Yet Another AWESOME Web Tool: Less CSS

When writing CSS for large sites and/or redesigns, does it ever feel like your duplicating style after style? The one thing about CSS that really gets me down sometimes, is the duplication of effort.

For instance, you set a color in your stylesheet via a hexidecimal value and after about 20 minutes you realize you need to reuse that color for another id/class. Since you are using several hex values, its hard to remember which is which so now you have to go back and dig through the stylesheet to find the one you want.

Enter LESS, a leaner CSS. Taken directly from their site "Less extends css by adding: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules." Now you're probably thinking, "Huh? CSS doesn't have variables...does it?". Well, no it doesn't, but LESS does.

New Year's Resolution in February

This post was supposed to happen sometime ago, but after having it all typed up and going to submit it, my DB server decided to crash at the exact moment and the post was forever lost.

So with the New Year comes change. No, not the type of change we heard about in the presidential elections, I'm talking about personal change...more specifically, change for me.

Learning Ruby and eventually Rails

It has finally begun. I am finally diving deeper into my greatest passion. Web Development. Sure I've done some web work that people would likely consider development but not the extent that I've wanted. This time, I've actually decided on the language and platform to develop with. Ruby on Rails.