Comments on: Herding Code 118: Paul Betts on SassAndCoffee

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:51:42 +0000

#Chocolatey was mentioned around 46:22… http://chocolatey.org and the documentation is at https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki

By: Henning Anderssen

Henning Anderssen — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:51:09 +0000

Mindscape recently released a VS addin that adds SASS, Less and CoffeeScript support.

http://www.mindscapehq.com/products/web-workbench

By: Einar Egilsson

Einar Egilsson — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:06:46 +0000

Very interesting show. Jon mentioned Zen Coding, the original author of that actually maintains versions in both Javascript and Python. I created a VS addin for that using IronPython back in 2009. It’s still available at:

http://tech.einaregilsson.com/2009/11/12/zen-coding-visual-studio-addin/

It’s using a version of Zen Coding that’s very outdated now, I lost interest after finishing the interesting technical part of actually running it in VS. But if anyone wants to pick it up the source is available.

The recent version of Zen Coding actually have a great plugin architecture, they define the text editor interface they want to work against, with methods like selectText, getText ,putText etc, and plugin authors just have to implement that for each text editor. I just lost interest because I found I didn’t actually use the plugin much, it’s a great demo, but for me at least I don’t need to write html that fast :)

By: Dwayne

Dwayne — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:53:03 +0000

Regarding the comment on the desire for IDE support for Zen Coding — there is a ReSharper plugin:
http://resharperpowertoys.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=ZenCoding