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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

mekya

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.DatagramPacket;
import java.net.DatagramSocket;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.SocketException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Locale;

Vestride

Encoding Video

Installing

Install FFmpeg with homebrew. You'll need to install it with a couple flags for webm and the AAC audio codec.

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-opus

ftvs

package com.gabesechan.android.reusable.receivers;

import java.util.Date;

import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.telephony.TelephonyManager;

public abstract class PhonecallReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

calebporzio

<snippet>
    <content><![CDATA[
<i class="fa fa-fw fa-${1}"></i>&nbsp; 
]]></content>
    <tabTrigger>fa</tabTrigger>
    <description>Font Awesome Icon</description>
    <scope>text.blade, text.html.blade, text.html</scope>
</snippet>

gaearon

const express = require('express');
const app = express();

// Application
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
  if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
    for (var key in require.cache) {
      delete require.cache[key];
    }      
  }

tonysm

<?php

// 1. Register the routes
Route::get('test/{lorem}', function ($lorem) {
    sleep(3);

    return response()->json([
        'message' => $lorem,
        'token' => Str::random(),
    ]);

ninthspace

<?php

// update Controller.php as follows

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Services\TimeTravel;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\Access\AuthorizesRequests;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\DispatchesJobs;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests;