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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

Vestride

/**
 * Photoshop layer comp cleanup script
 *
 * This script will run through all the layer comps, find layers that are hidden in every comp
 * as well as any groups that are empty and delete them. Save before doing this just in case ;)
 *
 * @author Glen Cheney (http://glencheney)
 * @version 1.1
 * @date 7.10.12
 */