Nicole Sullivan
Redefining the practice of CSS
On the web
- Website: Stubbornella
- Twitter: @stubbornella
Nicole is an evangelist, front-end performance consultant, CSS Ninja, and author. She started the Object-Oriented CSS open source project, which answers the question: how do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? She also consulted with Facebook and the W3C, and is the co-creator of Smush.it, an image optimization service in the cloud. She is passionate about CSS, web standards, and scalable front-end architecture for large commercial websites.
She co-authored Even Faster Websites and blogs at http://stubbornella.org.
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CSS Tools for Massive Websites
Perhaps you like the idea of Object Oriented CSS, but your website has out-of-control CSS bloat. You know your performance is being impacted, but how do you move from organic CSS with no particular architecture to something lighter, more logical, and easier to maintain? How do we automate some of the heavy-lifting and stop wasting our own time?
CSS is typically the most difficult layer to automate, but a more clearly defined CSS architecture makes lint much more powerful. In this session, Nicole will show you how she improved the CSS at Salesforce, Box.net, and Facebook, and demo tools that you can use to test your own CSS.
In the session you will learn about preprocessors, lint tools, and unit testing. By the end of the session, you'll be able to decide which tools are right for your project.