Preprocessed Stylesheets, the Sassy Way
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · December 3 - 6, 2013
About this Presentation
Come explore SASS, a CSS preprocessor started back in 2006 and still going strong! We'll look at syntax, extensions, Compass, benefits and debugging.
Have you ever wished you could write CSS the same way you write the rest of your application? Not having conditionals, functions, math, or an easy way to modularize your CSS files wears quickly. There's a solution to all of that, and it's been around since 2006!
CSS preprocessors have grown in popularity recently with CSS frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap, ZURB Foundation, blueprint, and others. What exactly do preprocessors bring to the table? Why should I use one?
Come explore Sass, a CSS preprocessor started back in 2006 and still going strong! We'll look at syntax, extensions, Compass, benefits and debugging.
Senior Software Engineer Red Hat
Jason Porter is a software engineer currently working in the Java Enterprise Edition Space at Red Hat. His specialties include Red Hat JBoss EAP, Wildfly, Seam, CDI, JSF, Java EE, Gradle. He has worked with PHP, Ruby (both stand-alone and Rails), Groovy, XSLT, SASS, and the rest of the web language arena (HTML, CSS, JS, etc).
His current position as Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat has him work primarily on jboss.org, however, he also contributes to JBoss Forge, Arquillian, Apache DeltaSpike, Asciidoctor, Awestruct and others as time allows. He's very interested in the developer experience and helping to improve it at all aspects.