Treehouse is looking for four new awesome teachers to add to the Treehouse Team! If you’re a talented designer or developer, this is an absolute dream job.
By Ryan Carson | 22 February 2012 | Category: Events
I’m super excited to announce that Peter Vesterbacka, the Founder of Angry Birds, will be speaking at Future Insights Live in Vegas, April 30 – May 4th.
There are only 19 Early Bird tickets left, so buy your ticket here. See you there!
By Mat Helme | 22 February 2012 | Category: CSS, CSS3, Design, HTML and XHTML, HTML5, jQuery
Moving forward ladies and gents we are onto round two of this two part tutorial. In part one we covered the HTML/CSS/jQuery of our one page responsive Dribbble portfolio site. If you missed the first post please check it out here. Now it’s time to convert HTML to PHP and use the Dribbble API to pull your data. Plus IE fixes.
By Amit Bijlani | 21 February 2012 | Category: iOS
In this 3 minute video, you will be introduced to Automatic Reference Counting or ARC which eliminates the need for manually maintaining object life-cycles by adding code at compile time to ensure that objects live as long as necessary.
This video is from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos on topics like …
New videos are added regularly, so it’s a great way to stay up-to-date on all the latest technology and methods. Browse the entire library of videos.
By Jason Seifer | 21 February 2012 | Category: Ruby
The Ruby team just recently released Ruby 1.9.3 patch level 125. The big news in this release is LLVM/clang support as well as GCC 4.7 support. There is also a security fix of the Ruby OpenSSL extension and various other bug fixes. You may notice some speed improvements as well.
You can view the full Change log and both rvm and ruby-build both support the new release in their respective latest versions.
By Cat Clark | 20 February 2012 | Category: Events
Unless you’ve been kicking it hermit-style for the past few months, you’ll have heard about our shiny new super conference, Future Insights Live: a week-long web fest, with heaps of amazing speakers and all the most pertinent web topics – combining the best elements of our world class “Future of…” events, FOWD, FOWA and FOM.
Last week, event mascot-in-chief Fil Bot joined us in the offices, for a chat with Ryan Carson, founder of Carsonified and Treehouse.
The pair discussed the Future Insights Live conference, Ryan’s conference session on the new gamification layer in Treehouse, and the joys of spending time with 1,000 or so of the top minds in web and mobile design and development.
Early Bird pricing for Future Insights Live ends this week, so head over to Registration and we’ll see you in April…
Hope you can join us for that frozen margarita :)
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By Mat Helme | 15 February 2012 | Category: Code, Design, HTML5, Mobile, Web Apps, Web Industry
Bert Appward of the Google team recently released a superb interactive book titled “Field Guide to Web Applications“. Through the literature Bert presents the best skills and practices of building modern web apps. The guide covers the following topics:
Not only is it a great read but a fun experience. The guide has an almost tangible feel to it as the pages flip and has a strong emphasis on texture. I recommend checking it out.
By Jason Seifer | 14 February 2012 | Category: Code
After part one of the git for designers post, Kim Røen suggested in the comments doing a post with some instructions on using the command line. This is that post. We’re going to be focusing on the Mac side of things, but a lot of the concepts in here will apply to all command line programs as well.
By Nick Pettit | 14 February 2012 | Category: Accessibility
In this 5 minute video, you’ll gain a broad understanding of accessibility and learn about its place in web design and development.
This video is from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos on topics like …
New videos are added regularly, so it’s a great way to stay up-to-date on all the latest technology and methods. Browse the entire library of videos.
By Amit Bijlani | 13 February 2012 | Category: Asides
Recently there has been a lot of chatter about mobile apps uploading your entire address book to their servers. The app makers claim that their intentions are noble, yet they have no right to the data unless you give consent. As an informed consumer, we should learn how to detect that an app is phoning home and what information it is sending.
By Jim Hoskins | 09 February 2012 | Category: Asides
I’m a developer, have been for a long time. I’ve been wrting code for the web for the past decade in my life. I think I might be stuck in a bubble, I look to the web to solve problems that can be solved better in simpler ways. And looking around, I know I am not the only one.
I want to tell you a story of a couple of problems that we’ve tried to solve several times with technology, when all we needed was a couple dollars worth of office supplies.
By Jason Seifer | 08 February 2012 | Category: Ruby on Rails
Greetings, folks! If you haven’t been keeping up with the latest Rails news, we have a new version! Ruby on Rails 3.2.1 has recently been released with some very welcome changes!
By Ryan Carson | 08 February 2012 | Category: Treehouse
You can now create a Treehouse Group Account for your company, university, school or any grouping of two or more people. Group plans are 25% cheaper so it’s a great way to save money.
By Amit Bijlani | 07 February 2012 | Category: iOS
In this 6 minute video, we will get you started with iOS development by learning about the benefits of Apple’s iOS Dev center and how to gain access to the integrated development environment (IDE) called Xcode.
This video is from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos on topics like …
New videos are added regularly, so it’s a great way to stay up-to-date on all the latest technology and methods. Browse the entire library of videos.
By Nick Pettit | 07 February 2012 | Category: Treehouse
We recently launched Treehouse and, thanks to you, it’s been successful beyond our wildest expectations. Thank you all so much!
We had so much fun celebrating with our previous giveaway, that we thought we would do another one.
By Allison Grayce | 06 February 2012 | Category: Code, CSS, Design, Inspiration, User Interface
Lo and behold, Mr. Dan Cederholm has done it again! This time the folks over at SimpleBits unveiled their latest project, Pears, an open source WordPress theme that enables you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly.
By Lou Morgan | 06 February 2012 | Category: Events
If you caught Ryan’s article last week, he told you about our brand new, not to be missed Vegas event – Future Insights Live! We’ve combined the Future of Web Apps, Design and Mobile into one massive five day event all geared toward you! Whether you’re a Web Designer, Developer or Entrepreneur there will be something for everyone.
We are launching a brand new scheduling app within the next couple of weeks which will list full details of the huge conference schedule and give you an overall feel for the event. So with that in mind, we have decided to extend our Early Birds (saving you $200) until 24th Feb! That way you can see EXACTLY what you’re paying for.
We’ll be launching the full schedule by the end of the week, so please check it out and join us for our biggest event yet!
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By Nick Pettit | 06 February 2012 | Category: Design, User Interface
Developers often write tests to make sure their code is working properly, and designers should be thinking along the same lines.
By Cat Clark | 02 February 2012 | Category: Business, Events, Mobile, UX
At Carsonified Towers, we’re all getting super excited for May, when The Future of Web Design hits London for another three days of learning and inspiration. As ever, we kick off the show with four full-day workshops – each lead by a totally inspirational industry leader. From 9am am to 5pm, we’ll be rolling up our sleeves and knuckling down for a serious hit of web savvy. Numbers are capped at 40 for each workshop, ensuring a great learning environment.
This year’s chosen workshop topics are already proving popular. First up, we’ve got the unstoppable force of web awesomeness that is Paul Boag. Director of Headscape, Paul will be leading a crash course in Running A Successful Web Design Business: ”We like to think that being a successful independent web designer is about creating great websites. Its not. Running your own business is about a lot more than having the right professional skills. ”
After wowing the crowds as a Rising Star back in 2011, Steve Fisher has rapidly become one of our most popular speakers. He’ll be joining us again in London to lead his Rock Solid UX Deliverables workshop: “No longer something that has to always be hugely complex and costly, we’ll cover the back-to-basics approach to UX design in this workshop and how to practically dispatch a rock solid responsive web design UX deliverables package.”
Next up, creator of the uber popular Coach to 5K app, Josh Clark will be crossing the Atlantic to deliver his Teaching Touch workshop – a sell out success at FOWD NYC last year: “The workshop presents nitty-gritty ‘rule of thumb’ design techniques that together form a framework for crafting finger-friendly interface metaphors, affordances, and gestures for a new generation of mobile apps that inform and delight.”
Last but not least, longtime Carsonified favourites, the Web Standardistas will be joining the fun, to teach their Good Ideas Grow On Paper workshop: “Armed with some fundamental design principles and an abundance of tools – which naturally includes the Standardistas’ ‘Bag of Awesome™’ (containing a veritable cornucopia of material) – we show the aspiring analogue designer a range of methods for breaking out of the stranglehold of the often clichéd digital world.”
Which workshop appeals the most to you? For detailed information on all of them, head on over to our schedule page…
Thanks to Nationaal Archief for the photo used above.
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By Amit Bijlani | 02 February 2012 | Category: Asides
If you like jsFiddle, then you will love SQL Fiddle. It allows you to select a database, build a schema, populate the schema and run queries against it. The service currently supports MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Why is this interesting? You can compare databases, post questions to forums along with your schema and query or just prototype an idea.
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