Formalize and News Roundup "Design Edition" (Interview)
Mar 22, 2011•50 min
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Episode description
Adam and Wynn were joined by Nathan Smith, creator of 960.gs to talk about his new project Formalize and the latest news on The Changelog.
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Show Notes:
- Nathan Smith, front end dev, speaker, and author
- 960 Grid System is a versatile CSS grid framework
- Formalize teaches your forms some manners
- An exhaustive list of HTML5 cross-browser polyfills
- Formalize even comes with Sass support out of the box
- Compass’s CSS3 module is powerful
- Wynn <3 Mustache
- Adam writes Sass but converts his stylesheets to SCSS for those who prefer it
- Haml means never looking for a missing </div> ever again
- The Changelog on Convore
- HSLPicker - Most excellent color picker for your enjoyment
- Fancy buttons makes your buttons fancy with CSS
- Octopress is a blogging framework for hackers
- Brandon was on Episode 0.1.7 on open source publishing
- Nesta CMS is our favorite Ruby CMS
- reveal: jQuery modal for HTML5 and data attributes
- Zurb’s CSS playground is awesome
- rawler: Crawl your website and find broken links with Ruby
- Inception explained in C code
- JavaScript version of the Inception code, demonstrating console.group
- BeerCamp 2011 site design is fun (scroll all the way down)
- compass-magick: Extend Sass with power of ImageMagick
- jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 released
- Nathan recently spoke at DrupalCon in Chicago on his jQuery desktop project
- Adam is tickled SourceForge runs Grid Coordinates
- The Open Government project demonstrates how the space is growing
- Stylus from LearnBoost brings Node.js-flavored CSS preprocessing
- Zeldman on designers who can’t code
- Adam loves the work of Mike Kus
- Wynn’s rant should be read as ten things you can do to spread the word about your open source project
- Wynn’s post actually spurred Nathan to create a homepage at Formalize.me
- Ryan Bates’ Railscasts are awesome
- Jenkins née Hudson almost became Alfred
- Nathan loves Alfred app
- Adam and Wynn are on Team Launchbar
- Nathan stumbled across a really neat way to target Firefox in CSS
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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