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July 12, 2011

Stamp

by Jeremy Weiskotten

Format dates and times based on human-friendly examples, not arcane strftime directives! Jeremy demonstrates stamp, a new gem he wrote to remove the pain of date and time formatting.

Travis-CI

by Jeremy Weiskotten

Jeremy demonstrates how to easily set up continuous integration for your open source projects using Travis CI

September 14, 2010

Haml, Sass, and Compass for Sane Web Development

by Jeremy Weiskotten

HTML and CSS are ubiquitous on the web, but they were mostly created in a vacuum. Haml, Sass, and Compass provide helpful abstractions and utilities to remove some of the repetition and noise in your code for rapid development and easier maintenance. We'll discuss the basics and general syntax, then dive into some code to see how it really works.