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Smarter Theming with SASS (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) on Drupal

Mar 12/2009 Tags

SASS HAML

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.

Drupalcamp Vancouver: jQuery for Designers and Drupal Theming

May 06/2008 Tags

So Drupalcamp Vancouver is right around the corner and I'm sitting here preparing for 2 of my sessions: Designers Guide to jQuery and Drupal Theming. Both sessions are focused towards beginners as well as designers, but as always, all are welcome to attend and participate in discussion.

The jQuery session will be back-to-back with the Developers Guide to jQuery lead by a collegue of mine, Katherine Bailey. I will be covering the very basics of jQuery for web designers who are interested in utilizing the potential of jQuery but are over-come by the learning curve of having to learn a programming language. Believe me, it's easy! I'll also be doing a live tutorial as well as some simple implementations of jQuery animations within Drupal.

Our Drupal Theming session, lead by Mark Yuasa and myself (and maybe Hubert), will be an overview of taking a design to a functioning drupal theme. If you happened to miss our theming session in January and wanted to attend, this will be the one to be at.

Hope to see some new faces and meet new people! See you then.

Update:

Here's my post on the slides from this presentation. Please leave comments and questions in that post and not this one.
http://stevekrueger.com/braingarden/2008/05/10/designers-guide-jquery-drupalcamp-vancouver-presentation

Vancouver League of Drupalers: Making Diamond Sparkle - Forums & The Business Objects Community Site

Mar 28/2008 Tags

Tonight's the Vancouver League of Drupalers monthly meetup. If you haven't already heard, drop by the office at Raincity Studios for some free Drupal lovin'.
 
Start: 2008-03-27 18:30 Canada/Pacific
 
Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday March 27, 2008 at Raincity Studios for the Vancouver League of Drupalers March meeting. This month's feature presentation: Making Diamond Sparkle - Forums & The Business Objects Community Site with Tony Chang from Business Objects and Angus Pratt from Pratt Web Services.

Vancouver Drupal Camp - May 9-10, 2008

Mar 28/2008 Tags

So heads up for all that are interested in attending Drupalcamp in Vancouver. The details bellow:

Date: May 9-10, 2008
Where: Friday sessions at SFU Wosk Centre for Dialouge (Hasting and Seymour), Saturday sessions at Workspace (21 Water St., Gastown)
Who:You and about 80 other people (first come, first served - stay tuned for registration mid-April)
How Much: About $20 probably* - that'll get you 2 lunches and an eco-friendly t-shirt (*subject to change)

Hope to meet and see some of you awesome Vancouver Drupalists!

Full Post @ Drupal.org 

Drupalcon 2008: Boston!

Feb 06/2008 Tags

Boston Drupalcon 2008So I'm heading off to Boston for my first Drupalcon and large international conference, Drupalcon 2008. I'm pretty excited and nervous, minus the fact that I haven't flown on a plane since i was 2! I'll be traveling with some of my fellow peers at Raincity Studios. Other than the copious amounts of t-shirt and swag that will be thrown around at the conference (woot! won't have to go shopping for a while!), I'm quite thrilled to be able to participate and hopefully converse with some of the leading contributors from the Drupal project.