Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Ben Orenstein is joined this week by Phil LaPier, the creator of Bourbon and a designer at thoughtbot. Ben and Phil discuss the design process, fundamentals of visual design, common design errors, and how to be a better designer (even if you're a developer), and how to work with designers as a developer. They also answer some audience questions about design: How to handle feedback from clients, and HAML vs. HTML. Bourbon Dribbble Dan Cederholm - Dribbble Lea Verou - Twitter Benjamin De Cock - Twitter Jason Santa Maria - Twitter Trent Walton Adobe Fireworks Bourbon Sass Bourbon Grid-Width Bourbon Font Stacks

Ben Orenstein and Joe Ferris (and the surprise special guest Seana Quental) start the series off with a very technical discussion about Polymorphism vs. Conditionals. We also answer some of the audience questions we asked for last week. CVS SVN Git Feature branch code reviews Rebasing Composition over Inheritance Objects on Rails, Avdi Grimm NullObject Rails Refactoring Example: Introduce Null Object #try God objects Rich Hickey's Railsconf Keynote Kingdom of Nouns, Steve Yeggie Ruby blocks StrategyPattern CommandPattern Clearance Gang of Four Design Patterns