April 25, 2016 in Business Resources
How to Identify a Great Junior Hire For Your Dev Team
Are you looking to hire a junior developer this year? Great idea! Creating a talent pipeline now that helps you fill your development team later with skilled workers who know your business is the best way to prepare for changes…
April 22, 2016 in Learn
How to Design a Useful Wireframe
The backbone of a structured digital project, wireframing is one of the earliest and most important design activities. Wireframes allow the team to answer crucial questions about layouts, navigation, visual hierarchy, information architecture, and content priority from the start. In…
March 2, 2016 in Learn
The Programmer’s Journey: Ends, Means and the Stuff In-Between(s)
In my role as an iOS Teacher at Treehouse I am surrounded, virtually speaking, by students. Many of these students are trying to switch careers, often attempting to tackle their first programming language in pursuit of a big change. Some…
January 4, 2016 in Community
6 Treehouse Students Who Successfully Changed Careers
This is the perfect time of year to consider your career path (or lack thereof) and course correct. In some cases, a course correction may not be enough, and instead, it might make more sense to learn an entirely new skill…
November 12, 2015 in Learn
Ready. Set. Focus.
Gotcha! Instead of building an app or website with us on Treehouse, you’re reading this blog post. You’re not focused. I get it. This happens to me all the time. I try to maintain focus on something, but end up…
November 4, 2015 in Learn
The Rundown: Bootstrap vs. Google MDL vs. Foundation
Front end frameworks help simplify our design process in powerful ways. Whether you’re building a dynamic website or web application, leveraging the components in a strong front end framework can make the difference between weeks and months of work. Essentially,…
November 4, 2015 in Community
Meet Jason, Mechanical Engineering Graduate Turned Web Developer
Just before graduating from university with a mechanical engineering degree, Jason Morton came up with a business idea, but it needed a website. After meeting with several web designers and developers, Jason decided that instead of hiring someone to create the website…
November 3, 2015 in Learn
How to Make a Loading Screen in Unity
At some point or another, every game developer has to create a loading screen. Often, you’ll see a loading screen at the start of a game, or when entering a new area of the game. A loading bar or a spinning…
September 24, 2015 in Learn
3 Steps to Better UI Wireframes
Creating sketches of a user interface, called wireframes, is often the first step in the design phase of a software or web project. Wireframing your software or website project may seem simple at first because of how easy they are…
June 25, 2015 in Learn
How to Create a Stunning Site Hero Image in 5 Minutes or Less
Hero images are everywhere these days. You’ve probably seen them front and center in websites for apps, magazines, stores and pretty much every other product category. And with good reason: these large background images are often successful at capturing a…
April 15, 2015 in Community
Joe Learned to Code & Transitioned into a Career He’s Passionate About
Despite being an economics graduate with a career as a loan analyst, Joe decided it was time for a career change. After a gratifying experience dabbling in basic UX and product design side projects, combined with a lifelong interest in…
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…