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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...