Aaron Draplin is a graphic designer and founder of the Draplin Design Company. He’s done work for everyone from his friend’s hot dog company to President Obama himself. He’s also a speaker and co-creator of Field Notes, a popular notebook …Continue reading
The process to understand API development is generally complicated but should become easier with practice. Social networks like Twitter and YouTube offer XML/RSS/JSON feeds without the requirement of an API key. However, other smaller networking websites like Instagram and Etsy …Continue reading
A vanity URL is a search engine optimized (SEO) URL. Instead of having a meaningless URL like http://storeofthefuture.com/products/2015 wouldn’t http://storeofthefuture.com/products/hoverboard be better and more meaningful? It’s fairly straightforward to make URLs nicer in Rails. I’ll walk you through the process. …Continue reading
In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about iTunes Scrolling and Mobile Shelving. Here are the links for the week: Quick ‘n dirty iTunes 11 style scroller – CodePen http://codepen.io/vaskemaskine/pen/DrdJE Sly http://darsa.in/sly/ …Continue reading
When I started learning to program back in February 2012 in order to build Uncover, I simply wanted to be able to see my ideas through to a solid prototype that customers could use. Nothing else mattered. I’d watch tutorials, …Continue reading
Ben Callahan is the CEO of Sparkbox, a writer, a designer, and a speaker on the subject of Responsive Web Design. Ben was nice enough to sit down with Allison for an extensive interview on Responsive Web Design for the …Continue reading
The new Offscreen Magazine has launched and it features none other than our very own Ryan Carson. It’s no secret that Offscreen is one of my favorite magazines for its integrity, in-depth interviews with the internet’s brightest, great photography, amazing …Continue reading
Google sent a love letter to developers yesterday by way of a three and a half hour keynote presentation at Google I/O 2013. Take a minute and watch this opening video from the keynote and tell me if you don’t …Continue reading
What’s an SVG, and why do I have to use it? SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, are very small in file size and are great for retina displays. Vector graphics have an advantage over pixel formats like .gif or .jpg …Continue reading
Mat Helme is an amazing illustrator and the teacher behind the new Illustrator Foundations course on Treehouse. He’s always been a hard working designer, but it was a chance design contest that lead Mat to joining Treehouse, then creating the …Continue reading
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