Karthi karthilxg

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

Mac web developer apps

This gist's comment stream is a collection of webdev apps for OS X. Feel free to add links to apps you like, just make sure you add some context to what it does — either from the creator's website or your own thoughts.

— Erik

	// Documented by Stoyan Stefanov: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151176218703920
	(function() {
	var url = 'http://example.org/js.js';
	var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
	(iframe.frameElement \|\| iframe).style.cssText =
	"width: 0; height: 0; border: 0";
	iframe.src = "javascript:false";
	var where = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
	where.parentNode.insertBefore(iframe, where);
	var doc = iframe.contentWindow.document;

	pre {outline: 1px solid #ccc; padding: 5px; margin: 5px; }
	.string { color: green; }
	.number { color: darkorange; }
	.boolean { color: blue; }
	.null { color: magenta; }
	.key { color: red; }

	curl \
	--verbose \
	--request OPTIONS \
	http://localhost:3001/api/configuration/visitor \
	--header 'Origin: http://localhost:9292' \
	--header 'Access-Control-Request-Headers: Origin, Accept, Content-Type' \
	--header 'Access-Control-Request-Method: GET'


	# http://nils-blum-oeste.net/cors-api-with-oauth2-authentication-using-rails-and-angularjs/#.UQJeLkp4ZyE

	// Long Polling (Recommened Technique - Creates An Open Connection To Server ∴ Fast)
	(function poll(){
	$.ajax({ url: "server", success: function(data){
	//Update your dashboard gauge
	salesGauge.setValue(data.value);
	}, dataType: "json", complete: poll, timeout: 30000 });
	})();

	/**
	* @license MIT, GPL, do whatever you want
	* @requires polyfill: Array.prototype.slice fix {@link https://gist.github.com/brettz9/6093105}
	*/
	if (!Array.from) {
	Array.from = function (object) {
	'use strict';
	return [].slice.call(object);
	};
	}

	alias ng="npm list -g --depth=0 2>/dev/null"
	alias nl="npm list --depth=0 2>/dev/null"

	license: gpl-3.0
	redirect: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/map-coloring

	// http://jsfiddle.net/suBPQ/

	$.ajax({
	url: "http://api_test_server.proudlygeek.c9.io/",
	success: function(data) {
	console.log(data);
	}
	});