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Episode Synopsis
This week we were joined by Mina Markham, a Sass-lovin’ designer and developer from Dallas, Texas. She’s a Syracuse University alum, part-time freelancer, full-time Parago employee, and soon-to-be Girl Develop It teacher.
We talked about (roughly in order):
News’n’Links’n’Drama
Myth.io: “CSS Level 4 kind of stuff”
Q & A
17:01 I’ve just started using Compass mixins and helpers, but I’ve found that it doesn’t directly solve all of the prefix problems. Should I write my own mixins, or should I try to choose from one of the gazillion or so community mixins available?
22:53 Do you feel any isolation in being a black woman in the dev and coding community?
29:10 I’m primarily a front-end coder. I’d like to do more design work for my company. How do I convince them to take a chance on me?
35:23 With today’s advancements in HTML and CSS, how much of a site is image based? What parts should be displayed with images and what should be CSS3 coding?
41:27 I’m a front end developer that works with a team of talented back end devs. How would you hand off CSS that has been compiled by a preprocessor to a back end developer?
48:00 How do I trademark my personal brand?
54:41 I have fallen in love in how easy CodeKit makes developing websites. But when I work with other people, often in Rails, they just use the terminal to compile the Sass. But I really miss the compiling + minifying of JavaScript. Is there a way to do this without CodeKit?
Sponsors
21:15 Discover Meteor The best way to learn how to build real-time Javascript web apps. Get 20% off the awesome book now!
39:49 InCTRL Conf 2 Day conference in Orlando, FL. Fantastic speaker line up. Use code “SHOPTALK” for $100 off!
Show Links
Mina’s Website
Mina on Twitter
Parago
Pink Pixels Creative
Ladies in Tech Podcast
AutoPrefixer
Meteor.js
Sidebar.io
Black Girls Code
Chris’s 24 Ways Article: Grunt
AIGA
Girl Develop It
We talked about (roughly in order):
News’n’Links’n’Drama
Myth.io: “CSS Level 4 kind of stuff”
Q & A
17:01 I’ve just started using Compass mixins and helpers, but I’ve found that it doesn’t directly solve all of the prefix problems. Should I write my own mixins, or should I try to choose from one of the gazillion or so community mixins available?
22:53 Do you feel any isolation in being a black woman in the dev and coding community?
29:10 I’m primarily a front-end coder. I’d like to do more design work for my company. How do I convince them to take a chance on me?
35:23 With today’s advancements in HTML and CSS, how much of a site is image based? What parts should be displayed with images and what should be CSS3 coding?
41:27 I’m a front end developer that works with a team of talented back end devs. How would you hand off CSS that has been compiled by a preprocessor to a back end developer?
48:00 How do I trademark my personal brand?
54:41 I have fallen in love in how easy CodeKit makes developing websites. But when I work with other people, often in Rails, they just use the terminal to compile the Sass. But I really miss the compiling + minifying of JavaScript. Is there a way to do this without CodeKit?
Sponsors
21:15 Discover Meteor The best way to learn how to build real-time Javascript web apps. Get 20% off the awesome book now!
39:49 InCTRL Conf 2 Day conference in Orlando, FL. Fantastic speaker line up. Use code “SHOPTALK” for $100 off!
Show Links
Mina’s Website
Mina on Twitter
Parago
Pink Pixels Creative
Ladies in Tech Podcast
AutoPrefixer
Meteor.js
Sidebar.io
Black Girls Code
Chris’s 24 Ways Article: Grunt
AIGA
Girl Develop It
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