Omar-Gonzalez

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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

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vs Questions

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1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/804115 (rebase vs merge).
2. https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing (rebase vs merge)
3. https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/undoing-changes/ (reset vs checkout vs revert)
4. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2221658 (HEAD^ vs HEAD~) (See git rev-parse)
5. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/292357 (pull vs fetch)
6. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39651 (stash vs branch)
7. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8358035 (reset vs checkout vs revert)
8. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5798930 (git reset vs git rm --cached)