This week we were joined by Nicolas Gallagher, CSS expert. We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

• 8:29 EFF gets involved in DRM

Q & A:

• 13:40I want an automated way to produce styles guides. How do you produce guides for your clients? Have you been able to automate the process?
• 18:23 Any insight into IE downloading inapplicable stylesheets?
• 35:23 I’m a huge fan of inline blocks. Is there any other reason why the whole world is using floats?
• 41:10 I want to create a blog for myself, to document and share what I learn. Is it crazy NOT to use a CMS?
• 49:23 I’m applying for a dev job with a company and they use LESS. What are the key things I need to bare in mind when changing from Sass to LESS?

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  • 47:24 Enviornments for Humans – Artifact Conf November 4–6 in Providence, RI. A fantastic 2 day, single track conference about front end. The theme is “Multi-Device World”. Some great workshops:

  • Build Responsively by Ben Callahan

  • Sass for Beginners by Matt Griffen
  • CSS Animation by Val Head
  • Responsive Designer Patterns by Brad Frost
  • Use the discount code “SHOPTALK” for $100 off your ticket.

More Links:

• Nicolas’ Website
• Nicolas on Twitter
• KSS Ruby Gem
• Brad Frost’s Pattern Lab
• “Mobile first” CSS and getting Sass to help with legacy IE
• Testing for Asynchronous Load of Inapplicable CSS StyleSheets (github)
• Centering in the Unknown – CSS Tricks Article
• Dave Rupert – “A Brander Newer Blog”
• Jekyll – A Static Site Generator