Ubi panis ibi patria

each time i pull a new bash shell, i’m enlightened by /usr/bin/fortune

this one time caught me off guard and I had to share it.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for
counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. For the
experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth
them; but in new things, abuseth them. The errors of young men are the ruin
of business; but the errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might
have been done, or sooner. Young men, in the conduct and management of
actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly
to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few
principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not how they innovate,
which draws unknown inconveniences; and, that which doubleth all errors, will
not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop
nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,
repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but
content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly, it is good to
compound employments of both … because the virtues of either age may correct
the defects of both.
– Francis Bacon, “Essay on Youth and Age”

Been spending a lot of time with SASS and HAML. Awesome templating frameworks. I started by following @chrisepstein the powerhouse developer behind the compass-css project. After getting accustomed to Sass it only makes sense to use HAML for compliant xHTML.

The most significant characteristic with haml and sass versus html and css is nested hierarchy of its elements. This takes a little while to get used to, since we’ve never written in white-space aware code (like python), yet is very powerful in eliminating un-necessary markup, following DRY conventions. Secondly, sass mixins, imports and patterns within compass-css framework make HTML5/xHTML design a sinch – without ever using photoshop.

We are excited to offer this to clients, saving precious development time, dollars, and energy.

This slideshare really helped me out a lot and I’m posting it for my future reference and for anyone else into learning Sass and Haml.