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17. December 2015

Sass Clearfix Mixin

MIXIN

 USAGE

Simple is king :)

Enjoy coding …

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16. December 2015

Angular 2.0 Beta goes live

Angular reaches BETA status. Time to start playing with it … Perfect for the holidays :)

With NativeScript und React Native you will be able to build native Android- und iOS-Apps as well.

Tutorial / GitHub

Enjoy coding …

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Bourbon is one of the Sass Mixins libraries that always makes it into my projects :)

You will find Mixins for

  1. Animation / Keyframes / Transitions
  2. Image handling
  3. Columns
  4. Fonts
  5. Flexbox
  6. Media Queries
  7. Text decorations
  8. and more

Bourbon @ Github

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Just a couple of links that deal with the usage or testing of structured data.

Structured data is not yet relevant for content rankings, but that might change in the future (Hangout).

“Structured data markup” is a standard way to annotate your content so machines  can understand and categorize it. Proper usage elevates the way data is displayed on Google Search, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and many others, when one of your content links is posted there.

INTEGRATION

MEDIA

TESTING

Really looking forward to the JSON-LD integration :)

 

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CSS Crush is a standards inspired CSS pre-processor that is written in PHP from scratch.

MAIN FEATURES

  1. Auto-prefixing
  2. Variables
  3. Direct @import
  4. Nesting
  5. Rule inheritance
  6. Abstract rules
  7. Functions
  8. Selector grouping
  9. Selector aliases
  10. Mixins
  11. Fragments

For a current project I am adding CSS Crush side by side to Sass. Lets see which of them sticks around in the end :)  Might be keeping them both, as CSS Crush provides some nice options.

CSS Crush @ Github

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Upcoming ad for Industries des Céréales No. 195

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9. December 2015

Sass Mixin obsession

Since completely moving to Sass, I am really obsessed to make my work easier :) There are many Mixins that really help to speedup development and remove some of the tedious tasks ;)

“Some things in CSS are a bit tedious to write, especially with CSS3 and the many vendor prefixes that exist. A mixin lets you make groups of CSS declarations that you want to reuse throughout your site. You can even pass in values to make your mixin more flexible. ” – Sass Basics

I will be showcasing some of the libs and resources here in the coming weeks. I only have one condition, Mixins should be simple dropin modules so that they can be used universally!

Here one Mixin, I love, that sets a REM font size with a Pixel fallback:

MIXIN

USAGE

OUTPUT

Enjoy coding…

 

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Here we go, WordPress 4.4 is available …

Changelog

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20. November 2015

My Javascript Stack

Some time ago I said: “My perfect framework, is a set of solid singular solutions that have proven themselves over the years. Working solo or together in harmony”.

Here is a list of some of my core components, that I use in combination or standalone.

CORE

LAYOUT

TEMPLATING

OBSERVABLES

ROUTER

STORAGE

DEPENDENCY MANAGER

  • RequireJS  – requirejs.org

    jQuery Tweak: If you have already loaded jQuery before RequireJS, you can not use define([“jquery”], …) in your module defines. Add this to your main RequireJS config before doing anything else …

    NOW you can live happily ever after :)

  • OR
  • Loadrunner – github.com/danwrong/loadrunner

This is basically the core stack that I use to build out ideas :) While Angular is always an option, the above satisfies most of all needs and is often far slimmer. The rest depends on how you organize your code yourself, but at least you are not forced into fixed structures ;)

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MVC offers architectural benefits over standard JavaScript.

The MVC pattern brings modularity to your applications and it enables:

  1. Reusable and extendable codebase.
  2. Separation of view from business logic.
  3. Simultaneous work on different components  ( UI layer and core logic).
  4. Maintenance becomes easier.

MVC is composed of three components:

MODEL

Model is where the application’s data objects are stored. The model doesn’t know anything about views and controllers. When a model changes, typically it will notify its observers that a change has occurred.

VIEW

View is what’s presented to the users and how users interact with the app. The view is made with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and often templates.

CONTROLLER

The controller is the decision maker and the glue between the model and view. The controller updates the view when the model changes. It also adds event listeners to the view and updates the model when the user manipulates the view.

 

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