November 3, 2014 in Career Advice
What Employers Are Looking for in a Junior Android Dev
We recently wrote a post that discussed what employers are looking for a in Jnr Ruby Dev. It was very popular so we thought we would tackle a different discipline this time – Android development. It is a wonderful time…
October 31, 2014 in Community
Miriam Went From Architect to Full-time Front-end Developer
It was love at first sight for Miriam when she first experimented with coding in the architecture office where she worked. Seeing an opportunity to apply her design skills and perspective in a new way, Miriam continued to embrace her…
October 28, 2014 in Learn
What are Enums and Structs in Swift?
If you know C or Objective-C then you might be familiar with Enums and Structs. However, if you don’t know either of those languages then you are probably wondering what is their purpose and why you should use them. In…
October 27, 2014 in Learn
Operator Overloading in Python
Operator Overloading in Python Python is an interesting language. It’s meant to be very explicit and easy to work with. But what happens when how you want or need to work with Python isn’t just what the native types expose?…
October 23, 2014 in Treehouse News
New Course: Android Data Persistence
Being able to save or persist data within our apps is an important fundamental skill. It enables our users to save their work, remember their preferences, store all types of files for reuse, and more. These features are evident to…
October 23, 2014 in Community
Behind the Scenes of the New Treehouse Orlando Set
If you’ve been a Treehouse student since the very beginning, you might remember the look of our earliest videos. The original set was… well, we didn’t really have one. The actual first Treehouse set, built at our offices in Orlando, Florida in…
October 22, 2014 in Learn
Real-Time 3D on the Web
When you watch an animated Pixar movie, the 3D graphics are extremely detailed and realistic because they’re “pre-rendered”. Each frame may have taken many hours or days for the computer to render and then later you watch those rendered frames in…
October 20, 2014 in Career Advice
What Employers Are Looking For in a Junior Rails Developer
Part of my job as the Ruby teacher for Treehouse is to stay on top of what employers are looking for when hiring people to fill Ruby and Rails positions. The landscape changes often but below are some of the trends…
October 15, 2014 in Community
We Are Family – The Whole Team!
Here we are – the Treehouse team. This photo was taken at our recent Lake Tahoe company meet-up. There are 75 of us (give or take a few stragglers). Most of the familiar faces are in there, Nick, Guil, Andrew, Pasan,…
October 13, 2014 in Learn
Cutting-Edge CSS Features You Can Use Today
The last wave of new CSS3 features introduced in-browser design features like border-radius, gradients, multiple backgrounds, and box-shadow. CSS continues to evolve and today’s native features are becoming closer to tools we’d normally use in our favorite graphics editor. In…
October 10, 2014 in Community
After Just 6 Months Learning Nick is a full-time Web Developer
23 year old Nick Bryan’s interest in the web came from a desire to learn how something we use everyday, and often take for granted, is both designed and implemented. When Nick then found himself, with a background and degree…
October 9, 2014 in Learn
Making a Network Request in Swift
To make a network request in Swift (read HTTP request), there are a couple of different ways of doing it – NSURL, NSURLRequest and NSURLSession. Since iOS 7, NSURLSession has been the preferred way of carrying out networking tasks let’s…