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I’ve recently had a lot less (pun not intended) time to spend on .less, but I do keep track. Scott Hanselman mentioned the new ASP.NET site went live, and it looks good! What REALLY caught my eye is the section on open source projects it has, under the ‘community’ tab. It has a lot of nice, established projects mentioned, like Nhibernate, Subtext, Spark and a lot of others. What really amazed me is that .less is mentioned! If you scroll down to the Misc section, there it is! Seems like I really have to schedule my work better...
I just checked our analytics after I noticed a bit of retweeting going on after Jon Galloway picked up .Less. Can you spot at which points in our graph twitter was flooded with .Less tweets? I thought so ;-) I’d like to use this oppportunity to thank everyone for bringing us extra publicity! Thanks!
I had a short twitter conversation with Aaron Jensen on the decisions we made developing .Less. As I’ve blogged about before, for me personally it was more of a learning project than something with a set goal, at first. That aside, I had one thing in mind: being able to use less during development, without having to worry about it, add a handler and go! Less.Net, v0.1 My first solution was to simply install ruby and wrap the whole system call in a HttpHandler. Very clunky, but it worked! I blogged about this a while ago: Using LessCSS...
Lately I’ve run into several bugs which were caused by developers incorrectly assuming that the default locale settings were good enough for parsing a value. I’ll show you what I mean. Case 1 Consider the following snippet: .something {
width: 21.4em;
}
This is a simple CSS rule, making all elements with class ‘something’ have a width of 21.4em. In .Less, we parsed this without an explicit locale. The output would only show 21em, truncating the value from the implied decimal separator onwards. Once we set the locale to Invariant (who needs specific locales in CSS?),...
Between work, .Less and other things, I’ve been working a bit on a tool I would personally use. How many times did you just need a big set of test data for an application? How many times did you resort to simply dumping randomly generated data into your tables? Well, I’ve did that a few times, and one of the biggest annoyances is that the generated data is usually not really ‘real’, if you know what I mean. Say I have an application which has keeps customer records. I’d have a name, address, maybe some dates, something numeric and...
Okay, I’ve moved to my own host, using subtext as the blog engine. I’ve also renamed my blog to SmoothFriction.nl, to match the URL I am using right now. Thinking hard to come up with a good subtitle now, but the URL is here to stay.
I’m also in the process of fixing the old posts which got a bit scrambled when moving here, as well as adding the SyntaxHighlighter javascript to get those really cool code blocks. Stay tuned!
Note: If you're using feedburner on my blog, the url won't change. So you should still get the updates.