When most people think web pages they think “on screen.” I’ll admit, I’m the exact same way. I rarely think of taking a web page off screen and onto paper. On a recent project 26AM completed for a California State Government agency, we learned that portability not only to mobile devices but to paper is an important criteria. (more…)
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010haml: a better way to look at rails and css
Monday, February 16th, 2009We’re always looking for ways to produce cleaner, smaller and faster code. Haml is a rails plugin that brings a couple of things with it. The first being HAML and the second, SASS. Both are ways of condensing and streamlining coding for Ruby on Rails and CSS. You’ll find plenty of people who don’t like HAML.
Being a development/design shop, quality control is very important to us. Anything that cuts down the amount of typing and syntaxing is going to benefit our clients and us. The less typing we (26AM, twentysixam) has to do, the less room for error. This also means faster troubleshooting and updates for our clients. SASS creates the possibility for variables within CSS. Why update a color attribution in 10 places when you could update it in one. Why type a definition 4 times when you could do it once?
The beauty behind HAML is that it is an indent based coding style. An indent means a new definition. It’s that simple. It’s been a couple weeks and we’re fans. Some people may think we’re lazy, on the contrary, we’re fast. We want to put out projects faster and more accurately. Because of this fact, we’ve started using HAML.