September 25, 2012 in Learn
Using inline-block to Display a Product Grid View
I have been working on a website that displays products in a grid view, with each product containing a title, an image and some in a grid view. To achieve this layout, I used an unordered list with the CSS…
February 14, 2012 in Learn
Command Line Basics
After part one of the git for designers post, Kim Røen suggested in the comments doing a post with some instructions on using the command line. This is that post. We’re going to be focusing on the Mac side of…
October 19, 2011 in Learn
5 helpful UIKit features in the iOS 5 SDK
There are so many new features in the iOS 5 SDK that it is sometimes hard to keep up. This article covers some of the most helpful additions to the UIKit framework that will prove very useful for your app.
October 19, 2011 in Learn
5 helpful UIKit features in the iOS 5 SDK
There are so many new features in the iOS 5 SDK that it is sometimes hard to keep up. This article covers some of the most helpful additions to the UIKit framework that will prove very useful for your app.
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.
October 5, 2011 in Learn
iOS Design Patterns: Target-action (Part 1)
A design pattern is defined as a solution template to a recurring problem. This is a multi-part series of posts where we’ll look at the fundamental design patterns used within the iOS framework. Anyone getting started with iOS development would…
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.
September 27, 2011 in Learn
An introduction to Objective-C
If you are serious about becoming an iOS developer then it is imperative that you learn Objective-C which is an extension of the C language. If you already have experience with an object-oriented language then learning Objective-C should be quite…
September 22, 2011 in Learn
Take on Vim with Janus
It’s no secret that vim is an extremely powerful text editor. It is almost infinitely configurable, but that comes at the cost of a very steep learning curve. Vim (and of course Emacs as well) can allow you to manipulate…
August 9, 2011 in Learn
Beginner’s Guide to Responsive Web Design
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned web professional, creating responsive designs can be confusing at first, mostly because of the radical change in thinking that’s required. As time goes on, responsive web design is drifting away from the pool…
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 13, 2011 in Learn
Create Vector Masks using the HTML5 Canvas
The HTML5 canvas can be used to create a lot of cool things, like games, video effects, graphs and more. It can also be used to produce some slightly less complex effects, like manipulating images on the page. In this…