A lot of mobile apps that provide social networking features and connect you with your friends, upload information from your address book to their servers unbeknownst to you. Which apps are doing this? That is not the right question, the right question is WHY they are doing it? The main reason we have heard is that they want to have the information to notify you when a friend from your address book joins their service. I’m not sure if I prefer ease of use over violation of privacy. If an a

There were now just 3 people in the company, and one of them was on another continent. Lunch was just agreeing between 2 people what to do, a web app is overkill. Then we hired Michael. Then Jon. And Amit, now there are 19 people working in the Orlando office. We scaled for a while, we just had to get 3 or 4 or 5 people to agree on lunch. It became stressful around 7. Suddenly the whole office can’t eat at the same place. Organizing lunch became a problem again.

Greetings, folks! If you haven’t been keeping up with the latest Rails news, we have a new version! Ruby on Rails 3.2.1 has recently been released with some very welcome changes!

Tyson, our new Designer has also done a site-wide refresh on the app. It’s even easier to use now and super fast. Tyson lead the Digg Design Team for awhile so he knows all about optimizing for speed :)

In this 6 minute video, we will get you started with iOS development by learning about the benefits of Apple’s iOS Dev center and how to gain access to the integrated development environment (IDE) called Xcode.

We had so much fun celebrating with our previous giveaway, that we thought we would do another one.If you tweet to @treehouse the name of your favorite web app, we’ll randomly pick 10 winners to receive a "Mike the Frog" Nerd Merit Badge! Here’s a picture of what they look like:

This is super helpful to collect, test and experiment with your collection of semantic HTML & CSS patterns. For beginners it can be a great way to begin to understand the relationship between markup and style. No matter which audience you fall into, it is a handy tool for improving speed and productivity.

If you caught Ryan’s article last week, he told you about our brand new, not to be missed Vegas event – Future Insights Live! We’ve combined the Future of Web Apps, Design and Mobile into one massive five day event all geared toward you! Whether you’re a Web Designer, Developer or Entrepreneur there will be something for everyone.

Check My Colours is another web-based tool that can help out. Simply type in your live URL, and you’ll get a listing of all the areas where your color contrast can be improved. It’s a bit more technical than simply looking at a black and white image, but it’s good for more detailed analysis, especially on a complex web application that might have lots of dynamic views.

Last but not least, longtime Carsonified favourites, the Web Standardistas will be joining the fun, to teach their Good Ideas Grow On Paper workshop: “Armed with some fundamental design principles and an abundance of tools – which naturally includes the Standardistas’ ‘Bag of Awesome™’ (containing a veritable cornucopia of material) – we show the aspiring analogue designer a range of methods for breaking out of the stranglehold of the often clich&ea

If you like jsFiddle, then you will love SQL Fiddle. It allows you to select a database, build a schema, populate the schema and run queries against it. The service currently supports MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Why is this interesting? You can compare databases, post questions to forums along with your schema and query or just prototype an idea.

New videos are added regularly, so it’s a great way to stay up-to-date on all the latest technology and methods. Browse the entire library of videos.

You might be wondering why you should use version control, even for a site you’ll never collaborate with anyone on. This is a valid question. I can best illustrate the answer with a scenario you may have encountered in the past. Let’s say you’re in the middle of making a site and want to try something crazy with the css. Maybe you want to do a bit of an experiment and make everything strange shades of yellow and red. You don’t know if you’re going to keep the work w

The ongoing drawback to Google Fonts has been the smaller selection compared to other font services, but that’s rapidly changing. Even better, an editorialized web page called “Beautiful Web Type” has popped up that showcases the best fonts that Google has to offer. Loving this!

The ongoing drawback to Google Fonts has been the smaller selection compared to other font services, but that’s rapidly changing. Even better, an editorialized web page called “Beautiful Web Type” has popped up that showcases the best fonts that Google has to offer. Loving this!