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My new sponsor, Treehouse, is a web-based learning site that uses high quality video tutorials to teach you a new programming language, a new business strategy, and even place you in a job after you've graduated. Treehouse's learning path is great because they fill the gap between a year or two in school (which seasoned developers of other languages don't need) and venturing in the jungle of Google-search-to-find-a-hopefully-good-written-tutorial. For a developer like myself, Treehouse is the best way to quickly learn the dev environment, basic tips to coding in said language, and how to become a pro in a given language, like iOS development (which I don't know). I'll let Treehouse describe themselves:
As part of their sponsorship of this blog, Treehouse is offering a month of learning for free. Do yourself a favor and make the best of this offer. Their library current includes web development (CSS, JavaScript, HTML5, PhotoShop), server side development (PHP, Ruby on Rails), mobile development (iOS, Android), and more. Go get started!
![Vibration API]()
Many of the new APIs provided to us by browser vendors are more targeted toward the mobile user than the desktop user. One of those simple APIs the Vibration API. The Vibration API allows developers to direct the device, using JavaScript, to vibrate in...
![Regular Expressions for the Rest of Us]()
Sooner or later you'll run across a regular expression. With their cryptic syntax, confusing documentation and massive learning curve, most developers settle for copying and pasting them from StackOverflow and hoping they work. But what if you could decode regular expressions and harness their power? In...
![Duplicate the jQuery Homepage Tooltips Using MooTools]()
The jQuery homepage has a pretty suave tooltip-like effect as seen below:
Here's how to accomplish this same effect using MooTools.
The XHTML
The above XHTML was taken directly from the jQuery homepage -- no changes.
The CSS
The above CSS has been slightly modified to match the CSS rules already...
![HTML5 Placeholder Styling with CSS]()
Last week I showed you how you could style selected text with CSS. I've searched for more interesting CSS style properties and found another: INPUT placeholder styling. Let me show you how to style placeholder text within INPUTelements with some unique CSS code.
The CSS
Firefox...
I always searched for a good structured learning website. Thanks, I will try this one.
Found it here and i like it for now, its great, they have begginer stuff for Rails and more..
Hi David,
I wanted to give it a try for ios development but I won’t have too much time before two months :(
Any idea how long this offer will be available?
Thanks!
The end of April at minimum, but probably longer ;)
Treehouse are awesome, reallly good fun way to learn