The real value of events you attend is in the people you meet and connections you make. In this Treehouse Quick Tip, author and blogger C.C. Chapman shares his strategies for successful networking and standing out from the crowd.
Found a photograph online that you'd like to use on your site, but not sure where it came from or who took it? Or are you a photographer who wants to know where your work is being posted? In this Treehouse Quick Tip, we'll learn how to do a reverse image search using Google Images and TinEye.
In version control, best practice is to commit your work in discrete chunks. Unfortunately, sometimes that's easier said than done when real life gets in the way. In this Treehouse Quick Tip, we'll learn how to overcome this hurdle with Git's stash command.
Many of you are already looking for the next opportunity to work on a freelance project or to get hired by a company. In this Treehouse Quick Tip, Dan Gorgone explains the importance of preparing detailed portfolios and researching prospective clients and companies so you can make a compelling case for yourself as the best candidate for a job or project.
It's tough to find a site on the web today that doesn't include Facebook, Twitter, and other social media logos in its design. You probably want to include them on your own site, but where do you find the actual icons? And are there rules for how to use them? In this Treehouse Quick Tip, Chris walks you through how to not only find the most up to date social media logos, but how to follow each site's brand guidelines.
Tests are small, automated Ruby programs that automatically test different parts of your applications. After writing some tests, you can run them using the "rake" command line application. Treehouse Ruby teacher Jason shows you how to run tests in this Quick Tip.
A Ruby gem is a library you can use in your Ruby applications. It's really easy to install a gem. You just need to know the name of the gem you want to install. In this Treehouse Quick Tip, Ruby teacher Jason shows you how to install the Bundler gem.
Many people assume that the time to test your website is right before it launches. Having a plan in place, from the beginning, to test your website from a user's perspective will make your work so much easier when it's time to go live. Treehouse business teacher Dan explains the ins and outs of website testing in this Treehouse Quick Tip.
Are you starting a new business and wondering what your financing options are? Treehouse Business teacher Pasan explains the various kinds of business financing available to you, including equity financing, debt financing, and angel investors, as well as each of their pros and cons.
Starting up a blog is a fairly simple process these days. But what's not so simple is figuring out what to write about and keeping the content pipeline full. In this Quick Tip, author C.C. Chapman shares advice on how to present new content to raise your profile and generate new business.
In this Treehouse Quick-Tip, Jason Seifer shows you how to use the [Select2 Plugin](http://ivaynberg.github.io/select2/) with Ruby on Rails. Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.
In this Treehouse Quick Tip, Andrew Chalkley will take you through an example using jQuery's Smooth Scrolling on a FAQ page.
Ever sketch something in pencil and want to transform it to digital art with lines of varying thickness? In this Treehouse Quick Tip, teacher Mat Helme will show you how to create a thick to thin line character illustration in Adobe Illustrator. This technique is just one of many techniques used when illustrating.
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 resolution. SVGs can scale to any size and not lose clarity. All SVGs are usually smaller in file size than raster graphics. Treehouse Illustrator teacher Mat Helme will help you get started saving resolution independent SVG files in this Treehouse Quick Tip.
In this Treehouse Quick Tip, Jason demystifies the concepts behind what a has many :through association is in Ruby on Rails. We'll figure out what a join table is, how different models fit together, and the syntax needed to make it all work. Score one for Treehouse!
jQuery, a framework written in JavaScript, offers a simple way to add behavior to websites using the same CSS selectors web developers are familiar with. In other words, you can write less, and do more! Treehouse jQuery teacher Andrew will help you get started with jQuery in this Treehouse Quick Tip.
Have you ever wanted to give a text field in Photoshop an unusual shape? In this Treehouse Quick Tip, Photoshop teacher Allison demonstrates how to bend and curve a text field into whatever shape you need!
Writing a business plan has many uses. You will really understand if your idea is feasible, and forces you to think about your company's future in detail. You'll have a much better idea if your business will work, and if you really want to move forward and actually start the business.
In this Special Firefox OS Treehouse Quick Tip, we discuss building web apps.
In this Firefox OS Treehouse Quick Tip, Jim discusses Firefox's Web Apps Manifest.
In this Firefox OS Treehouse Quick Tip, we walk through the awesome Firefox OS Simulator.
Learn how to improve your daily workflow while programming your iOS app. Knowing these these helpful Xcode keyboard shortcuts will give you a boost in productivity!
In this Firefox OS Treehouse Quick Tip, we discuss Web Standard Technologies.
The "each" method in Ruby on Rails allows you to iterate over different objects inside an array-like structure. It's an important part of development in Ruby, and Treehouse's Ruby teacher, Jason, explains how to use it effectively in this Treehouse Quick Tip!
In this Treehouse Quick Tip, Nick explains how to get a head start on your next project with HTML5 Boilerplate. Boilerplate is a front-end template that gives you everything you need to make your HTML5-based site ready for any browser.
When creating JavaScript functions, we give names to each one of the arguments that our function takes. But what if you want a function to take more than one argument? Learn more about variable arguments in JavaScript with Jim, resident Treehouse JavaScript expert, in this Treehouse Quick Tip!
In this Quick Tip, Treehouse WordPress teacher Zac explains the options you have when choosing your WordPress site's URLs. Choosing the right permalink structure can have an amazing effect on your website's SEO value. Do you have a blog or news site where a date-based permalink structure would work best? Or do you need those all important title keywords in the URL? Find out in this helpful tutorial from Treehouse.
In this Treehouse quick tip, we're going to look at how to change the home page in your WordPress blog from displaying the latest blog posts, to displaying a static home page instead. This is really helpful when you're using WordPress more as a content management system than just a blogging platform.
In this Quick Tip, Nick Pettit provides an overview of HTML5, including a look at some of the new tags now available to designers and developers. If you want to learn how to take advantage of all the new features of HTML5, this video is for you!
In this QuickTip, we're going to discuss how to create and edit an .htaccess file to use with a WordPress site.
