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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Consolas, monospace; "><div>Dear all, </div><div><br></div><div>Here are the slides from last night's Sass talk: http://www.slideshare.net/adarowski/sassive-aggressive-level-up-your-css-with-sass</div><div><div><br></div><div>It links off to the code samples on GitHub, the direct link to the project is: https://github.com/jayroh/sass-harvard</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Donna</div></div></span></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Donna Tremonte <<a href="mailto:dtremont@oeb.harvard.edu">dtremont@oeb.harvard.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:08:20 -0500<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> web-pub <<a href="mailto:web-pub@mit.edu">web-pub@mit.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [WebPub] [abcd-www] Mar. 14 - Sassive Aggressive: Level Up Your CSS with Sass<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><div><div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Hello </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">MIT WebPub,</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Andrew, Jason and I would like to announce the presenter & topic for next month's WWW meeting!<br>We have the privilege of hearing f</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">rom local developers Adam Darowski and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Joel Oliviera.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; ">The talk is on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri; ">"Sassive Aggressive: Level Up Your CSS with Sass"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> and here are the details:</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Adam Darowski and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Joel Oliviera</span><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Lamont Library, Forum Room</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">March 14th, 2012 @ 3:30 – 5:00</font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000ff" face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; "><i><u><br></u></i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b style="font-size: 16px; "><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">NOTE:</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Attendees without a Harvard ID card need to RSVP </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">(reply to </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i><a href="mailto:andrew.t.hubble@gmail.com">andrew.t.hubble@gmail.com</a></i></span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: black; ">) as soon a possible for entry to the library.</span></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">=========================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; "></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; ">Sassive Aggressive: Level Up Your CSS with Sass</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.10231863814415898" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">As the line between designer and developer continues to blur, we need more from CSS than it can offer. Sass is an extension of CSS that adds basic features CSS is sorely missing (like variables and nesting). But Sass kicks things to a new level with mixins (flexible, re-usable blocks of CSS) and advanced selector inheritance. Simply put, Sass makes CSS authoring fun again.</span></span></font></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Bios:</span></b></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://joeloliveira.com" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">Joel Oliveira</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> works as the lead developer and technologist for the lean and nimble Charlestown-based agency called </span><a href="http://the47th.com" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">The 47th</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">. Besides the Internet, technology and evangelizing the powers of Sass, what wakes him up in the morning ready to conquer the day are his two English bulldogs and his wife Sara — both literally and figuratively. When he’s not working or tinkering on his own open source code Joel enjoys film, strong Belgian beer, going to the gym and science fiction novels. On the web, you can find Joel on both </span><a href="http://twitter.com/jayroh" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> and </span><a href="https://github.com/jayroh" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">GitHub</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> as </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">jayroh</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; "><a href="http://darowski.com/" id="internal-source-marker_0.10231863814415898">Adam Darowski</a></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> is a husband, daddy of three young children, and a web developer for Cambridge-based</span><a href="http://patientslikeme.com/"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">PatientsLikeMe</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">. When not juggling children or pumping his fist after writing a new Sass mixin at the day job, he creates</span><a href="http://darowski.com/hall-of-wwar"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">sabermetric-inspired baseball visualizations</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> with Sass. Adam goes by </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">adarowski</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> on</span><a href="http://twitter.com/adarowski"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> and</span><a href="https://github.com/adarowski"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">GitHub</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; ">.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; "></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium; "><br></span></div></div></div></span></body></html>