Pascal Achard botmaster

To make sure your lay-outs look pretty much the same on all devices, including the thousands of different Android resolutions and densities, it's always best to use the 'dp' unit. However, typing '10dp' instead of 10 is quite a pain. A pain you can easily take away by changing the default unit in your tiapp.xml.

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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

	{
	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
	// JSHint Configuration, Strict Edition
	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
	//
	// This is a options template for [JSHint][1], using [JSHint example][2]
	// and [Ory Band's example][3] as basis and setting config values to
	// be most strict:
	//
	// * set all enforcing options to true

	/* /Resources/app.js - Generated by Alloy, here to understand the flow */

	var Alloy = require("alloy"), _ = Alloy._, Backbone = Alloy.Backbone;

	Alloy.createController("index");