Over the past couple of months, my interests have peaked in the land Ruby on Rails in particular SASS (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) which is apart of the RubyGem plugin, HAML. This was initially introduced to me while working on a project for Raincity Studios and the brilliant developers at OpenBand Labs by lead designer and front-end developer, Alex Bendiken.

SASS (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are useful for creating manageable stylesheets.

I've been quite interested in working with geo-spacial data and information lately and was grateful to have had this link shared with me from Francis, a coleage of mine. Here's a great overview of the future of geo-spacial data storage and the visualization of it. It's great to see a large and exponential growth of interest in this field as a number of smaller organization stem up to fund the progression of these advancing technologies.

Andrew Turner: Beyond Google Maps

• http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/videos/andrew-turner

Thanks to all that attended my session for Drupalcamp Vancouver. We had a much bigger turn out that expected and ended up having to move into the big room. I've attached the slides here as well as the link to both tutorials. Both JS files are linked in the tutorials at the footer.

Accordion Tutorial:

http://www.stevekrueger.com/jquery-accordion-tutorial

"Coda" tutorial:

http://www.stevekrueger.com/jquery-accordion-tutorial/index2.html

And here are the slides: