Articles by Team Treehouse from May 2015

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 da...

Mark was a technician at an Apple retail store with a fascination for the creative and technical aspects of computer related industries. Looking for a career change, Mark aspired to work somewhere he ...

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 wo...

In this episode, Nick and Jason talk about Vendor Prefixes, Media Queries and JavaScript. Watch this week’s episode for free now, and tune in every Tuesday for the latest in web design and web d...

One of the more powerful features introduced in Swift was generic programming, or generics for short. Generic code allows you to write flexible, reusable functions and types while still maintaining th...

Kavitha was a stay at home mother of three when she decided to rejoin the workforce. Although shed had a prior career as a finance analyst, Kavitha decided it was time to embark on a career that align...

There may come a time where you want to download an image in the background instead of seeing it load like this… …have it load like this: Overview Maybe you’ve got an image gallery w...

In this episode, Nick and Jason talk about TinySort, Push Notifications, and Responsive Tables. Watch this week’s episode for free now, and tune in every Tuesday for the latest in web design and...

After years of envying friends working in the web industry, Lisa decided it was time to combine her passion for technology with a career change. Even with over 10 years of experience with HTML, Lisa f...

A few weeks ago, I watched an episode of Numberphile about the Monty Hall problem. This happens to be one of my favorite little “that-doesnt-seem-right” statistics things, and I thought it...

Anthony was an account manager in the tech space when he decided it was time to gain an in-depth understanding of the engines that made it all work, and learn the valuable skills that built and manage...

  Are you learning JavaScript at Treehouse? I’ve got some good news for you! Every month, I am going to randomly select two students that have completed one of my courses or workshops to wo...

Another Tuesday, another Treehouse Show! In this episode, Nick Pettit and Jason Seifer talk about Gallery Plugins, Admin UI, and Font Sizing. Watch this week’s episode for free now, and tune in ...

TypeScript is JavaScript with optional typing. TypeScript is a compiled language, it’s not interpreted at run-time. The TypeScript compiler takes TypeScript files (.ts) and compiles them in to J...

Curious about Java? Listen to what our Java teacher, Craig Dennis, has to say! What are your favorite and least favorite things about Java? Least: Java is verbose. It is overwhelming for a beginner an...

Treehouse is like my secret weapon It has so many courses on diverse topics that I can rely on it for almost any new challenge. One important thing to keep in mind about becoming a programmer is that ...

Mobile devices came to conquer the planet, and they won. Well . . . mobile devices at least seem to dominate the way in which we access the Web. As a result of the mobile revolution, we no longer have...

It’s time for our weekly installment of the Treehouse Show! This episode, Nick Pettit and Jason Seifer talk about jQuery Boilerplate, Sass, and Maps. Watch this week’s episode for free now...

Treehouse teacher Ben Jakuben came across Girls Coding Kosova on Twitter recently, and discovered that they use Treehouse to help members learn to code. We wanted to learn more about their organizatio...

It’s never been a better time to be a JavaScript developer! JavaScript is everywhere now – it’s on the front and back-end of a website, and many desktop text editors are powered by J...

Engineers are often chastised for valuing function over form. For example, if a button’s purpose is to show something new on the screen, why would someonewant to spend timemaking the new item an...