Maintainable CSS and Code Snippets

We have two great talks lined up this month:

Maintainable CSS by Brian Kaney

Code Snippets by Gleb Bahmutov

Thanks to Rifinity (http://rifiniti.com/) for Sponsoring Pizza

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.

Code Snippets
Gleb Bahmutov

Code snippets in Chrome DevTools "Sources" tab are an extremely useful tool. A JavaScript fragment can be stored as a named snippet and executed in the current page's context, just as if it were executed from the browser's console. These snippets can be an exceptionally useful tool when investigating performance bottlenecks in web applications, and we'll talk about to leverage them in your day to day application development workflow.

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Gleb Bahmutov is JavaScript ninja, image processing expert and software quality fanatic. After receiving a PhD in computer science from Purdue University, Gleb worked on laser scanners, 3D reconstruction, and panorama-based virtual tours at EveryScape. Later Gleb switched to writing browser data visualization software at MathWorks. After a year, Gleb went back to the startup environment and developed software quality analysis tools at uTest (now Applause). Today Gleb is developing real-time financial analysis tools at Kensho.

Thanks to our Food Sponsor Rifinity (http://rifiniti.com/) for provided food and drinks.

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