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Wild World Web and Maintainable CSS

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We have two great talks lined up this month:

Wild World Web: Web Development in a World of Ever-Changing Browsers, Platforms & Compatibilities by Rob Larsen

Maintainable CSS by Brian Kaney

Rob will also be giving away two copies of his book The Uncertain Web (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QUBHNQC?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=B00QUBHNQC&linkCode=shr&tag=drunkenfistcom&linkId=TCHOGLNBKTYXWZKA&sr=&qid=)

Thanks to Vermonster (http://www.vermonster.com/) for sponsoring Pizza

Wild World Web by Rob Larsen

How can front-end web developers make the transition out of developing with known goals and tools into the new world of development in the midst of uncertainty?

Approaching the web today requires that the web developer let go of hard and fast rules, and begins to design for uncertainty.

Embracing uncertainty as a core tenet of web development and scrapping the rules we've relied on in the past few years is the best bet for creating future proof web solutions. By combining web standards, progressive enhancement, an iterative approach to design and development and a desire to question the status quo; web development teams can create sites and applications that should perform well in a wide range of present and future devices. By focusing on optimal solutions with intelligent fallbacks and forgoing the desire for absolute solutions, design and development can work together to create a web that is fast, widely available and reliable.

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Rob is an experienced front end engineer, team lead and manager. Since 1999 (that's Web 1.0, if you're keeping track) been building web sites and applications for some of the world's biggest brands.

Rob is an active writer and speaker on web technology with a special focus on emerging standards like HTML5, CSS3 and the ongoing evolution of the JavaScript programming language. He is co-author ofProfessional jQuery (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118026683/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=drunkenfistcom&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1118026683), the author of Beginning HTML and CSS (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1118340183/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=drunkenfistcom&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1118340183) and the author of The Uncertain Web (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QUBHNQC?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=B00QUBHNQC&linkCode=shr&tag=drunkenfistcom&linkId=TCHOGLNBKTYXWZKA&sr=&qid=), from O'Reilly. He's also active in the open source community (https://github.com/roblarsen).

In his career Rob has spent time at Sapient Global Markets, Isobar, The Brand Experience, Cramer and as an independent consultant. Over the course of his career Rob has solved unique problems for clients like Samsung, Motorola, Philips, Gillette, Boston’s Museum of Science, and Harvard Kennedy School.

Maintainable CSS

by Brian Kaney

There is a tendency in web apps to end up with super long and confusing stylesheets and superfluous markup. These problems lead to poor performance, testability challenges, and overall un-maintainablity -- building new features end up taking way more time and effort than they should.

Luckily there are ways to combat this. We can use patterns from leading front-end frameworks, add CSS pre-processors to our dev stack, and follow emerging modular methodologies.

This talk will draw from experiences we've had at Vermonster over the years and try to hone in on the "right" level of abstraction and semantics, and the importance of conventions when sharing development across a diverse team.

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Brian is an owner at Vermonster (http://www.vermonster.com/), a consulting firm in Boston that helps companies design, build and deploy clean and clear technology products. They use modern technology (like Ruby on Rails) and best practices like agile project management and test-driven design.

Thanks to our Food Sponsor Vermonster for provided food and drinks.

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