Jason Corradino – Developer
Posts tagged HAML/SCSS
Kenmore Connect
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Kenmore Connect
A couple months ago, I was borrowed out to the Ruby team here at Sears to help them with the Kenmore Connect project; a project that was, at that point, running a bit behind and needed a bit of help. I’ve had some experience with Rails in the past, and I didn’t have a whole lot on my plate at the time, so I was chosen as the person that could probably help the most. My role was primarily front-end, dealing with heavily responsive HAML/SCSS and a whole lot of jQuery, but I did do some work with rails – including building some device-based helpers that would help determine what environments are being used on page-load.
I am not terribly proficient with Rails, as I haven’t had much of a chance to work with it in any real projects; but it is projects like this that make me want to pick it up and run with it, as it is a very fun language to work with.
The coolest bits of this project
There were a few firsts for me in this project. The coolest by far was probably the responsiveness of the site. We had to create everything while keeping a responsive design in mind – that is, always thinking about the desktop view, tablet view, and mobile view. This kept us on our toes resulted in an amazingly usable site, no matter the device you are using it on. Also, I’ve never worked with HAML/SCSS, and this project opened me up to the amazing possibilities of programatic CSS. it really seems like a huge piece of the CSS engine that is just missing. Just the ability to set and use variables was a godsend, and really made it incredibly powerful.
Kenmore was an awesome client, and this was an awesome project. It really makes me look forward to rails work in the future, since the language is incredibly fun to write and work with.
Happy coding!
The most interesting project of my career.
0I just finished what is probably the most interesting project of my career thus far. This project involved a lot of work with responsive HAML/SCSS, a slew of jQuery, and a hefty serving of Ruby on Rails. I was brought onto the project a little late, as it was running behind and absolutely needed to launch on time. I started on it about a month and a half ago.
My role was mostly front-end oriented with HAML/SCSS/jQuery with only a bit of Rails work required of me, but I took the opportunity to get more comfortable with Rails, and took as many back-end tickets as I could (and that I thought I was capable of handling on my own without causing more work for someone else later on). But I honestly have to say that the most impressive thing about this site is likely the responsive nature of it. It is completely responsive, and scales based on the screen that is seeing it using media queries. Apparently this is the first project of it’s kind at Sears, and we were setting a standard for the rest of the company to follow with our work – laying the foundation, if you will.
Stay tuned for images, the link to the live site, and a much more detailed synapsis of the work I did for Kenmore.
