Rapid Site Development with Sass & Compass

Sass gives us the ability to truly separate structure from style. This flexibility opens up many possibilities for architecting sites. For our second NYC Sass Meetup we are excited to have Jackie Balzer, senior front-end developer at Behance, and Steve Berry, user experience designer and founder of Thought Merchants, present on how they have leveraged Sass to build highly customizable sites–quickly.

Jackie recently launched 17 sites in 5 days using Sass (http://blog.behance.net/dev/how-we-used-sass-to-build-17-websites-in-five-days). Jackie will take us through a full demo of building a Served site. Steve Berry will be sharing his experiences from his time as Director of User Experience at Efficiency 2.0 where he white-labeled many sites using Sass and Compass. Steve will present on how to leverage the magic of SASS to create a quick style guide to design a site or app.

They will each present for 30-45 minutes and there will be a 5 minute lightening talk on new killer new feature, silent extends.

If you are new to Sass or need any help, please feel free to come early (6:40) and we'll do our best to help answer your questions or get you up and running. We will start around 7:15 to give time for train snafus or that final git push before you skedaddle from work. Come at 7pm for drinks and snacks and to connect with NYC #teamSass

Presenter Bios:

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Jackie Balzer is a web developer living in Brooklyn, NY. She loves beer, cats, online shopping, and of course, Sass and CSS. She leads the awesome front-end development team at Behance, paving the way to ultimate CSS modularity, maintainability, speed and efficiency by constantly experimenting and utilizing Sass. She sometimes skateboards and is learning to play the accordion.

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Steve Berry is the founder of Thought Merchants (www.thoughtmerchants.com (http://www.thoughtmerchants.com/)) user experience and design consultancy. Steve works with start-ups, and emerging companies creating usable online and offline experiences. He is an active member of Agile User Experience Group in NYC. Steve previously was the User Experience Director at Efficiency 2.0 translating energy and behavioral science research into simple and engaging experiences. He received a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design.