Articles by Team Treehouse from July 2015

Earlier this year I announced how I am selecting students who have taken my courses to work with one-on-one. Well, this month I had the pleasure of meeting with Jack Blackenship. We covered some reall...

Nicole worked in customer service, but in her free time enjoyed personal nerddom, playing around with consumer technology and building things. Inspired by these interests, Nicole decided to register f...

I hate to be the one to tell you this: you arent perfect. Youre going to make a lot of mistakes. We all do. There are many different types of errors, but most the most common ones we encounter fall &#...

Django Girls Installathon at Treehouse headquarters in Portland, Ore., July 17, 2015. (Kenneth Love) I recently releasedTreehouse’sfirst Django course.So, Ithought it might be a good idea to tal...

Django Girls Installathon at Treehouse headquarters in Portland, Ore., July 17, 2015. (Kenneth Love) I recently releasedTreehouse’sfirst Django course.So, Ithought it might be a good idea to tal...

Every week, new content is published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here is a short list of what was added the week of July 20, 2015. COURSE Swift Delegates–Pasan Premaratne Delegation is a d...

With the release of the first iPhone, Alex instantly discovered a passion for touch interface and within a year him and his brother hired a team and started up a web and mobile development studio. The...

CSS recently introduced a scroll snap points feature that gives users a fluid and precise scrolling experience for touch and input devices. There are plenty of jQuery plugins available that create scr...

In episode 150, the last episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick (@nickrp) and Jason (@jseifer) talk about CSS shapes, JavaScript, and font combinations. For a free month’s trial, Join Jason and Nic...

Every week, new content is published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here is a short list of what was added the week of July 13, 2015. COURSE Genesis Theme Development– Jesse Petersen Genesis ...

“So I’m allowed to cheat?” Shocked and confused, this is what my wife, Lauren, asked me late last year. Earlier that day she told me she’d like to code. I thought this would be...

After graduating from university, Dawid took a full-time job as a junior Java developer at one of the worlds largest rail equipment manufacturers. However, he soon realized that the position wasnt a g...

In 2014, Steph was working as an animal presenter. She had worked through a series of part-time positions over the years but was unsure of what she wanted to pursue as a career. Although she was passi...

It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 149 of The Treehouse Show, Nick (@nickrp) and Jason (@jseifer) talk about Performance Tools, Material Design, and Sliders. Fo...

Have you ever wanted a way to update all file download links on your site to have the behavior of opening a new browser window? This is a better user flow than having the user follow the link and then...

Every week, new content is published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here is a short list of what was added the week of July 6, 2015. COURSE Animating SVG with CSS–Guil Hernandez SVG (Scalable...

The Treehouse Show is coming to an end. Episode 149 will be available tomorrow, and the final episode will be available on Tuesday, July 21st, 2015. Here’s an announcement video that announces t...

According to the College Board, the average budget for a student at a four-year public university is $23,410 per year. Thats a total budget of $93,640 over four years (with no consideration for annual...

Joe wanted to pursue his dream of being a web developer. So while working part-time in a supermarket, he spent his free time teaching himself to code from scratch. Joe tried a variety of online learni...

April was working in web development and in need of a learning resource to help keep her skills up-to-date when she stumbled upon Treehouse. Soon April found herself not only retaining more knowledge ...

What is npm? npm is a package manager for JavaScript. It manages dependencies for both front-end and back-end projects. If you’re a company wanting to distribute a way for developers to connect ...

It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 148 of The Treehouse Show, Nick (@nickrp) and Jason (@jseifer) talk about Web Design Trends, Sharing Buttons, and Flexbox Tec...

Every week, new content is published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here is a short list of what was added the week of June 29, 2015. COURSE Enhance a Weather App With Table Views –Pasan Prem...

An Introduction to the Rails Command If you’ve worked with a Rails application, you’ve used the rails command. In this post, we’re going to go in depth with the rails command and fin...

Having been a web enthusiast since the 90s, when Justin found his career as a teacher had peaked, the web industry felt like a natural career switch. Initially, Justin decided on the traditional learn...

Through briefly dabbling with coding to build a simple website to showcase his photography, Tim discovered an interest for web development. It wasnt till a few years later when Tim faced the need for ...

How you should choose a programming language: dont.Wait . . . what about the high paying tech jobs and flexible work schedules out there? Isnt this the best time to learn how to code?It is, and you sh...

It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 147 of The Treehouse Show, Nick (@nickrp) and Jason (@jseifer) talk about web features, form design and color pickers. For a ...

Back in May I shared how to load images asynchronously with JavaScript. I had a lot of requests from people on how to do it in jQuery. So here we go! Asynchronous Image Loading Instead of having image...