Automate your CSS Workflow!

5 June 2013, 9:00 - 12:00

This schedule is subject to change, based on attendees' experience, pre-workshop surveys, operating systems, current processes and interests.

9:00 - Introductions

• attendee introductions
• confirm pre-workshop questionaires
• handouts / slides
• schedule adjustments

9:10 - The Basics

• application launchers
• command line basics
• aliases, functions
• scripts
• automator / applescript, if applicable to all attendees
• cron / at
• source / revision control systems, hooks

10:00 - Best Practices

• organizing CSS files
• preprocessors
• linting
• sprite generation

10:30 - Break

10:40 - Workflow Enhancements

• live-reloads
• packaging
• aggregating
• compression

11:15 - Testing

• tools
• handling different browsers

11:30 - Attendee Workflows

• review attendees' workflows
• determine most common issues among attendees
• discuss improvements to each
• implement workflow enhancements

12:00 - Wrap-up

• additional resources
• workshop surveys, feedback