Engine Yard, Inc.

S01E28: Chris Eppstein

June 24, 2011

Chris Eppstein talks with us about Compass and SASS.

• 00:10 Introductions
• 01:10 Current projects for Caring.com
• 02:06 History of working with Ruby
• 02:49 Getting involved with Sass
• 05:02 Importance of Sass
• 06:05 Eppstein’s RailsConf 2011 talk
• 08:15 History of Compass
• 11:30 Ways to contribute to Compass
• 13:30 Eppstein’s contributions to Sass
• 15:20 Sass vs Scss syntaxes
• 20:00 Less vs Sass
• 23:00 Frameworks outside of blueprint
• 24:50 First steps for integrating Sass or Compass
• 27:30 Mixin vs Class
• 31:45 New features of Sass and Compass

Links: "Caring.com":http://www.caring.com/ "Sass":http://sass-lang.com/ "RailsConf 2011 talk":http://en.oreilly.com/rails2011/public/schedule/detail/19066 "Compass":http://compass-style.org/ "Compass Mixins":http://compass-style.org/index/mixins/ "Contribute to Compass":http://compass-style.org/help/tutorials/contributing/ "Blueprint":http://www.blueprintcss.org/ "Nanoc":http://nanoc.stoneship.org/ "Susy":http://susy.oddbird.net/ "Less":http://lesscss.org/ "Haml":http://haml-lang.com/ "Merge of Compass and Lemonade":http://chriseppstein.github.com/blog/2010/09/11/compass-merging-with-lemonade/