Oddly for someone whose political affiliations have always lain in the left tradition, I’m more and more fascinated by, and attracted to, the philosophy of Roger Scruton, who is a conservative. I find his manner of setting forth arguments – both in writing and on television – to be irresistible. It’s somehow both gentle and passionate. But it’s more than that: I really do agree with many of his ideas.
Anyway, I was looking at Mark Dooley’s biography of Scruton on Amazon and noticed this 5-star review:
This certainly is not my kind of book. It is a Christmas present for which I was asked so clearly it IS the kind of book enjoyed by the person who asked for it.
Archive for June, 2010…
CSS Abstracted: Update
In a recent post I described my first foray into…well now, what am I supposed to call them? CSS frameworks? No, that doesn’t work, because Blueprint and YUI and 960 and others are often described as such. CSS meta-frameworks? That appeals to me, but it’s rather obscure. CSS compilers? Yes, perhaps.
But wait. There are CSS compilers, and then there are the libraries and frameworks and plugins that are built around them. Well, I guess that’s where the term “meta-framework” comes in.
One such meta-framework is Compass, which is built around the core language and compiler Sass. I mentioned Compass briefly in my other post. At the time, I had dismissed it as being more than I required, or more than I … read on »
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