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So... what have I been up to?

It's been awfully silent at this blog for exactly two months tomorrow. Although I could (and should) have made time to write exciting content, I was too busy to even consider it. Here's why. read more

Recap: wroc_love.rb

Last Monday I returned from a 4 day trip to Wrocław, Poland. Here I attended and spoke at wroc_love.rb, a two day, single track Ruby conference. A good little conference with friendly people, set in a great country. Highly recommended! read more

Using Sass' @each to create DRY selectors

Just a quick article based on a post by Nathan Weizenbaum in the Sass Google Group on how to use the @each directive to create DRY selectors. Maybe not the most elegant solution, but it may be just what you were be looking for. read more

RubyNation: March 23 & 24

March is going to be a busy month: I'll be speaking at RubyNation too, which will take place on March 23 & 24 in Reston, VA (USA). My presentation will be about how to create modular and truly reusable front-end code with HTML5, Sass & CoffeeScript, just as in Poland. read more

Sass doesn’t create bad code. Bad coders do.

Those who don’t see any use for pre-processors such as Sass often use the “bad code” argumentation. It creates too specific selectors due to nesting, huge sprites and they hate the way Sass enforces an architectural approach that doesn’t work. And it’s all true. If you’re a poor developer. You know, one who would handcraft too specific selectors, 15MB sprites and doesn’t know how to cleanly structure a project. read more

Wroc_love.rb: March 10 & 11

I'm happy to announce that I'll be speaking at wroc_love.rb, which will take place on March 10 & 11 in Wrocław, Poland. My presentation will be about how to create modular and truly reusable front-end code with HTML5, Sass & CoffeeScript. read more

Stop abusing the placeholder attribute

The placeholder attribute saves web developers from using JavaScript solutions to tackle a simple task: display a placeholder text in a form input. Right now though, the bulk of all forms using this attribute is doing it wrong. read more

Static site using nanoc

This site now runs on nanoc, a static site generator running on Ruby. The old Wordpress install went out the window and I only migrated two posts. read more