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 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 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…
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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.
By Jason Seifer | 02 February 2012 | Category: Ruby
In this 4 minute video, you will learn about the concept of control flow in Ruby. This goes in to using if/else statements and case statements
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 | 01 February 2012 | Category: Code, Design
Hi designers! I’m not a designer. Sorry. I’m a developer. I can barely tell when things look good or not. This week I learned that there are different ampersands out there (thanks, Allison!). But that’s not why I’m writing today. We all have to work together. Professionally, one way we do that is by using version control. A version control system tracks changes to your code. There are a lot of different version control systems out there. Today we’ll be talking about git. Specifically, as it relates to designers making web sites.
By Nick Pettit | 01 February 2012 | Category: Typography, Web Fonts
It’s no secret that I am in love with Google Fonts. In fact, I use Google Fonts frequently in Treehouse videos. :)
The ongoing drawback to Google Fonts has been the smaller selection compared to other font services, but that’s rapidly changing. Even better, an editorialized web page called “Beautiful Web Type” has popped up that showcases the best fonts that Google has to offer. Loving this!
By Mat Helme | 31 January 2012 | Category: Code, CSS3, Design, User Interface
Nick La over at Web Designer Wall put together a great article on how to style images with CSS3. The styles include: Basic Style(rounded corners), Embossed Style, Soft Embossed Style, Cutout Style and Glossy Overlay. I personally love the Embossed Style, it’s ideal for interface buttons. Originally Nick ran into some issues when styling for a responsive layout. He quickly fixed them with an alternate solution. Check out the article to see his solution. Great job Nick, we appreciate the tips and tricks!
By Kevin Dees | 30 January 2012 | Category: Code, Design
I love responsive web design. It just gets me like no one else can. Now responsive web design gets Photoshop too. A recent post by Elliot Jays Stocks sheds light on the topic and includes a great template for designing your next PSD. You can find the download link on his website or view the simply view the demo if you are impatient like me.
By Ryan Carson | 30 January 2012 | Category: Events
We’ve just confirmed that industry leaders Kevin Rose and Jason Calacanis will be speaking at Future Insights Live in Vegas on April 30 – May 4th!
Future Insights Live is our new show that combines Future of Web Apps, Future of Web Design and Future of Mobile into one huge 5-day, 5-track, 1,500 person conference. It’s going to be epic and you won’t want to miss it.
Early bird pricing (save $200) is almost over, so grab your ticket today.
By Amit Bijlani | 26 January 2012 | Category: iOS
In this 7 minute video, you will learn the basics of the UITabBarController and how to create one using the Xcode project template.
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 | 26 January 2012 | Category: Design
Twitter Bootstrap 2.0 will be coming out January 31st. In the mean time, there is a pre-release you can check out and report on any bugs that you find. Twitter Bootstrap is a great HTML and CSS framework that has been gaining a lot of popularity recently. You can check out sites built with bootstrap on the unofficial Built With Bootstrap tumblr.
By Mat Helme | 26 January 2012 | Category: Code, Design
What better way to start off the new year than a fresh new Dribbble portfolio? If you are a designer with minimal coding experience and want to display your Dribbble work in all browser sizes, you have come to the right place. We will be creating a HTML5 one page portfolio which pulls your Dribbble information and is responsive in all browsers. This little project will be presented in two parts.
By Mat Helme | 25 January 2012 | Category: Code, CSS, CSS3, Design, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Typography
Just when you thought scrolling your web page was getting boring. Scrollorama has stepped the scroll game up with this remarkable jQuery Plugin. Scrollorama allows you to manipulate text when you scroll the page. You can do everything from Transitions to Zoom to Parallax. Check out the Scrollorama site to view some great examples and the plugin’s documentation.
This Plugin is great for landing pages and highly interactive web applications. Like CSS3 transitions, use your animations sparingly.
By Ryan Carson | 25 January 2012 | Category: Treehouse
We’ve just released our new Treehouse Student plan and it’s only $9 per month! It’s the equivalent to our Gold plan, which is $49 per month, so you’re saving a massive 82%. Anyone who attends a school, college or university is eligible. After you sign up, we’ll ask you to provide proof of your student program.
Benefits include:
If you’d like to get Treehouse in to your entire school, college or university, please contact Chris and he’ll be happy to help!
There’s a money-back guarantee, and you aren’t tied in to a contract. Sign up today.
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