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Vitamin: Great Application Design Comes Before the Pixels
A couple weeks back I wrote an article titled 5 Reasons Sketching Wireframes in Groups is So Important. I explained the importance of wireframing on paper and why working in groups is so crucial to your app’s success. In this article I would like t...
Dateline: 2013-05-25 7:31am -07:00T (1319 words)
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Vitamin: Keeping Your Time in Check
Time is our most valuable resource. We’re losing it all of the time and they’re not making any more of it. It’s sobering to think every moment that passes, is a moment we’ll never get again.
I have to remind myself that life is short. Anything tha...
Dateline: 2013-05-24 10:16am -07:00T (683 words)
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Vitamin: How to Write a Module in JavaScript – Quick Tip
In this Treehouse Quick Tip, teacher Jim Hoskins will show you how to write a simple JavaScript module. Modules are useful in writing JavaScript, because they allow us to write code that is less likely to interfere with other code on our page.
It allows ...
Dateline: 2013-05-23 7:31am -07:00T (87 words)
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Vitamin: Tall Tales From A Large Man – Interview with Aaron Draplin
Aaron Draplin is a graphic designer and founder of the Draplin Design Company. He’s done work for everyone from his friend’s hot dog company to President Obama himself. He’s also a speaker and co-creator of Field Notes, a popular noteboo...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 1:16pm -07:00T (99 words)
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Vitamin: Developing over the YouTube API with JSON
The process to understand API development is generally complicated but should become easier with practice. Social networks like Twitter and YouTube offer XML/RSS/JSON feeds without the requirement of an API key. However, other smaller networking websites ...
Dateline: 2013-05-22 7:01am -07:00T (1403 words)
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Vitamin: Creating Vanity URLs in Rails
A vanity URL is a search engine optimized (SEO) URL. Instead of having a meaningless URL like http://storeofthefuture.com/products/2015 wouldn’t http://storeofthefuture.com/products/hoverboard be better and more meaningful?
It’s fairly straigh...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 11:01am -07:00T (816 words)
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Vitamin: iTunes Scrolling and Mobile Shelving – Treehouse Show Ep 40
In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about iTunes Scrolling and Mobile Shelving.
Here are the links for the week:
Quick ‘n dirty iTunes 11 style scroller – CodePen
http://codepen.io/vas...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 7:16am -07:00T (74 words)
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Vitamin: How Learning to Program Got Me A Technical Co-Founder
When I started learning to program back in February 2012 in order to build Uncover, I simply wanted to be able to see my ideas through to a solid prototype that customers could use. Nothing else mattered. I’d watch tutorials, read books, practice exerci...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 6:46am -07:00T (455 words)
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Vitamin: Sharing What You Know – Interview with Ben Callahan
Ben Callahan is the CEO of Sparkbox, a writer, a designer, and a speaker on the subject of Responsive Web Design. Ben was nice enough to sit down with Allison for an extensive interview on Responsive Web Design for the Gold Members of Treehouse. Lucky for...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 1:16pm -07:00T (79 words)
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Vitamin: Giveaway: New Offscreen Mag Featuring Ryan Carson
The new Offscreen Magazine has launched and it features none other than our very own Ryan Carson. It’s no secret that Offscreen is one of my favorite magazines for its integrity, in-depth interviews with the internet’s brightest, great photogr...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:01am -07:00T (388 words)
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Vitamin: Why Google Loves Developers
Google sent a love letter to developers yesterday by way of a three and a half hour keynote presentation at Google I/O 2013. Take a minute and watch this opening video from the keynote and tell me if you don’t feel inspired as a developer, or as a u...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 2:46pm -07:00T (1638 words)
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Vitamin: Quick Tip: Saving SVG Files in Adobe Illustrator
What’s an SVG, and why do I have to use it? SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, are very small in file size and are great for retina displays. Vector graphics have an advantage over pixel formats like .gif or .jpg as they don’t deal with resolut...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 7:16am -07:00T (101 words)
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Vitamin: Teacher Spotlight: Mat Helme
Mat Helme is an amazing illustrator and the teacher behind the new Illustrator Foundations course on Treehouse. He’s always been a hard working designer, but it was a chance design contest that lead Mat to joining Treehouse, then creating the great ...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 7:16pm -07:00T (86 words)
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Vitamin: Finding Success in the Tech Industry | Interview with Carl Smith
Carl Smith, founder of nGen Works sits down with Treehouse’s Dan Gorgone to discuss how to succeed in your company, on your own, and in today’s tech industry. We sat down with Carl to talk about passion, doing things that you love, impacting o...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 8:16am -07:00T (79 words)
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Vitamin: Learn What’s New With Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud
Every year Adobe puts on an event called MAX. At the event Adobe unveils all their latest and greatest software feature upgrades and products. This year they announced that all there past software applications like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, etc&helli...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 1:31pm -07:00T (1356 words)
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