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Creating Unobtrusive Stylesheets Using Compass and Sass

Chris Eppstein

March 18, 2009
Runtime: 52:05

Compass author Chris Eppstein shows how Compass and Sass can untangle stylesheets and allow reusable styles, classes, and designs without imposing on the markup.

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Using Web Hooks

April 22, 2009

Web Hooks evangelist Jeff Lindsay describes the powerful simplicity of integrating web hooks with your application. The canonical example is a post-commit hook for source control, but Jeff shows many other examples.

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Using Ruby to Fight AIDS

April 18, 2009

In August of 2008, Jacqui Maher visited Baobab Health in Lilongwe, Malawi. Baobab is a dedicated group of programmers, clinicians and administrators developing public health and patient data administration systems. They use a variety of hardware and software technologies, but their main applications are written in Ruby on Rails.

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Magic Scaling Sprinkles

April 17, 2009

Nick Kallen uses live coding demos to show how to scale your massive web application with distribution, balance and locality.

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Discussion Panel: Ruby Application Frameworks

April 17, 2009

Many of us discovered Ruby because of Rails, but there are many more frameworks for both web development and other application domains. We have assembled authors and contributors from six of the major application frameworks written in Ruby: Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Adhearsion, RAD and Shoes. We'll get to hear what they have to say about what makes Ruby good (or bad) for building frameworks, and what opinions they have of other frameworks. Come with your questions, and demand answers!

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Tech Talks

Creating Unobtrusive Stylesheets Using Compass and Sass

Featured Talks

Using Web Hooks

April 22, 2009

Using Ruby to Fight AIDS

April 18, 2009

Magic Scaling Sprinkles

April 17, 2009

Discussion Panel: Ruby Application Frameworks

April 17, 2009

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