June 2, 2015 in Learn
Why Ionic is Reigniting the Native vs HTML5 Debate
A Little Bit of History Back in 2010 the iPad was released and Josh Timonen and I wanted to build apps for it. Neither of us knew Objective-C and without spending too much time learning a new language we…
June 1, 2015 in Learn
Beginner’s Guide to PHP for WordPress – Part 1 of 3
WordPress allows us to do so much in terms of building websites without knowing any code. With themes and plugins and a powerful admin area there is a lot we can do without typing any HTML, CSS, JS or PHP….
May 26, 2015 in Learn
Regular Expressions in 10 Different Languages
You might’ve heard that the word “OK” is the most globally recognized phrase in the world. It’s found in almost every spoken language from Arabic to Zulu. In the programming world, we have something similar: Regular Expressions. Regular Expressions, or…
May 13, 2015 in Community
Win a 1-on-1 Session with Treehouse Teacher, Huston Hedinger!
Are you learning JavaScript at Treehouse? I’ve got some good news for you! Every month, I am going to randomly select two students that have completed one of my courses or workshops to work with for an hour-long one-on-one…
May 6, 2015 in Learn
Intro to Neat — A Semantic Sass Grid
Mobile devices came to conquer the planet, and they won. Well . . . mobile devices at least seem to dominate the way in which we access the Web. As a result of the mobile revolution, we no longer have…
May 5, 2015 in Community
Girls Coding Kosova
Treehouse teacher Ben Jakuben came across Girls Coding Kosova on Twitter recently, and discovered that they use Treehouse to help members learn to code. We wanted to learn more about their organization and mission, and had a chance to hear…
May 4, 2015 in Learn
Why TypeScript is Hot Now, and Looking Forward
It’s never been a better time to be a JavaScript developer! JavaScript is everywhere now – it’s on the front and back-end of a website, and many desktop text editors are powered by JavaScript. In fact you can build a…
February 5, 2015 in Learn
How to Create a Sticky Navigation
Many websites use a “sticky” feature in their main navigation menu. The menu scrolls with the page, then sticks to the top once it reaches the top of the viewport. There are lots of jQuery plugins we can use to…
February 4, 2015 in Learn
Learn the Types of Hooks in WordPress
Hooks in WordPress allow developers to easily tie their own code in with the WordPress core code base, themes, and plugins. In this article, we’ll discover what hooks are, go over the different types of hooks, and look at a few…
February 2, 2015 in Learn
How to Add a Navigation Drawer in Android
Android now includes a component that makes it very easy to add a navigation drawer to an app that the user can slide in from the side. I first remember seeing this in the Facebook app in iOS, and I…
January 30, 2015 in Community
Shaun Applied His New Web Skills to Helping Youths Realise Their Full Potential
Before joining Treehouse, Shuan dabbled in HTML and CSS but could never gain a comprehensive understanding of how to code. When an opportunity presented itself for him to combine his passion for helping young people realise their full potential with…
January 21, 2015 in Learn
How to Create a Simple CSS Dropdown Menu
Many dropdown menus we see on websites use JavaScript in some way, but it’s possible to build one entirely with HTML and CSS. In this short video tutorial, we’ll take advantage of helpful CSS selectors to build a simple dropdown…