Posts Tagged ‘DotLess’
Chirpy Has a New Cage (and New Features!)
Already know sir Zippy biblically? Well, then. Due to overwhelming demand (and a deadly case of the avian bird flu), Chirpy (aka Chirpy Zippy) is now available as an Alpha release on Codeplex.
Let’s start with the obvious. Adding Visual Studio AddIns. First, open your My Documents/Visual Studio folder (for me, it’s “C:\Users\Evan\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\”). If you don’t see a folder here named “AddIns,” go ahead and create it. Now, when you’re adding a new AddIn to Visual Studio, all you’ll have to do (in most cases) is this: drop the .AddIn and .dll files into the AddIns folder.
This post is another “milestone” in the arduous journey of the Zippy bird. It’s an ugly bird, but the process of “making fluff out of feathers” has always suited me.
Wayne Brantley released a nice DotLess translator a couple months ago. Before that, Phil Haack created a nice T4 template for mashing and minifying DotLess, Css, and Js files. Today, in the spirit of my Zippy Series, I’ve enhanced (or deprecated [on?]) Wayne’s creation with a couple of new features, which I’ll discuss briefly below.
Yesterday, I introduced Zippy. Today, I gave Zippy some serious wings. After taking a look at Justin Etheredge’s Project Formerly Named Bundler (i.e. PFNB), I was inspired to add some Bundler-like functionality to Zippy. As I said in my last post, Zippy is definitely not a full-fledged, complete, fly-off-the-shelf bundling framework like PFNB, but it’s definitely a tool that could be used by anyone who might need a little more control over their, uh, bundling. Truly.
Alright, friends. So I’ve spent the last couple of days creating my ZipController. You can see the good, the bad, and the ugly by perusing through my posts. This morning, I started my day by cleaning up all the ZipController “demo code,” testing and retesting all of the functionality, and packaging up the whole project as nicely and as neatly as I could for your easy consuming.
Less for .Net (or .Less, or DotLess, or Less, etc.) is a pretty cool way to make super-wet (or super-lubed?) stylesheets a little bit more, eh, DRY.
