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Help! Looking for a CSS DSL!

Update: Today Less CSS for .NET, or just .Less,  was released. Its a port of the ruby LESS library and exactly what I was/am looking for. I updated my question on SO already. —– old post —— I posted this on stackoverflow.com already….. I’ve been working on a really large project for almost 2 years and the client requirements keep changing. These changes, of course, effect everything and I would like to find a way to work with the CSS in a more dynamic fashion. I assume I could get one of the ruby or python CSS DSLs running under ironRuby/Python but this client is...
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AutoDeploy Rework

Tonight I reworked in workflow, persistence, mapping, and entities in AutoDeploy. The fire draft consisted of a single entity type with long descriptive janky attributes. The new core goes something like this Deployment has a list of tasks. Tasks can be have a task type. Example 1 Creating a new deployment: 1: var dep = new Deployment() 2: .AddTask( 3: new FluentTask() 4: .Source("") 5: .Destination("") 6: .Type(Task.TaskType.Subversion) 7: .Save()) 8: .AddTask( 9: new FluentTask() 10: .Source("") ...
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Loading DLLs at runtime

Use DllImport from using System.Runtime.InteropServices
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Tools I want to use more

As a follow up to my tools post here is a list of the tools I’d like to spend more time with. The % next to the title is an estimation as the likelihood I’ll do any serious work with the tool/software/etc. ReSharper – 20% http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/ Simply put, ReSharper is a must-have productivity tool for .NET developers. It fully integrates with Visual Studio to intelligently and powerfully extend the functionality that is native to Visual Studio. ReSharper provides solution-wide error highlighting on the fly, instant solutions for found errors, over 30 advanced code refactorings,...
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