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SASS vs. LESS, The CSS Preprocessor Debate
I've never once used LESS in a production frontend. Use SASS (but use the SCSS syntax, not the SASS syntax like this article)! Also there is probably no need to use something like Compass when you can use gulp-css or similar.A (relatively) recent debate has arisen in the web design community over which CSS preprocessor to use. In this article, I’ll explain the difference between the two major players, SASS and LESS, and explain which is my preferred preprocessor and why.
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PHP, mySQL and FTP on an Amazon EC2 Instance
Since this post it has become insanely easy to spin up EC2 instances with PHP, mySQL and FTP, especially if all you want is a Wordpress install. Do not follow the advice here.In the past couple of months I’ve been diving into developing with PHP, to broaden my skills by learning a new language, initially as part of Fred Boyle’s code challenge. This also gave me an excuse to mess around with Amazon’s myriad cloud services, something that I’ve wanted to try for a while. Specifically Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, a component of Amazon’s Web Services which you can use to set up and manage a cloud-based web server instance using Amazon’s extensive network and computational power.
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The Beginning
I suppose the best way to start off this blog is with some introductions. I’m Martin Brennan, and I’m a web developer based in Brisbane, Queensland which is in the lovely nation of Australia. I love web development, reading, writing and imbibing. But enough about me for now. Let’s get into it!
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