"Introduction to Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)", with Josh Timonen

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday July 14 will be "Introduction to Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)", with Josh Timonen.

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

Sass has been growing in popularity since Hampton Catlin first introduced it in 2005. Sass, which stands for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, helps you write less-verbose code with better organization.

Originally a Ruby technology, Sass can help organize and streamline any web application’s styling that uses CSS, including ColdFusion projects. You’ll see what Sass has to offer, how to set it up, and how to write it.

Come see what Sass, and it’s new variation SCSS, can do for your styling workflow.

MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/

DURATION: Approx. 1 hour

RECORDING: All meetings are recorded. The URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com

SPEAKER: (provided by the speaker)

Josh Timonen is co-founder of Secret Monkey Science LLC, which creates iOS and web applications, both independently and for third parties. He is the co-creator and voice of Screencasts.org (http://screencasts.org/), which provides free educational screencasts on web technologies. A designer and programmer, Josh has been involved in many aspects of multimedia creation. He previously worked at Intel Corporation as a software technician/engineer, where he contributed to the development of Serial ATA. He has contributed to several Hollywood feature films in various capacities, including main title design and web design.

WHEN: Thurs. July 14, 6:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-4)

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Syntactically Awesome Style SheetsJosh Timonen is co-founder of Secret Monkey Science LLC, which creates iOS and web applications, both independently and for third parties. He is the co-creator and voice of Screencasts.org, which provides free educational screencasts on web technologies. A designer and programmer, Josh has been involved in many aspects of multimedia creation. He previously worked at Intel Corporation as a software technician/engineer, where he contributed to the development of Serial ATA. He has contributed to several Hollywood feature films in various capacities, including main title design and web design.