This is an article written by Zeno Rocha. He is the author of some cool open source projects like Browser Diet, jQuery Boilerplate and Wormz, a HTML5 Chrome Experiment. He used to work as a software developer at Petrobras (the largest company in Latin America) and Globoesporte.com (the most accessed sports website in Brazil). Now he’s a Front-end Engineer at Liferay and co-founder of BrazilJS Foundation. With only 22 years-old he is a reference in Brazil when the subject is front-end development. Check out his website or follow him on Twitter.

Back in 2009, Sergey Chikuyonok wrote an article to present a new way of writing HTML and CSS code. This revolutionary plugin, called Zen Coding, has helped many developers through the years and has now reached a new level.

Emmet, previously known as Zen Coding, is the most productive and time-saving text-editor plugin you will ever see. By instantly expanding simple abbreviations into complex code snippets, Emmet can turn you into a more productive developer.

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