Updated on November 16, 2022 in Learn
All About Android AsyncTasks
Let’s say you need to download a few images when you click a button. What would be the best way to do it? Well, since you wouldn’t want to interrupt the main/UI thread (and run the risk of showing your…
Updated on September 21, 2017 in Learn
Accelerated Learning to Code
As soon as we heard author and entrepreneur, Tim Ferriss at SXSW Interactive describing the benefits of Accelerated Learning, we were immediately hooked on the model. We were also eager to share it as a great approach to speeding up…
Updated on August 23, 2017 in Community
Taking My Career to the Next Level: How I Became a Developer
When he was younger, Sam Glister was fascinated with the web but never had the opportunity in school to learn how it worked and had never considered it as a career path. After graduation, Sam began a career as a…
April 10, 2017 in Learn
Ruby on Rails: Configuration over Convention
What’s that you say? We have it backwards? Ruby on Rails is supposed to favor “convention over configuration”? Well, we’re going to break that rule today… When I was first learning Rails years ago, I thought that the model, view,…
Updated on April 25, 2017 in Treehouse News
Learn to Build an Alexa Skill with Treehouse
Treehouse has teamed up with Amazon to teach developers and non-developers to build Alexa skills. The course, Build an Alexa Skill, has been released today! What is Alexa? Alexa is a voice service from Amazon that powers devices like the…
Updated on October 22, 2018 in Career Advice
Want to Attend a Conference? How to Make It Work for You.
You have heard a lot of great things about attending a conference, and how it can boost your career, so you decide to give it a try. But people face the same kind of roadblocks in attending conferences as they…
Updated on May 25, 2017 in Learn
Scheduling Work with the JobScheduler
Android Lollipop was a huge milestone for Android. It introduced us to Android Wear, gave us a do-not-disturb feature, and unleashed material design upon the world. Not only that, it also gave us Project Volta, a set of changes aimed…
Updated on May 25, 2017 in Learn
An Introduction to React Native
React is a framework created by Facebook for data driven web interfaces. React provides a component driven architecture which uses a declarative syntax and is easily extensible. So what is the difference between React and React Native? React was originally…
Updated on March 6, 2017 in Treehouse News
Treehouse Partners with Microsoft for the Release of Visual Studio 2017
On March 7th and 8th, Microsoft will host a special online event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Visual Studio and the release of Visual Studio 2017. Day one (3/7) will feature keynotes from Julia Liuson, Brian Harry, Miguel de…
Updated on August 1, 2018 in Learn
VR Performance Guidelines for New Unity Projects
VR performance is the bedrock of a great room-scale VR experience. Headsets like HTC Vive and Oculus Rift both run at a 90Hz refresh rate (in their current incarnations), meaning that the framerate of your Unity project needs to stay…
Updated on May 25, 2017 in Learn
Scheduling Time-Sensitive Tasks in Android with the AlarmManager
In Android, the AlarmManager lets us schedule work to happen at a specific time. If your app has work to do and you’d like it to do that work even when the app isn’t running, then the AlarmManager might be…
January 26, 2017 in Learn
Evaluating a Package for Your Project: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This article is specifically for people who are evaluating packages for their project. I will occasionally mention PHP specific technologies, but most of what is cover here should apply to any language you use. If you’d like to learn more…