October 14, 2022 in Learn
Installing Homebrew on Mac
Installation Homebrew is package manager for Macs which makes installing lots of different software like Git, Ruby, and Node simpler. Homebrew lets you avoid possible security problems associated with using the sudo command to install software like Node. Prerequisites You should have…
October 14, 2022 in Learn
Installing MongoDB on Mac
What’s MongoDB? MongoDB is a document database which belongs to a family of databases called NoSQL – not only SQL. In MongoDB, records are documents which behave a lot like JSON objects in JavaScript. Values in documents can be looked…
October 14, 2022 in Learn
Installing Android Studio on Mac
Installation Android Studio is available at: https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
October 14, 2022 in Learn
Installing Jekyll on Mac
What is Jekyll? Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator powered by Ruby. A static site generator takes a set templates and raw text files, runs it through a converter and renderer, then generates a plain HTML website that’s ready to…
October 14, 2022 in Learn
Installing IntelliJ IDEA on Mac
What is a IntelliJ IDEA? IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment, by JetBrains. It attempts to integrate all of the development tools that you might need into one single place. There is a Community Edition that is…
October 14, 2022 in Learn
Installing Java SE Development Kit on Mac
What is a JDK? The Java SE Development Kit, or JDK, is an extended subset of tools that allow for developing applications for the Java programming language. The installation process is very straight forward: Navigate to the Java SE Downloads page…
August 21, 2018 in Learn
How to Install Sass on MacOS with Homebrew
Have you ever needed to replace the same color in 50 places throughout a gigantic CSS file? It sure would be nice if you could make that color a variable and change it in one place. Functions and mixins? Those…
August 10, 2016 in Learn
How to Install Rails 5 on a Mac
In setting up for the Treehouse Rails 5 Basics course, we’re also updating our installation help workshops to cover Rails 5. We figured we’d share those directions here, as a little nudge to those of you who still haven’t discovered…