April 2011
4 posts
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Stylus vs SASS vs LESS error reporting
I was curious what SASS did as far as error reporting goes, so I tried the following snippet with SASS, LESS as well as Stylus.
body {
form input {
background: foo[fail];
}
}
LESS
The output from LESS was terrible:
Syntax Error on line 4
note: that for LESS I had to tweak the input to “foo[fail’]’;” since it simply consumes the input above
SASS
The...
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Cluster Live 0.0.1
cluster-live is a plugin for the Cluster server manager written for node. Cluster is similar to Ruby’s “Unicorn”, however is extremely extensible via a simple plugin system.
Cluster is built with the Express web framework, Jade for templates, Stylus for CSS, and Socket.IO for communication.
Below is a screenshot of cluster-live in action. Each worker process is represented by...
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Extend Sylus with a Nib
Today I am releasing Nib, an extensions library for Stylus, inspired by the SASS compass library. Nib is a very new library with a minimal feature set at the moment, however I need to get some of my semi-finished projects open-sourced to make way for bigger badder things, and I’m already finding this project quite useful so feedback and contributions are always welcome.
If you dont like to...
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Redis Implemented With Node
Nedis is a (partial) redis implementation written with node. Primarily for fun, however as our team grows larger, and as we add more non-technical team members over at LearnBoost I figured it would be nice help prevent the need for compiling development dependencies.
Nedis is an old side project I had going, and is no where near complete, but it does work, so I figured I would open-source it....