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Talk: Frontend asset management in Laravel

[Memphis PHP - Wednesday May 17, 2016](http://www.meetup.com/memphis-

technology-user-groups/events/229283992/)
Vaco Midsouth

Summary:
Laravel ships with elixir, a gulp plugin with a clean syntax for building out your frontend assets. While elixir is great in a lot of cases, it comes with some limitations on projects with more complex frontend build requirements. I ’ll talk about why elixir is great, why it didn’t work for us, and how we integrated our frontend framework in Laravel with some gulp magic.

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Use SASS Mixins to Generate Class Names

If you need to generate a bunch of rules for n number of numbered classes, you can do it dynamically by using mixin arguments to generate class names

Here’s a neat little trick I used recently. I was working with a simple single page form and each page of the form was hidden; I wanted to be able to un-hide the form pages based on a parent class that included the page number.

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GiveCamp Memphis Demonstrates How Vibrant Memphis’ Tech Community Is

![Volunteers develop software for non-profits at Give Camp Memphis 2016 - Photo by Brad Montgomery](https://georgespake.com/wp-

content/uploads/2016/02/give-camp-developers-300x186.jpg)Volunteers develop software for non-profits at Give Camp Memphis 2016 - Photo by Brad Montgomery

This weekend, GiveCamp Memphis —a weekend- long event where local developers and designers get together to build software for non-profit organizations—was held at CoWork Memphis in Cooper Young. This marks the event’s sixth year and the second year I’ve had the honor of participating as a volunteer.

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Plotting Data with R and rCharts

This semester, I’m taking a course that encourages using R for statistical analysis. I decided to see what I could do with it.

To get started, I installed R using homebrew started looking in to what sort of packages I could find and stumbled across rCharts .

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