By Amit Bijlani | 15 May 2012 | Category: iOS
In this 5:30 minute video, you will learn that a category is used to define additional methods of an existing class without subclassing. And blocks are simply a block of executable code that have access to local variables and can be stored or passed around.
By Amit Bijlani | 30 April 2012 | Category: iOS
In this 6:46 minute video, you’ll learn about property lists also known as a “plist”, a structured data representation used as a convenient way to store, organize, and access standard types of data.
By Jason Seifer | 25 April 2012 | Category: Ruby
In this 7:18 minute video, you’ll learn what hashes are, how they work in Ruby, and how to create them yourself.
By Lou Morgan | 18 April 2012 | Category: Events
We have an amazing late addition to our Future Insights Live show taking place in Vegas in less than 2 weeks time…. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Lead Developer, Zach Ware - will be joining us on stage for a special extended Keynote!
That’s right – the infamous Vegas company will be joining us to discuss The City As A Startup. Zappos are helping accelerate community, learning, and serendipity in downtown Vegas to generate productivity, innovation, and happiness and will share their insights with you.
If you’d like to see Tony and Zach on stage, they’ll be speaking on Friday 4th May at 8:45am! Check out our full schedule and register today.
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By Nick Pettit | 11 April 2012 | Category: Accessibility
In this 6 minute video, you’ll learn how to create a simple bar graph from scratch by using HTML and CSS. This bar graph is made with screen readers in mind, and doesn’t make use of images or browser plugins.
By Cat Clark | 05 April 2012 | Category: Events, UX
With our new show Future Insights Live less than a month away, we’ve been getting more and more excited about all the great content our speakers will be delivering.
Longtime Future of Web Design favourite, Aarron Walter (UX design lead at MailChimp) is presenting a keynote on “Honest Customer Relationships,” an approach to communicating with customers that weaves through nearly every activity of the business, including UX and social media platforms.
The purpose, according to Aarron, is to understand why communicating honestly with your customers (as opposed to, for example, BP’s superficial marketing effort before the catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon spill) is so important, and how to get there.
“Companies that are scared to be honest, or that have a dark streak in them, are going to be forced to shift,” he says. “The right way to do this is with a great deal of honesty and sincerity — sharing your personality and humanity to create a connection with your audience.”
It’s a fascinating premise, and it’s about so much more than establishing a presence on Twitter!
For the full interview you can head on over to our FI Live Blog
(Thanks to Yoshi82 via Flickr for the image above!)
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By Amit Bijlani | 04 April 2012 | Category: iOS
In this 6:25 minute video, you’ll learn how to modify the tint color for some of the UIKit controls.
By Allison Grayce | 04 April 2012 | Category: Treehouse
In this 3:34 minute video, you’ll learn the basics of what Photoshop layers are and how they work together to create a completed graphic.
By Jason Seifer | 04 April 2012 | Category: Ruby
In this 4:29 minute video, you’ll learn what arrays are, how they work in Ruby, and how to create them yourself.
By Jason Seifer | 01 April 2012 | Category: HTML and XHTML
Even though everyone is getting around to supporting all of the standards being set forth in the HTML5 specification, the WHATWG has been hard at work with HTML6. If you haven’t been keeping up with the forums, IRC channel, and meetings, this post will fill you in on what’s been happening and what you should start to expect out of HTML6.
By The Ambassador | 01 April 2012 | Category: Treehouse
Hello, Friends! I’m here to give you an update and talk to you about something very important. As you all know, we at Team Treehouse have been producing videos over on Treehouse Island to help you learn web design, web development, and iOS programming. We’ve received incredibly valuable feedback from you regarding these topics. One thing that most of you have expressed is a desire for more. Here are a few of the different pieces of constructive criticism that we’ve received since our landing here at Treehouse Island:
By Lou Morgan | 28 March 2012 | Category: Events
Calling all coders, designers, project managers and more! Heroku is sponsoring an awesome segment to our Future Insights Live show where you can collaborate and innovate in our 4-hour hackathon!
There will be beer, snacks, and beanbags. All we ask is that you sit back, network with fellow attendees and have a go at building and deploying your very own app in this hands-on session. It’s going to be a blast!
The hack will take place on Wednesday May 2 from 5:00 – 9:00PM. We’ll be releasing more details shortly, in the meantime check out our updated schedule online and see what other awesome things we have on offer!
Hacking not your bag?
If you’re not really into the idea of our hackathon and you’d like to take part in something… let’s say… a little more offbeat – we’ve arranged an Instameet photowalk with one of our awesome speakers and Instagram lover, Mike Kus.
The Instameet will be taking place after the workshops on Monday 30th April from 5:30PM. Join us for a wander around the sites of Vegas. Always fun!
Just a little note – our awesome hotel deal runs out this week so if you want to be close to the action we recommend you book up asap. Head over to our information page for more details special room rate of just $97 (plus taxes) at the MGM Grand which will be running out at the end of this week!
Photo courtesy of heathercapri
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By Amit Bijlani | 28 March 2012 | Category: iOS
This 2.5 minute video teaches you about notifications. A notification is a message sent to one or more observing objects informing them of an event. The event observing object has to register with a singleton notification center.
By Amit Bijlani | 27 March 2012 | Category: iOS
In this 5 minute video, you’ll learn about the basic terminology of the Core Data framework which uses managed objects, contexts and the persistent store coordinator to save data to a data store. Understanding the basic terminology will help you implement Core Data effectively.
By Jason Seifer | 27 March 2012 | Category: Ruby, Treehouse
In this 5:52 minute video, you’ll learn a bit about what numbers are in Ruby and how to instantiate numbers of the Fixnum and Float classes.
By Lou Morgan | 21 March 2012 | Category: Events
Have you recently launched your web or mobile app? Are you almost there, ready to launch? If so, we are giving YOU the opportunity to get up on stage at Future Insights Live and pitch your app to our audience of attendees, exclusive press and speakers in our App it Out contest. Brought to you in association with the awesome new Start-up Koding, you can also win an amazing trip to the Big Smoke – London!
What You Have To Do
1) Email us a video link demonstration of your web or mobile app (no longer than 60 seconds)
2) We will then post the video on our App It Out blog
3) Our readers will vote for their favourite pitch
4) The top 6 with the most votes (3 mobile and 3 web apps) will be invited to Future Insights Live to pitch their app
5) Our panel of esteemed judges (including the AppJudgment team) will give feedback and choose the winners live at the event
6) The prize – An awesome trip to London to attend a future Carsonified event of your choice, including flights and hotel!
So get creative, and send us your video links. We’ll start posting them next week until the closing date of April 10th.
Check out Future Insights Live to see who will be joining us and the amazing content you can enjoy!
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By Cat Clark | 13 March 2012 | Category: Events
This year, we’re offering four Future of Web Design London attendees an incredible opportunity – entry to the first ever FOWD Factor! Go head-to-head on the main stage with a 5-minute web design talk to win a place as a Rising Star speaker at FOWD NYC. The crowd will be voting for the speaker who wows them the most in that short space of time – and we’ll be flying the winner out to the Big Apple to deliver an extended talk this autumn.
The contest is open to everyone attending FOWD London. All you have to do is email Cat with your pitch for the fast and furious session you’d like to deliver. As ever, we’re looking for the talks that will be most interesting and valuable to our web designer crowd – whether you’re sharing short cuts, front-end tips, business advice or your thoughts on the future of our industry, let us know. We’ll select the final four and then FOWD attendees will decide the winner, live at the show itself.
Pitches can be submitted in writing, or if you’re feeling creative, feel free to make a video etc. The deadline is April 11th, and finalists will be notified shortly after the closing date. Good luck everyone!
(Thanks to the State Library of Queensland, Australia via Flickr / The Commons for the image used above!)
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By Lou Morgan | 02 March 2012 | Category: Events
We are super excited and happy to announce that App Judgement will be joining us on stage at Future Insights Live. Brought to you by Revision3, App Judgement is the popular daily online show and is the place to get your app reviews and previews.
The Revision3 team will be hosting an array of exciting activities including, The App Game Show whereby three conference attendees will be invited on stage to take part in a little battle of the minds/icebreaker. The intriguingly titled iOS App Infoporn and Apps That Matter, where they will be reviewing apps that are actually helping us become better people!
There will be lots of other little surprises along the way including some special guest appearances from our speakers and exclusive information from some of the industry’s leading companies. All wrapped with our brand new competition – App It Out which will give you the opportunity to join the team on stage and pitch your app, live! Details coming very soon….
Check out the Future Insights schedule and speaker page to see who is joining us at the show and pick up your pass today. As Think Vitamin readers, you can use promo code THINKVITAMIN for a 10% discount which could save you up to $180 per ticket!
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By Cat Clark | 01 March 2012 | Category: Events
We’re fed up of sitting around waiting for FOWD London to happen, so to help us pass the time until May rolls around, we’d love it if you’d join us for a Meet Up next week! Come and share a drink or two with other like-minded web designers, connect with old FOWD friends, or make some new ones before the show itself rolls around.
You don’t need to be a FOWD attendee to come along, everyone’s very welcome.
Date – Friday 9th March, 7.30pm – 10.00pm
Venue – The Red Lion (upstairs), Shoreditch
Prizes – We’re proposing a mini BarCamp-style skill swap during the meet up. To make things interesting, the person who shares the best web design tip or trick will win a seat in a FOWD London workshop of their choice.
Three runners up will get a copy of Zoe Gillenwater’s Stunning CSS3, and a super special web designer themed pack of Tattly tattoos.
Discount – Because we’ll all be the best of friends by the end of the evening, we’re giving everyone who pops along a secret FOWD London 15% promo code.
If you’d like to join us next week, drop Cat an email so we can keep an eye on numbers! Hope to see you there :)
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By Nick Pettit | 22 February 2012 | Category: Asides
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.
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