Refresh Pittsburgh May 2012 Meetup! schedule

Tuesday 15th May 2012

• An Overview of Compass

  by patrickfulton

  This presentation is an overview of Compass, which is a CSS authoring framework that tackles common stylesheet problems such as grid layouts, handling CSS3 vendor differences, and stylesheet optimization. It does for CSS what jQuery has done for JavaScript: solve real world problems, letting designers and developers create stylesheets more efficiently.

  At 6:30pm to 6:30pm, Tuesday 15th May

• RESS: The Evolution of Responsive Web Design

  by Dave Olsen

  Responsive web design has become an important tool for front-end developers as they develop mobile-optimized solutions for clients. Browser-detection has been an important tool for server-side developers for the same task for much longer. Unfortunately, both techniques have certain limitations. I?ll show how both front-end and server-side developers can take advantage of the new technique called RESS (Responsive Web Design with Server Side Components) that aims to be combine the best of both worlds for delivering mobile-optimized content.

  At 6:30pm to 6:30pm, Tuesday 15th May