Archives for August, 2009.

Complex Lists

I recently had to take a pretty complex nested list and style it in a way that easy to understand with semantic markup. Note:In this post I will only be showing the styling and markup, not the implementation of showing/hiding the branches. The structure of the list sounds fairy simple, a list who’s children can [...]

Full time Ruby on Rails developer required (London) £32,000 – £35,000

Our client is looking for a motivated Ruby on Rails developer who has at least 2 years commercial experience. The right candidate will be a skilled coder who has a good eye for design and is able to see things through the eyes of a potential user. Based in London, the client operates in the [...]

Rounded Corners

Ugh. If there is one task that will kill my motivation for the day, it’s rounding boxes with CSS. Yes, in the right context they do give a design an edge, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t a real pain to do! The subject has really been done to death by now- there are [...]

Cooking With Sass

Hello again. This week I’ve been getting to grips with Sass and seeing what I could do with it. Sass (a rather charming acronym of Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) is a component of the Haml plugin for Ruby. Where Haml deals with the markup of HTML, Sass deals with the markup of CSS. It describes itself [...]