February 13, 2012 in Learn
Detect What A Mobile App Is Sending To Its Servers
Recently there has been a lot of chatter about mobile apps uploading your entire address book to their servers. The app makers claim that their intentions are noble, yet they have no right to the data unless you give consent….
October 17, 2011 in Community
A Treehouse Developer Interview with Alan
Treehouse is our major re-imagining of our video tutorial service, Think Vitamin Membership. I caught up with Alan, our developer, and asked him a few questions about coding the Treehouse app.
September 27, 2011 in Learn
Organize Your Code with RequireJS
Writing web applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS can become overwhelming quickly. Between managing UI, data, interactions, and network requests, application code can become a real mess, and this isn’t helped by the way the browser loads JavaScript code.
August 11, 2011 in Learn
Final FOWD NYC Workshop Speaker Announced!
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…
July 28, 2011 in Learn
Page Speed Service
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
How to parse XML with PHP5
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 7, 2011 in Learn
It's Time To HTTParty!
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 14, 2011 in Learn
Build Dynamic Pages with Knockout.js
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.
May 23, 2011 in Learn
Run Linux in your browser
I came across this on Hacker News and it blew my mind. Fabrice Bellard just created a PC emulator that boots Linux, written in JavaScript. It even works on my iPad. From the technical notes … The PC emulator is…
March 3, 2011 in Learn
10 Must Have Ruby Gems
One of the most beautiful things about Ruby development is the ease of adding functionality through packaged libraries called gems. With the power of Bundler, you can quickly add and manage gems in few lines of code. With the recent…
February 7, 2011 in Learn
Tips on Learning JavaScript
In his seminal article Style Versus Design Jeffrey Zeldman wrote The web used to look like a phone book . What he should have written is: The web used to look like a phone book sitting in a tacky 70s…
February 17, 2010 in Learn
5 Good Reasons Why Designers Should Code
Earlier today Elliot Jay Stocks commented on Twitter I’m shocked that in 2010 I’m still coming across ‘web designers’ who can’t code their own designs. His comment created a great little debate on Twitter. Personally, I agree with Elliot. I…