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This is part of a series of examples that describe the basic operation of the D3.js force layout. Eventually they may end up in a blog post that wraps everything together. If you missed the beginning of the series, here's a link to first example.

Earlier examples looked at the operation of force layout from a (very) high level. This example begins examining the important properties of the force layout in more detail.

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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

jQuery Validate Hooks

If you're using [ASP.NET MVC3][], it uses [jQuery Validate][] to do client-side validations. Instead of using [jQuery Validate][] directly, however, it wraps it with its own jQuery plugin called [jQuery.Validate.Unobtrusive][]. [jQuery.Validate.Unobtrusive][] sets up [jQuery Validate][] for you, behind the scenes, so you don't have an opportunity to customize your [jQuery Validate][] settings at all!

We've been running into trouble with this when we've been doing our own custom client-side validations. We need a way to integrate with the build-in [ASP.NET MVC3][] validation so we can:

	var db = mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost:27017/DB');

	// In middleware
	app.use(function (req, res, next) {

	// action after response
	var afterResponse = function() {
	logger.info({req: req}, "End request");

	// any other clean ups

	var gulp = require('gulp');

	var clean = require('gulp-clean');
	var jshint = require('gulp-jshint');
	var concat = require('gulp-concat');
	var uglify = require('gulp-uglify');
	var imagemin = require('gulp-imagemin');

	var bases = {
	app: 'app/',

	#!/bin/bash
	# Dashing service
	# Add this file to /etc/init.d/
	# $ sudo cp dashboard /etc/init.d/
	# Update variables DASHING_DIR, GEM_HOME, & PATH to suit your installation
	# $ sudo nano /etc/init.d/dashboard
	# Make executable
	# $ sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/dashboard
	# Update rc.d
	# $ sudo update-rc.d dashboard defaults