I'll be speaking at this month's polyglot programmers meeting in Wheaton.

I'll be giving a 60-120 minute talk on HAML, SASS and tenplate. details below...

Haml/Sass/Tenplate
Take your RAILS app to the next level by cleaning up your views with HAML, simplifying your CSS with SASS, and enforcing good POSH/Design habits with tenplate.

Elevate your markup with HAML.
Take a look at this clean, refreshing alternative to ERB's.

Simplify your markup - no more pesky closing tags or poorly nested HTML. Make using "end" a vague memory. And gaze in wonder as you view the perfect
whitespace and indentation in your apps source.

Boost your presentation with SASS.
Like CSS on steroids SASS provides you with CSS variables, math and "mixins" allowing you to create shortcuts for commonly used rules.

Write easy to read SASS on the server side yet render compressed, optimized CSS to the client!

Bring it all together with tenplate
Add a baseline typographical grid to your site.

Create a EM based layout with a dynamic grid system.

Add custom form helpers and basic site variables.

So i made a few updates to tenplate.

I fixed a few bugs that where throwing errors, and due to popular demand started a little how-to in the README.

Keep in mind this is still pre-alpha software, but check it out. I'll think you'll like the improvements.

Thanks for the brave few who checked me out at code camp. As promised here's a link to grab tenplate.

I also try and alert you to any upcoming bar camp.

Thanks again.

I'll be chatting with the sharp folks over at thirsty developer about nhaml/haml/sass this afternoon, look for the podcast to air in the very near future.

Just wanted to throw a few links up for the thirsty developer listeners visiting this site.

• official haml site
• haml on github
• tenplate on github
• nhaml

I also just noticed that trunk nhaml allows you to choose between spaces/tabs and allows you to set tab width. So no more excuses, download and get coding!

My interview with the thirsty developer guys went live last night, I just finished listening and man those guys run a great show.

We actually get kicked out of the restaurant halfway through and manage to keep it rolling.

Updating installed gems
Updating haml
Successfully installed haml-2.2.1

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