Over the past couple of months, my interests have peaked in the land Ruby on Rails in particular SASS (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) which is apart of the RubyGem plugin, HAML. This was initially introduced to me while working on a project for Raincity Studios and the brilliant developers at OpenBand Labs by lead designer and front-end developer, Alex Bendiken.

SASS (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are useful for creating manageable stylesheets.

So Drupalcamp Vancouver is right around the corner and I'm sitting here preparing for 2 of my sessions: Designers Guide to jQuery and Drupal Theming. Both sessions are focused towards beginners as well as designers, but as always, all are welcome to attend and participate in discussion.

The jQuery session will be back-to-back with the Developers Guide to jQuery lead by a collegue of mine, Katherine Bailey. I will be covering the very basics of jQuery for web designers who are interested in utilizing the potential of jQuery but are over-come by the learning curve of having to learn a programming language. Believe me, it's easy! I'll also be doing a live tutorial as well as some simple implementations of jQuery animations within Drupal.

Our Drupal Theming session, lead by Mark Yuasa and myself (and maybe Hubert), will be an overview of taking a design to a functioning drupal theme. If you happened to miss our theming session in January and wanted to attend, this will be the one to be at.

Hope to see some new faces and meet new people! See you then.

Update:

Here's my post on the slides from this presentation. Please leave comments and questions in that post and not this one.
http://stevekrueger.com/braingarden/2008/05/10/designers-guide-jquery-drupalcamp-vancouver-presentation