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Design websites faster than ever using Sass! Integrate Sass into your project, create a reusable style guide, and use maps to drastically reduce duplication in your stylesheets. You’ll see how to code the right way in Sass with short, clear examples on two-page spreads that show the explanation on one side and code examples on the other. Now updated for Sass 3.4.

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This week, Pragmatic Guide to Sass 3: Tame the Modern Style Sheet is in print and starts shipping shortly. Order your copy directly from pragprog.com/book/pg_sass3 and help support the authors!

Also this week, the July issue of PragPub is out. Don't miss articles from Alistair Cockburn, Ron Jeffries, Michael Nygard and more luminaries! Now available from theprosegarden.com.

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Pragmatic Guide to Sass 3: Tame the Modern Style Sheet

Sass lets you write CSS faster and more easily by enabling you to use features that regular CSS doesn't have yet. Bring the power of Sass to your projects, whether you use Node.js, Ruby, or any other programming language. This updated Pragmatic Guide gives you brief, targeted hands-on examples in an easy-to-follow modular format.

Use variables to easily change color values, measurements, or fonts across a whole project. Pare down large style sheets into comprehensible code with maps and placeholder selectors. Organize your Sass with media queries to make maintainable, responsive designs. Create your own layout systems and build shared tooling across projects that make designs more consistent. Learn the differences between extends and mixins. Build data structures to make creating site-wide color schemes a breeze, and use placeholder selectors to keep style sheets cleaner. Pass content through mixins, prevent accidental deep nesting of selectors, and use cutting-edge modular add-ons in the new Sass ecosystem, such as Eyeglass, Susy, and Bourbon Neat.

This revised guide covers all the new features in Sass 3.4, including selector parsing and manipulation. Make full use of all Sass's features by updating to the most mature and powerful CSS toolchain out there.

Now in print and shipping from pragprog.com/book/pg_sass3.

July PragPub Magazine

This month, we’re celebrating seven years of PragPub with a big fat issue. In addition to regular columns by Johanna Rothman, Marcus Blankenship, and Antonio Cangiano, we’re serving up a double helping of eight (8!) feature articles, and we’ve invited some old friends to help us celebrate with articles that look back on where we came from and forward to where we might go...

Alistair Cockburn shares some thoughts on the Agile Manifesto and how it came about. Another Manifesto author, Ron Jeffries, reflects on the Extreme Programming philosophy. Allen Holub weighs in on #NoEstimates and Johanna Rothman gives some advice on dealing with estimates when no is not an answer.

Michael Nygard sorts the unicorns from the dinosaurs and concludes that the software of the future needs to be fleet of foot and highly disposable. Suppose software were trivial to create and only ever needed to be used once. Completely disposable. What would that mean to the way we write it? And what would it take to make that a reality?

And then there’s testing. Test-Driven Development has transformed how we (at least for some values of “we”) program. Three experts in testing and development weigh in on TDD this issue: Jonathan Rasmusson, Jeff Langr, and Venkat Subramaniam. They explore the testing pyramid, the virtues and benefits of TDD, and some of the barriers to implementing TDD.

Also, Natasha Murashev has been getting to know the Swift language and shares a practice she’s worked out for bending the language to her needs. It’s totally wrong, it’s not how you’re supposed to do it — but it works. Plus there’s Antonio with all the latest tech books and your editor with his review of the highlights of the past month in tech. And a puzzle. And a poem. Because it’s our anniversary!

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