DCRUG: CSS and Dave Bock

Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.

Current agenda:

Doug March - PostCSS and CSS-Modules

An overview of some new(ish) tools and techniques in the world of Cascading Style Sheets. The good, the bad, and what very well could be the future.

These tools look to help eliminate the time it takes to write quality CSS (http://lh3.ggpht.com/-7mLGeB7aN4k/U97lgtHmyHI/AAAAAAAAAnU/TWKSHFpCYyk/css-sucks-working-with-css_thumb%25255B2%25255D.gif?imgmax=800). While at the same time, removing that terrible feeling when refactoring it (http://img.pandawhale.com/58061-wwwfunnypictureblogcom-VzH9.gif). This all means, more time for fun & profit!!!

Dave Bock - Things Computer Scientists Know: Generating ‘Random’ Numbers

Generating random numbers on the computer is easy, right? Every language has some version of a rand(n) function…
Not so fast… How does a computer, which reliably and repeatedly executes the same code over and over generate ‘random’ numbers? And why do I keep putting ‘random’ in quotes?
I’m going to talk about true randomness, why it (almost) doesn’t exist in computing, and why your computer can’t properly shuffle a deck of cards.