John Hartley johnbhartley

Build Responsively - July 9-10, 2012

Responsive Design 101

Semantic grid system: http://semantic.gs/

They'd love to see an analytics script to track how often people are resizing the browser

add resize listener to the window, send GA event
git://gist.github.com/3076998.git

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

CSS Layout Debugger

A tweet-sized debugger for visualizing your CSS layouts. Outlines every DOM element on your page a random (valid) CSS hex color.

One-line version to paste in your DevTools

Use $$ if your browser aliases it:

~ 108 byte version

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <body class="ie6"> <![endif]-->
	<!--[if IE 7 ]> <body class="ie7"> <![endif]-->
	<!--[if IE 8 ]> <body class="ie8"> <![endif]-->
	<!--[if IE 9 ]> <body class="ie9"> <![endif]-->
	<!--[if (gt IE 9)\|!(IE)]><!--> <html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="no-js"> <!--<![endif]-->
	<head>

	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>

	describe('Test example.com', function(){
	before(function(done) {
	client.init().url('http://example.com', done);
	});

	describe('Check homepage', function(){
	it('should see the correct title', function(done) {
	client.getTitle(function(err, title){
	expect(title).to.have.string('Example Domain');
	done();

	// Retrieve Customer by Email (or other method)
	$customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer')
	->setWebsiteId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getWebsiteId())
	->loadByEmail($email);

	// Set as Logged In and Clear Session
	Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->setCustomerAsLoggedIn($customer)
	->renewSession();

	// Redirect or do something here :)

	/**
	* navigation.js
	*
	* Handles toggling the navigation menu for small screens and enabling tab support for dropdown menus.
	*/
	( function() {
	var container, button, menu, links;

	container = document.getElementById( 'site-navigation' );
	if ( ! container )

	<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript

	// Restify Server CheatSheet.
	// More about the API: http://mcavage.me/node-restify/#server-api
	// Install restify with npm install restify


	// 1.1. Creating a Server.
	// http://mcavage.me/node-restify/#Creating-a-Server


	var restify = require('restify');

	<form id="contact-form" action="//formspree.io/[email protected]" method="post">
	<input type="text" name="Name" placeholder="Name" required>
	<input type="email" name="Email" placeholder="Email" required>
	<textarea name="Message" cols="30" rows="6" placeholder="Message" required></textarea>
	<!-- CONFIG -->
	<input class="is-hidden" type="text" name="_gotcha">
	<input type="hidden" name="_subject" value="Subject">
	<input type="hidden" name="_cc" value="[email protected]">
	<!-- /CONFIG -->
	<input class="submit" type="submit" value="Send">