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 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 8, 2014 in Learn
Install Node.js and NPM on a Mac: How-To Guide
If you’re looking to take your JavaScript coding to another level, Treehouse offers unlimited-access courses in JavaScript (and many other subjects) starting at $25/month. Try our program out with a free seven-day trial today. JavaScript is one of the most…
October 6, 2014 in Learn
Tips to Get Your Child Coding
Does your child read fluently? Can they distinguish between a paragraph, title, and author in a document or story? Can they type without tears? If you’ve answered yes to all of these questions, your son or daughter is ready to code. Here…
September 12, 2014 in Learn
Work On An Existing Rails App
Throughout the course of your Rails career, you’re bound to have to work on an existing Rails application. If you’re doing consulting, this can be a process you have to go through time and time again in order to get…
September 8, 2014 in Learn
Customize Ordered Lists with the ::before Pseudo- Element
Web browsers let you customize the look of most aspects of a page using CSS. But when rendering some page elements, web browsers are resistant to your styling efforts. For example, form elements like select menus, radio buttons and checkboxes…
September 4, 2014 in Learn
Smarter Sass Mixins with Null
With Sass mixins we’re able to pass a list of arguments to set the values of properties. For example, the following mixin uses four variables as arguments to define the display, padding and margin properties of an element. @mixin display ($disp, $padding, $l-margin, $r-margin)…
August 27, 2014 in Treehouse News
New Course: Advanced Sass
Now that you know the basics of Sass, it’s time to put these new skills to work in the best way possible. Learning the ‘best practices’ for writing Sass will gain you admiration among your peers. There are three sections…
July 31, 2014 in Learn
Modular Pseudo-Elements with Sass
When generating pseudo-elements with CSS, we usually need to define certain properties to display the elements. This often means repeating CSS declarations for content, display and position, the most common properties used for generating shapes with pseudo-elements. With Sass, we’re able to…
July 17, 2014 in Learn
Which Design Layout: Static, Liquid, Adaptive, or Responsive?
(Photo from Flickr user Will Scullin) When discussing a page layout, web designers will often use terms like fixed, static, liquid, adaptive, responsive, and a few others. If you’re a web designer, a web developer, or even a project stakeholder…
July 10, 2014 in Business Resources
Code Oregon – 4,000 Spots Already Taken
In just two weeks, four thousand people have signed up for Code Oregon, the partnership between Treehouse and Worksystems designed to get Oregonians skilled up to work in the tech industry. There are only 10,000 places available so spots are…
July 1, 2014 in Learn
Should You Use Bootstrap or Foundation?
(Photograph from Flickr user Uppy Chatterjee) I’ve been teaching web design in some capacity for about 5 years now, and lately one of the most frequently asked questions is, “Should I use Bootstrap or Foundation?” Bootstrap (currently at v3.2) and Foundation (currently…