Sa$$Y Bling

Huzzah! This month we take a look at the cool, shiny things you can do with Sass that would be maddeningly difficult, if not impossible, to do with CSS. We'll hear from three incredibly talented developer-designers–John Refano, Scott Kellum, and Albert Tholen.

John Refano (@threehz) will be giving a guided tour of some of the things he has built for Behance, showing how Sass can make your life a lot easier and help out with the creation some cool visual effects. You may even learn more about plain old CSS3 in the process.

Scott Kellum (@scottkellum) made Sassy Modular Scale (https://github.com/scottkellum/modular-scale), a Sass project inspired by and adapted from Tim Brown's modularscale.com (http://modularscale.com/). Check out the great article (http://thesassway.com/projects/modular-scale) about this project on The Sass Way ( http://thesassway.com/projects/modular-scale ) and then come learn from Scott how he built and uses Sassy Modular Scale to bring harmony to his designs and projects.

Albert Tholen (@albert_tholen) wrote a Sass script extension to bring the math behind Photoshop's powerful soft-light gradient blending mode to Sass, which eliminates the need for making soft-light gradient backgrounds manually and allows a designer to create beautiful CSS3 gradients in-browser.

Our lightening talk dives into Control Directives, a pretty killer Sass feature that sets it apart from the other CSS Preprocessors. Good prep read: http://thesassway.com/intermediate/if-for-each-while

Speakers

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John Refano (johnrefano.com (http://www.johnrefano.com/) | @threehz (http://twitter.com/threehz/)) is a web developer with a degree in design, residing in Brooklyn, NY. He is member of the dev team at Behance, and an long time Sass enthusiast. He loves CSS3 and making things as beautiful as they are functional.

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Scott Kellum (scottkellum.com (http://www.scottkellum.com) | @scottkellum (http://twitter.com/scottkellum/)) is a designer of all trades: graphic, web, typeface, print, publication. He currently works for Vox Media. Scott is behind many Sass extensions from Sassy Math (https://github.com/scottkellum/Sassy-math) to Singularity (http://singularity.gs/), a responsive grid system designed to be as flexible and small as possible while still providing an enormous amount of power. Scott also resides in Brooklyn, NY.

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Albert Tholen (@albert_tholen (http://twitter.com/albert_tholen)) is a web development intern for Lua Technologies, Inc. (http://getlua.com/) He studies film and computer science at Wesleyan University. There, he works on web design and development when his schoolwork sees fit to grant him some free time.

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