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September 22, 2011 in Learn
It’s no secret that vim is an extremely powerful text editor. It is almost infinitely configurable, but that comes at the cost of a very steep learning curve. Vim (and of course Emacs as well) can allow you to manipulate…
September 20, 2011 in Learn
We are excited to announce Carsonified’s second book called ‘Art and the Web: Value, Texture, & Color’ written by Nick Pettit. This book is part of a larger series that Nick is writing about the elements and principles of art, as…
September 20, 2011 in Learn
For every beautiful logo, there’s always plenty more nice designs that you don’t always get to see. Before we settled on the new Treehouse logo, we went through several versions. Here are just a few of those iterations from our…
August 11, 2011 in Learn
We’re delighted to announce that our final FOWD NYC workshop speaker will be the hugely talented Aaron Gustafson. As well as heading up Easy! Designs, Aaron is Group Manager of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) where he has spearheaded Web…
August 9, 2011 in Learn
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned web professional, creating responsive designs can be confusing at first, mostly because of the radical change in thinking that’s required. As time goes on, responsive web design is drifting away from the pool…
July 28, 2011 in Learn
Just a few minutes ago Google announced Page Speed Service. It’s a service that’s super simple to set up – web app developers to point their app’s DNS at Google. In return, Google handles rewriting web pages for performance and…
July 26, 2011 in Learn
Feeds are streams of content that people can use to share pieces of information across websites. PHP5’s simpleXML functions dramatically simplify the process of interpreting the feeds into something useful for your web pages.
July 13, 2011 in Learn
The HTML5 canvas can be used to create a lot of cool things, like games, video effects, graphs and more. It can also be used to produce some slightly less complex effects, like manipulating images on the page. In this…
July 7, 2011 in Learn
When you’re developing with Ruby, it’s pretty inevitable that at some point you come across an HTTP API that doesn’t have a gem available. While writing Hopefully Sunny I ran into just that situation with World Weather Online’s weather API….
June 21, 2011 in Learn
Developing a native iOS app can be pretty daunting. There’s the extensive sdk with various APIs and then you have to learn a completely new language known as Objective-C. Most developers fear a new language because of all the nuances…
June 21, 2011 in Learn
The Future of Web Apps Vegas is 5 days away and the Carsonified events team are super excited to be jetting over the ocean from the UK to put on an awesome show! We have an amazing lineup already confirmed…
June 14, 2011 in Learn
Building dynamic web pages using JavaScript can be a complex task. Fortunately, frameworks like jQuery, MooTools, and others make it much easier to interact with the browser. However DOM frameworks only solve part of the problem.
When building an application that has a lot of data that can be updated, and any piece of information could be represented in several places on the page, it becomes a pain to try to make sure the interface accurately represents the data at any point in time.