I've been working on Paperless Post's pattern guide for almost 3 years. I'd like to go over all of the things I've learned, heartache I've experienced, and wise(ish) things that resulted.
A pattern guide is more than a set of styles. It's a contract between product and development. Our job is to make something easy to understand and portable for every day use and contribution.
Topics being covered:
Extract your pattern guide into a reusable package.
The basics for you Sass Pattern Guide
Setting up a linter
Separating our your folders
Identify repeating elements
Deciding the best way to package your front end for your company/team
A review of gems/npm/grunt
Setting up a new project for your extracted pattern guide
Tips for displaying your pattern guide and why it’s important
Hosting tips
Testing your pattern guide with unit tests
Hooking up a specificity graph
Determining how changes will be merged back into your pattern guide from submissions
Including your pattern guide into old and new projects
Workshops: Coding Exercise (required for workshops only)
Ideally, I want everyone to walk out with their own skeletal beginning of a pattern guide. I haven't yet decided if I will be giving them dummy code or asking them to bring their own. It will be important for them to apply the skills to their own code base afterwards, but the highest bang for their buck will be to follow along in class, see and answer and be able to work from there.
I have lots of experience teaching programming related classes and will balance between walking through code generation as well as letting workshop attendees experiment on their own while gathering everyone up at the end of a problem to go over our findings.
All material will be printed out and resources available ahead of time to give attendees different ways of working through the material to assist best in their method of learning.
Rachel Ober is a Ruby on Rails developer based in New York City. A true renaissance woman, Rachel has significant experience in and a passion for user experience, user interface and cognitive design. Rachel is a senior developer at Paperless Post where she serves as technical mentor for all front end developers on the development team and leads front end development for the company. She also teaches the ins and outs of Rails at General Assembly for their Back End Ruby on Rails course. Rachel encourages other women developers to hone their skills by contributing to the 3-day conference Write/Speak/Code as a co-organizer. Founded in 2013, Rachel organizes and volunteers her time teaching women Ruby and Ruby on Rails through RailsBridge NYC. Rachel lives in Brooklyn with her husband and fur-child Isabella and loves scrapbooking and card making.
The Portable Pattern Guide
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I've been working on Paperless Post's pattern guide for almost 3 years. I'd like to go over all of the things I've learned, heartache I've experienced, and wise(ish) things that resulted.
A pattern guide is more than a set of styles. It's a contract between product and development. Our job is to make something easy to understand and portable for every day use and contribution.
Topics being covered:
Workshops: Coding Exercise (required for workshops only)
Ideally, I want everyone to walk out with their own skeletal beginning of a pattern guide. I haven't yet decided if I will be giving them dummy code or asking them to bring their own. It will be important for them to apply the skills to their own code base afterwards, but the highest bang for their buck will be to follow along in class, see and answer and be able to work from there.
I have lots of experience teaching programming related classes and will balance between walking through code generation as well as letting workshop attendees experiment on their own while gathering everyone up at the end of a problem to go over our findings.
All material will be printed out and resources available ahead of time to give attendees different ways of working through the material to assist best in their method of learning.
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Rachel Ober is a Ruby on Rails developer based in New York City. A true renaissance woman, Rachel has significant experience in and a passion for user experience, user interface and cognitive design. Rachel is a senior developer at Paperless Post where she serves as technical mentor for all front end developers on the development team and leads front end development for the company. She also teaches the ins and outs of Rails at General Assembly for their Back End Ruby on Rails course. Rachel encourages other women developers to hone their skills by contributing to the 3-day conference Write/Speak/Code as a co-organizer. Founded in 2013, Rachel organizes and volunteers her time teaching women Ruby and Ruby on Rails through RailsBridge NYC. Rachel lives in Brooklyn with her husband and fur-child Isabella and loves scrapbooking and card making.
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