July 8, 2015 in Learn
How to Build an npm Package
What is npm? npm is a package manager for JavaScript. It manages dependencies for both front-end and back-end projects. If you’re a company wanting to distribute a way for developers to connect to your service or an open-source developer who…
July 6, 2015 in Learn
How to Create Static Pages in Rails
Have you ever wanted to create static pages in Rails? These are pages that don’t necessarily contain any dynamic info or pull from the database and don’t require an entire controller. While some pre-built gems allow this to be done…
July 6, 2015 in Learn
An Introduction to the Rails Command
If you’ve worked with a Rails application, you’ve used the rails command. In this post, we’re going to go in depth with the rails command and find out what it does. For the purposes of this post, placeholder text will…
July 1, 2015 in Learn
How to Choose a Programming Language
I’m going to tell you how to choose a programming language: don’t. Wait … what about all the high-paying tech jobs? Isn’t this the best time to be a programmer? Many people are curious about code. Unfortunately, choosing a programming language can…
June 30, 2015 in Learn
How to Use jQuery to Asynchronously Load an Image
Back in May I shared how to load images asynchronously with JavaScript. I had a lot of requests from people on how load images using jQuery. So here we go! Asynchronous Image Loading Instead of having images load like this:…
June 24, 2015 in Learn
New Collection Types in ECMAScript 6
ECMAScript 6 is out! I covered what ECMAScript is and the new and improved syntax in this post here. But the syntax is not the only change you’ll see in ECMAScript, there are new types too – the most useful…
June 17, 2015 in Learn
Get Started with ECMAScript 6
ECMAScript 6 or ES6 is the latest standardized version of JavaScript. The exciting thing is it’s been approved today by the standards body and that means broader browser support is coming. ECMAScript 6 has been in the works for some…
June 16, 2015 in Learn
The Treehouse Show | Episode 145: Justice, Carousels, Centering in CSS
It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 145 of The Treehouse Show, Nick (@nickrp) and Jason (@jseifer) talk about Justice, Carousels, and Centering in CSS. For a free month’s trial, Join Jason and Nick at…
June 8, 2015 in Learn
Getting Started with Ionic
What is Ionic? Ionic is a set of performance-focused, beautifully designed HTML, CSS and JavaScript components optimized for building mobile applications. Ionic is composed of Cordova, the open sourced part of the PhoneGap platform, Sass and AngularJS. It allows you…
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…