George Spake

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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Compass Sticky Footer Mixin

When you’re dealing with browsers and markup, content tends to float to the top of the window by default. In most cases there is enough content on the page to keep the footer at the bottom of the window but, if a page doesn’t occupy the full height of the window, the footer is going to float right up to the bottom of the content creating an unattractive empty space below.
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Talk: Open Source Software Development in Higher Education

Talk: I’ll be giving a talk about the role of open source development in higher ed institutions at the upcoming Tennessee Higher Education Information Technology Symposium in Chattanooga Tennessee. The talk will focus on the experience I had with the UTHSC-WPCAS plugin developed for UTHSC and encourage Higher-Ed tech professionals to consider open sourcing their work and to consider open source options when making IT decisions.
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