESS CSS talk at the Adobe MAX 2011 ColdFusion Unconference. Blogging about LESS is just one of my stepping stones to presenting. If you want the really good stuff, you should come to my session! A couple years ago I mentioned the LESS CSS project . I stated one problem …
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