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Frontend session proposals to Portland Drupalcon due today!
As the local track chair for the frontend track, I'm posting this to encourage any last-minute session proposals bouncing around in your head to get typed out and proposed today.That's right: Today's...
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A world-class frontend track at Drupalcon Portland
The big news at Drupalcon Portland is that, for the first time at a Drupalcon, we're having separate frontend and user experience (UX) tracks. That means we were able to offer even more sessions...
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Ninjas in your code at Drupalcon Portland: SASS with extends and placeholders
It's fair to say that in the last year, adopting the CSS preprocessor SASS has completely changed frontend development for me. That's a sentiment I've heard others express when they started using it —...
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Grow your own: Learning custom base themes at Drupalcon Portland
Ah, base themes.If there's an analogue to the Windows/Mac/Linux battle in Drupal land, it's probably Zen vs. Omega vs. AdaptiveTheme.Garrett Dawson and John Ferris have a way out of that eternal...
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Drupal 8, aural interfaces and groundbreaking accessibility at Drupalcon...
I'm a millennial, but even I remember the experience of calling the telephone operator and getting a live human to look up the number of a business or place a collect call. We have the digital means to...
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Drupal 8 and the power of Twig: A Drupalcon Portland featured session
A new theming engine, Twig, is coming along with Drupal 8's adoption of the Symfony framework. And it's downright magical.Instead of having theme functions that have to be overridden, everything...
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Drupalcon Portland: Responsive web design in a snap with Breakpoint and Sass
Media queries are a key part of responsive web design, because they control at what width (among other things) different CSS rules kick in."Breakpoint makes writing media queries in Sass super simple,"...
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We need to talk about your stylesheets: An interview with Jonathan Snook at...
This is an intervention.CSS is pretty simple. Classes, IDs, elements and pseudo-elements, with style definitions attached to each. Calling it a "language" is a bit of a stretch (though preprocessors...
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Join me at the Devsigner conference in Portland this May: Designers and...
Devsigner is celebrating the cross-overs, the multi-disciplinarians, the coders who paint and the designers who send pull requests — and those who want to develop some new left-right brain skills.We’re...
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