September 12, 2016 in Community
Home Depot Retail to Freelance Web Developer: an Interview with Techdegree Student Esteban Valdez
Esteban had always thought you needed a college degree to have a career in the tech industry. It wasn’t till he became friends with a self-taught web developer that he realized there were other means of learning to code and successfully launching a…
July 20, 2016 in Community
Empowered by Code: an Interview with Lee Crockford
As an advocate for social change, mental health, the arts and education, freelancer and non-profit organizer Lee Crockford had experience with multitasking taking on new challenges. He also had ideas he wanted to take online but didn’t have the financial…
April 11, 2016 in Community
Kyle’s Story: Building a Valuable Online Resource For My High School
14-year-old Kyle was drawn to the endless opportunities to create and share on the web. In the 8th-grade he began to dive into coding and built a basic website, Study Central for his fellow students to share study guides….
October 29, 2015 in Learn
Mindset: Developer vs Designer
To understand the nuances of what it means to be a developer or a designer let’s take a walk down memory lane and end with where we’re at today. A Little Bit of History When I started dabbling with HTML…
October 14, 2015 in Community
With Treehouse, Victor Discovered a Passion for Front End Development and Landed a Web Dev Position
Victor Ollervidez discovered a passion for the creativity of coding in middle school. But it wasn’t until college when Victor began his degree in multimedia that he was able to focus on learning to code and aspiring to work on…
May 27, 2015 in Learn
Creating Static Pages in Ruby on Rails
Roll Your Own Static Pages in a Rails App Have you ever wanted to create static pages in a Rails application? These are pages which don’t necessarily contain any dynamic info or pull from the database, and don’t require an…
May 31, 2013 in Learn
Learning to Program Requires an Idea
One thing I’m constantly asked by aspiring programmers is: What incentive do you need when you want to learn to program? A lot of them have started and stopped. They’ve never been able string together enough time to make real…
May 25, 2013 in Learn
Should You Learn to Program?
A lot of people ask me if they should learn to program. They’ve seen that learning to program in 2012 allowed me to launch my new startup, Uncover, just a year later. Mainly I’ve heard from aspiring entrepreneurs who have…
April 4, 2013 in Learn
Most Helpful Webapps & Resources for Building Modern Websites
There is a large number of online resources for developers looking to make better websites. These are all free tools for anybody to use, and they provide an exceptional push forward in quality. Designers have been striving towards a better…
April 2, 2013 in Learn
Web Typography, CSS Patterns and Simple Icons | Treehouse Show Ep 33
In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about Web Typography, CSS Patterns and Simple Icons. Here are the links for the week: Typeplate » A typographic starter kit encouraging great type on…
March 26, 2013 in Learn
SVGs, Dropdowns, and HTML5 Form Elements | Treehouse Show Ep 32
In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about SVGs, Dropdowns, and HTML5 Form Elements. Here are the links for the week: SPOILER ALERT! http://joshbuddy.github.com/spoiler-alert/ svg.js – A lightweight JavaScript library for manipulating…
December 13, 2012 in Learn
Stylish Custom User Settings Dropdown Menu with CSS
You can find a lot of different menu styles on the web today. Similarly designers and developers are often more than happy to share their techniques with the world. And through these tutorials new designers can learn about trends and…