Thursday, April 2, 2015

Useful Compass Features for Web Development

When the discussion comes to Compass, people have different opinions. Some of them highlight the reasons for excluding Compass from their workflow (e.g. Hugo), while others emphasize the benefits of using its features.


In this article, I'll cover eight Compass features you can use to build robust stylesheets. To better explain them, I created a Compass project. The assets of it can be found in this github repository.


It's time now to start!


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A common web design issue I come across can be shown below:


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Ruby on Medicine: Hunting For The Gene Sequence

Previous articles in this series focused on handling very large text files. At some point, you may be interested in searching for a specific pattern in those large files. Manually searching through a large text file is a non-starter, so leveraging the incredible tools of the developer's trade is where we turn for help in today's article.


Regular expressions


Regular expressions (Regex) are built for this task. They are encoded text strings focused on matching and manipulating patterns in the text. They were born into our world in the 1970s. They are extremely useful and considered the key to powerful text processing.


To be more precise, a regular expression is a string that contains a combination of normal characters and special metacharacters. The normal characters are present to match themselves. On the other hand, the metacharacters represent ideas such as quantity and location of characters.


Regex is a language in and of itself, with special syntax and instructions to implement. It can be used with programming languages, like Ruby, to accomplish different tasks, such as:



  • Finding text that matches the pattern within a larger text (i.e. our very large text file)

  • Replacing the text matching the pattern with other text

  • Searching for a file containing the text ant for example, but not if that text is at the end of the word (i.e. want)


These are just a few of the example tasks that are possible. Such tasks can range in complexity from a simple text editor's search command to a powerful text processing language.


The bottom line is that you, as a Ruby programmer, will be armed with a very versatile tool that can be used to perform all sorts of text processing tasks.


The example today will focus on the main types of tasks regex performs: Search (locate text) and Replace (edit located text).


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by A. Hasan via SitePoint

Codeship: Continuous Integration and Delivery Made Simple

Windows Phone 8 Succinctly: Integrating With the Operating System

How to Optimize Social Media Images

Do you create your own images for social media? Are you happy with their performance? With a few simple tweaks, you can optimize images for greater visibility on social media and in search engine results. In this article you’ll find three tips to optimize your social media images for better online performance. #1: Optimize Images […]


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Responsive Facebook Style Timeline Design With Bootstrap

In this tutorial we are going to implement this Responsive Facebook style timeline design with Twitter Bootstrap. I am going to explain step by step implementation of this Responsive Timeline Design, so just follow the each steps carefully.


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jQuery Animated Dropdown Mega Menu Plugin

An Animated Dropdown Mega Menu a jquery plugin that uses Animate CSS/HoverIntent with CSS only fallback.



  • Javascript Based menu with CSS only fallback

  • Uses CSS3 animation when available (fallback to js)

  • Works in IE7+


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