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Zen Coding

Posted by kdawson on from the change-your-life dept.

Download Squad has a quick review, with video, of Zen Coding (Google Code project page here), an extremely well-thought-out accelerator for anyone who codes HTML. Its syntax is CSS-like. Zen Coding has been around for a while — here's its author Sergey Chikuyonok's introduction in Smashing Magazine from last November — and it has now picked up support for more than a dozen editing environments, including Notepad++ and TextMate.

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  1. The lesser known Zen Coding koans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    such as:

    * What is the sound of one interrupt flapping?
    * If an exception gets thrown in an operating system, and no one is around to catch it, does it make a sound?

    1. Re:The lesser known Zen Coding koans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I prefer my koans with ice cream.

  2. Re:Zen by istartedi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there a better commentary on the west's general inability to grok zen than our endless bastardization of the word, zen?

    ZEN is not a ticker symbol on the NYSE yet, so I guess not.

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    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
  3. Re:I nominate this for all-time... by greg1104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You should save your vote for when its dupe shows up in a couple of days.

  4. The master told me by goombah99 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The master told me to mediate on the sound of one parenthesis closing. I am ashamed that I don't know what this means. Or was that his point.

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    Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.