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This video is the first video in the iOS – App Settings badge from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos. The entire iOS Tutorial – App Settings: Property List consists of the following videos:

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We have an amazing late addition to our Future Insights Live show taking place in Vegas in less than 2 weeks time…. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Lead Developer, Zach Ware - will be joining us on stage for a special extended Keynote!

That’s right – the infamous Vegas company will be joining us to discuss The City As A Startup. Zappos are helping accelerate community, learning, and serendipity in downtown Vegas to generate productivity, innovation, and happiness and will share their insights with you.

If you’d like to see Tony and Zach on stage, they’ll be speaking on Friday 4th May at 8:45am! Check out our full schedule and register today.

This video is the third video in the Accessibility: Web Apps badge from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos. The entire Accessibility: Web Apps badge consists of the following videos:

1. Forms
2. Tables
3. Charts and Graphs

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With our new show Future Insights Live less than a month away, we’ve been getting more and more excited about all the great content our speakers will be delivering.

Longtime Future of Web Design favourite, Aarron Walter (UX design lead at MailChimp) is presenting a keynote on “Honest Customer Relationships,” an approach to communicating with customers that weaves through nearly every activity of the business, including UX and social media platforms.

The purpose, according to Aarron, is to understand why communicating honestly with your customers (as opposed to, for example, BP’s superficial marketing effort before the catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon spill) is so important, and how to get there.

“Companies that are scared to be honest, or that have a dark streak in them, are going to be forced to shift,” he says. “The right way to do this is with a great deal of honesty and sincerity — sharing your personality and humanity to create a connection with your audience.”

It’s a fascinating premise, and it’s about so much more than establishing a presence on Twitter!

For the full interview you can head on over to our FI Live Blog

(Thanks to Yoshi82 via Flickr for the image above!)

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This video is the first video in the Layer Basics badge from Treehouse, a high-quality video training site with hundreds of short videos. The entire Layer Basics badge consists of the following videos:

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Sponsored Tags

Probably the biggest item to come out of the recent meetings is the new standard of sponsored tags. Even though the WHATWG was founded by individuals from Apple, the Mozilla Foundation, and Opera, they’re rapidly approaching a budget shortage. Primarily for this reason, sponsored tags are being introduced in to the next version of the HTML6 specification.

A company or individual may purchase a sponsored tag up until the close of the HTML6 spec process. The deadline for submissions is April 2nd, 2013. There are a couple of different options for sponsorship, however, the common theme is that a company or individual may pay to have their brand become a tag or attribute. In order to maintain openness and allow everyone to get involved, different sponsorship tiers are available.

Tier 1: Tin

The tin tier is the most frugal option for brands wishing to get their information in to the HTML6 specification. The tin tier allows you to purchase an attribute on an existing tag. Tags that are not as popular will cost less than tags that are used more often. For example, GoDaddy could purchase the abbr tag and, by default, browsers would implement the color of GoDaddy’s choice as the default color of an abbreviation. Additionally, in the case of the abbreviation tag, a small (Sponsored by GoDaddy) block of text will be appended to any abbreviation. Web page authors can optionally add the amount of enthusiasm they have for the brand by specifying a number. The code would go from this:

<abbr title="Team Treehouse!">Treehouse!<abbr>

To this:

<abbr title="Team Treehouse!" godaddy="1">Treehouse!<abbr>

The implemented code would look something like this:

Treehouse!

The tin tier starts at $250,000 USD.

Tier 2: Aluminum

This gets you a full tag written in to the specification. Sponsors at this level are allowed to define the width, height, and overflow of the content.

The aluminum tag starts at $1,500,000 USD.

Tier 3: Diamond

The diamond tier displays a full, non-skippable splash screen before each page load. The default display time is 1 second but you may upgrade the display time and have it be extended in 1 second increments. Each second costs an additional $2,500,000 USD and 50,000 reddit karma points. None of the Reddit karma points may be from re-posts, posts in any of the default sub-reddits, or cat pictures.

Pricing of the Diamond tag starts at $20,000,000 USD and requires purchase from each browser vendor.

The Future of HTML

That’s what’s in store for the future of HTML. What do you think? Will you or your company be buying a sponsored tag? Let us know in the comments!

“I need to learn basic life skills in addition to web design.” – Bradley Donovich

“If only Treehouse would give me tips on how to do regular, every day things instead of just tell me how to make web sites.” – Sean Raptor

“I wish Treehouse could help me apply stylesheets to my own life.” – Kim Jones

“I already have a high paying web development job but I’d subscribe to Treehouse if they helped me to become a functioning member of society.” – Frank Smith

Well, Frank, and the millions like you, today that that day.

Introducing Treehouse Life Styles

Treehouse Life Styles™ puts the Treehouse in to every day life. You’ll be able to learn how to do normal, every day things much better than you already do. All this from our current teachers at Treehouse.

We’re launching today with just three badges:

• Taking the perfect profile picture with Allison.
• Chair Yoga with Amit
• Online Dating with Nick

Treehouse members have immediate access to the first three badges. If you haven’t been sold so far, here’s a preview. We hope you like the videos enough to sign up for the site!

Chair Yoga with Amit Bijlani

How To Take The Perfect Profile Picture with Allison Grayce

Online Dating with Nick Pettit

The entire Treehouse Life Styles™ series will be coming out throughout 2012. Immediately following our first thre videos, we’ve got the following:

• Cooking with Jim
• Finger Parkour with Mat
• Wood Working with Jason
• How to Brush Your Teeth with The whole Treehouse Crew

Finally, here’s the entire line-up for Treehouse Life Styles™ videos through the end of the year:

• Checking the Mail
• How to use a Mouse
• Finger Painting
• Changing the oil in your car
• How to make the perfect phone call
• Drinking Coffee
• Unlocking Doors
• Turning on the Lights

The Treehouse Team is super excited about the Treehouse Life Styles™ videos and all they have to offer. Are there any basic life skills you have no idea how perform? Would you like someone to teach you? Let us know in the comments!

Calling all coders, designers, project managers and more! Heroku is sponsoring an awesome segment to our Future Insights Live show where you can collaborate and innovate in our 4-hour hackathon!

There will be beer, snacks, and beanbags. All we ask is that you sit back, network with fellow attendees and have a go at building and deploying your very own app in this hands-on session. It’s going to be a blast!

The hack will take place on Wednesday May 2 from 5:00 – 9:00PM. We’ll be releasing more details shortly, in the meantime check out our updated schedule online and see what other awesome things we have on offer!

Hacking not your bag?

If you’re not really into the idea of our hackathon and you’d like to take part in something… let’s say… a little more offbeat – we’ve arranged an Instameet photowalk with one of our awesome speakers and Instagram lover, Mike Kus.

The Instameet will be taking place after the workshops on Monday 30th April from 5:30PM. Join us for a wander around the sites of Vegas. Always fun!

Just a little note – our awesome hotel deal runs out this week so if you want to be close to the action we recommend you book up asap. Head over to our information page for more details special room rate of just $97 (plus taxes) at the MGM Grand which will be running out at the end of this week!

Photo courtesy of heathercapri

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Have you recently launched your web or mobile app? Are you almost there, ready to launch? If so, we are giving YOU the opportunity to get up on stage at Future Insights Live and pitch your app to our audience of attendees, exclusive press and speakers in our App it Out contest. Brought to you in association with the awesome new Start-up Koding, you can also win an amazing trip to the Big Smoke – London!

What You Have To Do

1) Email us a video link demonstration of your web or mobile app (no longer than 60 seconds)
2) We will then post the video on our App It Out blog
3) Our readers will vote for their favourite pitch
4) The top 6 with the most votes (3 mobile and 3 web apps) will be invited to Future Insights Live to pitch their app
5) Our panel of esteemed judges (including the AppJudgment team) will give feedback and choose the winners live at the event
6) The prize – An awesome trip to London to attend a future Carsonified event of your choice, including flights and hotel!

So get creative, and send us your video links. We’ll start posting them next week until the closing date of April 10th.

Check out Future Insights Live to see who will be joining us and the amazing content you can enjoy!

This year, we’re offering four Future of Web Design London attendees an incredible opportunity – entry to the first ever FOWD Factor! Go head-to-head on the main stage with a 5-minute web design talk to win a place as a Rising Star speaker at FOWD NYC. The crowd will be voting for the speaker who wows them the most in that short space of time – and we’ll be flying the winner out to the Big Apple to deliver an extended talk this autumn.

The contest is open to everyone attending FOWD London. All you have to do is email Cat with your pitch for the fast and furious session you’d like to deliver. As ever, we’re looking for the talks that will be most interesting and valuable to our web designer crowd – whether you’re sharing short cuts, front-end tips, business advice or your thoughts on the future of our industry, let us know. We’ll select the final four and then FOWD attendees will decide the winner, live at the show itself.

Pitches can be submitted in writing, or if you’re feeling creative, feel free to make a video etc. The deadline is April 11th, and finalists will be notified shortly after the closing date. Good luck everyone!

(Thanks to the State Library of Queensland, Australia via Flickr / The Commons for the image used above!)

We are super excited and happy to announce that App Judgement will be joining us on stage at Future Insights Live. Brought to you by Revision3, App Judgement is the popular daily online show and is the place to get your app reviews and previews.

The Revision3 team will be hosting an array of exciting activities including, The App Game Show whereby three conference attendees will be invited on stage to take part in a little battle of the minds/icebreaker. The intriguingly titled iOS App Infoporn and Apps That Matter, where they will be reviewing apps that are actually helping us become better people!

There will be lots of other little surprises along the way including some special guest appearances from our speakers and exclusive information from some of the industry’s leading companies. All wrapped with our brand new competition – App It Out which will give you the opportunity to join the team on stage and pitch your app, live! Details coming very soon….

Check out the Future Insights schedule and speaker page to see who is joining us at the show and pick up your pass today. As Think Vitamin readers, you can use promo code THINKVITAMIN for a 10% discount which could save you up to $180 per ticket!

We’re fed up of sitting around waiting for FOWD London to happen, so to help us pass the time until May rolls around, we’d love it if you’d join us for a Meet Up next week! Come and share a drink or two with other like-minded web designers, connect with old FOWD friends, or make some new ones before the show itself rolls around.

You don’t need to be a FOWD attendee to come along, everyone’s very welcome.

Date – Friday 9th March, 7.30pm – 10.00pm
Venue – The Red Lion (upstairs), Shoreditch

Prizes – We’re proposing a mini BarCamp-style skill swap during the meet up. To make things interesting, the person who shares the best web design tip or trick will win a seat in a FOWD London workshop of their choice.

Three runners up will get a copy of Zoe Gillenwater’s Stunning CSS3, and a super special web designer themed pack of Tattly tattoos.

Discount – Because we’ll all be the best of friends by the end of the evening, we’re giving everyone who pops along a secret FOWD London 15% promo code.

If you’d like to join us next week, drop Cat an email so we can keep an eye on numbers! Hope to see you there :)

We’re hiring four new video teachers! The Treehouse video studio is located in Orlando, Florida which is where you’ll be working. We’re looking for some amazing people that can dominate the following roles:

• PHP & WordPress Teacher
• Front-End Design Teacher
• Android Development Teacher
• Business & Marketing Teacher

Responsibilities

1. Writing and recording videos
2. Writing quizzes and code challenges
3. Creating downloadable assets and code
4. Writing blog posts for Think Vitamin

Here’s one of the videos from our library, which is similar to what you’ll be creating:

Skills and Qualities

• You have crazy passion for the web. You live this stuff!
• You have outstanding writing abilities.
• You have impressive presentation skills and lots of on-camera confidence.
• You’re self motivated and you maintain your razor sharp knowledge.
• You whole-heartedly believe in our Core Values.

Our Benefits

We believe work, fun, and generous benefits go together. Treehouse team members enjoy…

1. Full salary for a 4-Day week! We don’t work Fridays :)
2. 18 vacation days, 9 federal holidays, and two weeks off at Christmas
3. Free iPhone + monthly contract
4. Free lunch every day
5. 401(k) contribution matching
6. Full coverage for medical, dental, and vision

Working in Orlando

You’ll absolutely love working in our Orlando office! In addition to the growing teaching team, you’ll also work closely with our talented video production crew. These creative guys and gals are the best in the biz; they will make you look and sound your best.

We’re a fun loving bunch that appreciates cupcakes, remote control helicopters, hammocks, Nerf wars, and coffee. Oh, and animated GIFs! Can’t forget about the GIFs. :) Here’s a behind-the-scenes video of a project we all worked on together that will give you a flavor for the office.

How to Apply

1. Create a 3-5 minute audition video where you teach a topic related to the role you’re applying for. If you love PHP and WordPress, tell me all about themes or plugins!
2. When you’ve uploaded your video to the web, email the link to nick@teamtreehouse.com – Please do not send email attachments.

Also, please don’t send a resume. ;) We don’t care about your education or how many jobs you’ve worked. We’re looking for confidence, friendliness, passion, and crisp teaching abilities.

Application Deadline

Make sure to email us your application by Thursday, March 8th 2012!

I’m super excited to announce that Peter Vesterbacka, the Founder of Angry Birds, will be speaking at Future Insights Live in Vegas, April 30 – May 4th.

There are only 19 Early Bird tickets left, so buy your ticket here. See you there!

HTML to PHP

First things first let’s turn our project from HTML to PHP. This task takes two easy steps. First, make sure we have our files in a php environment. Second change the file extension of the index file.

As most of you know, when you run PHP you need to be in a PHP environment such as a live server or a local server. I personally use MAMP as a test server before putting anything live. MAMP is for Mac users where as WAMP is for Windows users. These two solutions are super easy to install and operate. Also you have the option of using a live server.

Now that we have our PHP environment lets take our static HTML Dribbble Portfolio and upload it to our server. Since I’m using MAMP the default local host is ‘localhost:8888/’ and the directory is ‘Dribble-Portfolio/’. In the browser the direct path is ‘http://localhost:8888/Dribble-Portfolio/’. From here lets change the file extension of our index.html to index.php. When you refresh the page you will notice the url doesn’t change at all and the page still renders the same. This is exactly what we want.

Download the PHP wrapper for the Dribbble API

Thanks to Martin Bean for making this next step super easy. Martin created a ‘PHP wrapper for the Dribbble API’ which you can download at github. This allows us to access the Dribbble API with minimal code. Simply download the file from here and unzip it. Copy the ‘src’ folder inside the main folder and paste it in the same directory as our index.php. Your directory should now look like this:

Integrating Everything

Now it’s time to jump into some php code. First we want to add the following code to our header area right before the html doctype:

 
<?php
 
require 'src/dribbble.php';
 
$dribbble = new Dribbble();
 
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
//Dribbble User ID
$playername='mathelme';
//How many 'shots' would you like to display per page?
$perpage='12';
 
//Contact Info
$email='mat.helme@gmail.com';
$twitter='twitter.com/#/mathelme';
$facebook='facebook.com/mat.helme';
$linkedin='http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mat-helme/28/7b5/710';
 
 
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
?>
 
<!DOCTYPE html>

Lets briefly go over the code. We start off with an opening php tag. The next bit of code calls the ‘dribbble.php’ file which we placed in our directory and initiates its options for the Dribbble API. Directly under the ‘//Dribble User ID’ is where we specify which dribbble account we want to pull from. For example purposes I have used all of my credentials. My direct url to my dribbble account is http://www.dribbble.com/mathelme, so my player name is ‘mathelme’. Then below that is how many shots we want to display. I would recommend using ’12′. Lastly is the contact info. Again I have used my credentials for example purposes. Simply swap out my info with yours. Lastly we close the php tag.

Now that we have initiated all the php functions and variables lets swap out the data in our page. Our first step is swapping out our contact info. Simply highlight all the data between the ‘nav’ tags with:

 
<ul class="menu">
 
     <li><a href="mailto:<?php echo $email ?>" class="email"></a></li>
     <li><a href="http://www.dribbble.com/<?php echo $playername ?>" class="dribbble"></a></li>
     <li><a href="<?php echo $twitter ?>" class="twitter"></a></li>
     <li><a href="<?php echo $facebook ?>" class="facebook"></a></li>
     <li><a href="<?php echo $linkedin ?>" class="linkd"></a></li>
 
</ul>

All we are doing here is changing the ‘href’ ‘#’ link with the variables we set in the head of the page through a php echo statement.

Now we want to pull in the latest shots for our Dribbble user. Simply swap out the following code in between the id ‘container’ with:

 
<?php
 
                    $my_shots = $dribbble->get_player_shots($playername, 1, $perpage);
 
                    foreach ($my_shots->shots as $shot) 
                    {
                        echo '<a class="box" href="' . $shot->url . '"><h3>' . $shot->title. '</h3><img src="'. $shot->image_url . '" alt="' . $shot->title. '" class="pic" />' . '</a>';
                    }
 
?>

This php code runs a loop and grabs the latest 12 shots from the Dribbble user and returns a linking title and image to Dribbble.

Your final index.php file should look something like this:

 
<?php
 
require 'src/dribbble.php';
 
$dribbble = new Dribbble();
 
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
//Dribbble User ID
$playername='mathelme';
//How many 'shots' would you like to display per page?
$perpage='12';
 
//Contact Info
$email='mat.helme@gmail.com';
$twitter='twitter.com/#/mathelme';
$facebook='facebook.com/mat.helme';
$linkedin='http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mat-helme/28/7b5/710';
 
 
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
?>
 
<!DOCTYPE html>
 
<html>
 
<head>
 
	<!--Viewport-->
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1; maximum-scale=1">
 
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
 
	<title>Dribbble Portfolio</title>
 
    <!--Google fonts-->
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway:100' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
 
    <!--Main Stylesheet-->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
	<header>
 
    	<h1 id="logo"><a href="#"><img src="images/logo.png" alt="My Logo" /></a></h1>
 
        <nav>
 
        	<ul class="menu">
 
                 <li><a href="mailto:<?php echo $email ?>" class="email"></a></li>
                 <li><a href="http://www.dribbble.com/<?php echo $playername ?>" class="dribbble"></a></li>
                 <li><a href="<?php echo $twitter ?>" class="twitter"></a></li>
                 <li><a href="<?php echo $facebook ?>" class="facebook"></a></li>
                 <li><a href="<?php echo $linkedin ?>" class="linkd"></a></li>
 
            </ul>
 
        </nav>
 
    </header>
    <!--end header-->
 
    <section class="half">
 
            <img src="images/me.jpg" class="main-image" alt="This is Me" />
 
    </section>
    <!--end main image-->
 
    <section class="half">
 
    	<h2 class="tagline">Check Out My Super Radical One Page Responsive Portfolio Which Pulls My Dribble 'Shots'. Get Gnarly!</h2>
 
    </section>
    <!--end tagline-->
 
    <div class="clear"></div>
 
    <section>
 
			<h1>Latest Work</h1>
 
 
			<div id="container">
 
 
                    <?php
 
                    $my_shots = $dribbble->get_player_shots($playername, 1, $perpage);
 
                    foreach ($my_shots->shots as $shot) 
                    {
                        echo '<a class="box" href="' . $shot->url . '"><h3>' . $shot->title. '</h3><img src="'. $shot->image_url . '" alt="' . $shot->title. '" class="pic" />' . '</a>';
                    }
 
                    ?>
 
 
			</div>
 
	</section>
    <!--end dribble content-->
 
    <div class="clear"></div>
 
    <footer>All RIghts Reserved <a href="#">www.website.com</a></footer>
    <!--end footer-->
 
    <!--js files-->
    <script src="scripts/jquery.js"></script>
    <script src="scripts/fitText.js"></script>
 
    <!--initiate fitText-->
    <script>
 
		$(document).ready(function() {
 
			/*FitText*/
			$(".tagline").fitText(1.1, { minFontSize: '20px', maxFontSize: '200px' });
 
		});
 
    </script>
 
</body>
 
</html>

Congratulations you have successfully created a responsive one page Dribbble portfolio for Chrome, Firefox and Safari. As for Internet Explorer 8 and up we will need to add some additional code.

IE fixes

The fixes for IE aren’t going to be exact fixes but more or less simple solutions. Here is what we need to add directly below the main stylesheet in the head tag:

 
<!-- IE fixes -->
    <script src="scripts/html5.js"></script>
    <script src="scripts/respond.min.js"></script>
 
    <!--[if IE]>
      <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ie.css" />
    <![endif]-->

The html5.js file is to allow IE to support HTML5 elements. The respond.js file is used for media quires in IE, since they don’t support them. Lastly we use another style sheet specifically for IE since it doesn’t support CSS3 column-count or column-gap. Also we added CSS3pie to fix the rounded-corners.

Source Files

Role Those Credits:

• Dribbble
• jQuery
• Fit Text
• CSS3pie
• HTML5.js
• Respond.js
• Treehouse

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Last week, event mascot-in-chief Fil Bot joined us in the offices, for a chat with Ryan Carson, founder of Carsonified and Treehouse.

The pair discussed the Future Insights Live conference, Ryan’s conference session on the new gamification layer in Treehouse, and the joys of spending time with 1,000 or so of the top minds in web and mobile design and development.

Early Bird pricing for Future Insights Live ends this week, so head over to Registration and we’ll see you in April…

Hope you can join us for that frozen margarita :)

Bert Appward of the Google team recently released a superb interactive book titled “Field Guide to Web Applications“. Through the literature Bert presents the best skills and practices of building modern web apps. The guide covers the following topics:

1. KNOW YOUR WEB APPS
2. DESIGNING WEB APPLICATIONS
3. CASE STUDIES OF WEB APPS IN THE WILD
4. BUILDING GREAT WEB APPLICATIONS

Not only is it a great read but a fun experience. The guide has an almost tangible feel to it as the pages flip and has a strong emphasis on texture. I recommend checking it out.

What is the Command Line?

If you really want to learn about the history of the command line, you can check out the Wikipedia page on the topic:

A command-line interface (CLI) is a mechanism for interacting with a computer operating system or software by typing commands to perform specific tasks… This method of instructing a computer to perform a given task is referred to as “entering” a command: the system waits for the user to conclude the submitting of the text command by pressing the “Enter” key (a descendant of the “carriage return” key of a typewriter keyboard). A command-line interpreter then receives, parses, and executes the requested user command.

TL;DR: wall of text.

You don’t have to be a developer in order to get the full benefit using the command line. Being familiar with how the command line works can vastly simplify your daily life. Let’s say you’d like to move all of the files with a certain extension from one folder to another. Let’s also say that there are far too many to want to select them in Finder and move them to a folder called html_files. You could take a lot of time and do it in Finder or open a terminal and type in the following:

  mv *.html html_files

It’s pretty easy once you get the hang of it. We’ll walk through that example now, learning the commands we would need to build up to that.

What Does It Look Like?

If you’re on a Mac, launch Terminal. You can find it in the "Utilities" folder inside of your main "Applications" Folder. This is what you’ll see:

Isn’t that exciting? Well no, not very. In fact, the command line is pretty boring and generally not very pretty. It does, however, provide great power once you learn to use it.

Let’s Learn Some Commands

The main way that you’ll interact with the command line is by typing commands in. For the most part, it works like this (yes, there are a lot of exceptions):

[command name] [options] [arguments]

We’ll start our command line journey with the ls command. This is a command that lists information about files. Essentially, it shows you a list of files in the directory or folder you tell it to. Let’s try it. Back in Terminal, type in ls and press enter. You should see something like the following:

  $ ls
  Public                  Desktop                 Library                 Sites               
  Documents               Movies                  Source                  Downloads           
  Music                   Dropbox                 Pictures

That’s what my home directory looks like. Cool, right!

Let’s say you wanted slightly different output that had file sizes and other information. Most command line programs offer more options to do what you want to do through the use of arguments. These can also be called options or flags. They are usually prefixed with a - character (hyphen or dash) to tell the program that you’re submitting an argument.

Here’s what the ls command looks like with the flags for a long list all files (by default, files that start with a . character are hidden) with human file sizes:

[~]$ ls -alhF
drwxr-xr-x+ 57 jason  staff   1.9K Feb  9 16:27 ./
drwxr-xr-x   5 root   admin   170B Nov  2 14:21 ../
-rw-r--r--@  1 jason  staff    15K Feb  8 09:51 .DS_Store
drwx------   2 jason  staff    68B Feb  8 09:40 .Trash/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jason  staff    42B Nov  2 15:34 .bash@ -> /Users/jason/Source/private/dotfiles/.bash
-rw-------   1 jason  staff   112K Feb  7 16:25 .bash_history
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jason  staff    37B Nov  2 15:36 .bash_profile@ -> Source/private/dotfiles/.bash_profile
drwx------  13 jason  staff   442B Feb 13 10:00 .dropbox/
drwxr-xr-x   3 jason  staff   102B Nov  2 16:35 .gem/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jason  staff    47B Nov  2 15:34 .gitconfig@ -> /Users/jason/Source/private/dotfiles/.gitconfig
-rw-r--r--   1 jason  staff    13B Nov  2 14:24 .gitignore_global
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jason  staff    20B Nov  2 15:48 .gvimrc@ -> Source/dotvim/gvimrc
drwx------   3 jason  staff   102B Dec  8 18:28 .heroku/
-rw-r--r--   1 jason  staff    27B Nov  2 14:24 .hgignore_global
-rw-r--r--@  1 jason  staff   622B Jan  9 14:10 .hgrc
drwxr-xr-x   6 jason  staff   204B Nov  7 09:36 .ievms/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jason  staff    45B Nov  2 15:34 .inputrc@ -> /Users/jason/Source/private/dotfiles/.inputrc
-rw-r--r--   1 jason  staff   349B Feb  7 11:18 .irb-history
-rw-r--r--   1 jason  staff   525B Jan 30 11:42 .irb_history
-rw-------   1 jason  staff   649B Jan 23 10:18 .mysql_history
drwxr-xr-x  69 jason  staff   2.3K Jan 12 00:40 .npm/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jason  staff    50B Nov  2 17:20 .pow@ -> /Users/jason/Library/Application Support/Pow/Hosts
drwxr-xr-x   4 jason  staff   136B Nov 21 17:06 .rbenv/
-rw-r--r--   1 jason  staff   8.1K Dec  7 18:02 .rdebug_hist
drwxr-xr-x  27 jason  staff   918B Nov 21 17:07 .rvm/
drwx------   9 jason  staff   306B Nov  7 11:57 .ssh/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jason  staff    13B Nov  2 15:48 .vim@ -> Source/dotvim
-rw-------   1 jason  staff    45K Feb  8 15:32 .viminfo
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jason  staff    19B Nov  2 15:48 .vimrc@ -> Source/dotvim/vimrc
-rw-r--r--   1 jason  staff   661B Jan 11 11:37 .vimrc.local
drwxr-xr-x@  5 jason  staff   170B Feb  8 09:40 AeroFS/
drwx------+  4 jason  staff   136B Feb  7 16:26 Desktop/
drwx------+ 21 jason  staff   714B Feb  7 16:26 Documents/
drwx------+  6 jason  staff   204B Feb  8 10:09 Downloads/
drwx------@ 51 jason  staff   1.7K Feb 13 09:48 Dropbox/
drwx------@  8 jason  staff   272B Jan 19 13:51 Insync/
drwx------@ 49 jason  staff   1.6K Feb  7 15:23 Library/
drwx------+  5 jason  staff   170B Feb  2 16:19 Movies/
drwx------+  6 jason  staff   204B Feb  2 16:19 Music/
drwx------+  7 jason  staff   238B Feb  2 16:19 Pictures/
drwxr-xr-x+  5 jason  staff   170B Feb  2 16:19 Public/
drwxr-xr-x   5 jason  staff   170B Feb  2 16:19 Sites/
drwxr-xr-x   9 jason  staff   306B Nov 29 15:32 Source/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 jason  staff    40B Nov  2 15:34 bin@ -> /Users/jason/Source/private/dotfiles/bin

You can look up the arguments to ls here. The path when using the ls command is optional. If it’s not submitted, it defaults to the current directory. You can add another path after the arguments if you choose to get a file listing of a directory other than the current one.

Some More Commands

If you want to change the current working directory, you can do so with the cd command. If you’re in your home directory and want to change to. If you wanted to enter your Sites directory, you would type the following:

  $ cd Sites
  [~/Sites] $

That would put you in the Sites directory. The output you see above [~/Sites] $ is because I’ve modified the built in prompt. If you don’t have that in your prompt (you probably don’t) and forget where you are, you can always use the pwd command to remind you:

[~/Sites]$ pwd
/Users/jason/Sites

Accomplishing Something Useful

Let’s say I wanted to duplicate one file as another file without using the Finder. For that, you can use the cp command. It takes two arguments: the path of the file you want to copy from and the path of the file you want to copy to. Let’s say I was in the think_vitamin directory from the Git for Designers article and I wanted to copy the index.html file to homepage.html. I could do the following:

[~/Sites]$ cd think_vitamin/
[~/Sites/think_vitamin master]$ cp index.html homepage.html

That would duplicate the index.html file to homepage.html file. If I have a change of heart and decide to rename the homepage.html file, I can use the mv command:

[~/Sites/think_vitamin master]$ mv homepage.html home.html
[~/Sites/think_vitamin master]$ ls -alhF
total 16
drwxr-xr-x   5 jason  staff   170B Feb 14 12:50 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 36 jason  staff   1.2K Feb 12 12:01 ../
drwxr-xr-x  10 jason  staff   340B Feb  1 01:57 .git/
-rw-r--r--   1 jason  staff     3B Feb 14 12:46 home.html
-rw-r--r--   1 jason  staff     3B Feb  1 01:57 index.html

Let’s say I was trying to organize files by their type. I’ve decided (for some reason) to move all html files to the html directory. I could move every file individually in Finder. Or, I could use something called the wildcard character and do it on the command line. The wildcard character is represented by an asterisk. Here’s what it looks like:

[~/Sites/think_vitamin master]$ mv *.html html/
[~/Sites/think_vitamin master]$ ls -alhF
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   4 jason  staff   136B Feb 14 12:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 36 jason  staff   1.2K Feb 12 12:01 ../
drwxr-xr-x  10 jason  staff   340B Feb  1 01:57 .git/
drwxr-xr-x   4 jason  staff   136B Feb 14 12:51 html/

Now let’s check out the html directory:

[~/Sites/think_vitamin master]$ ls -alhF html/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  4 jason  staff   136B Feb 14 12:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 jason  staff   136B Feb 14 12:51 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 jason  staff     3B Feb 14 12:46 home.html
-rw-r--r--  1 jason  staff     3B Feb  1 01:57 index.html

Getting Help

Invevitably there will be times when you get stuck or need a little refresher. The authors of most commands and programs knew that would happen. Accordingly, most programs allow you to specify either -h or --help as an argument. This will usually bring up a small help screen that displays the list of commands and arguments a program takes and give you a short description of each.

If you’re on a Mac or linux system, the man command will give you a much more in depth description of the options available. Not every program ships with a man page but most do. Reading through the man page will inevitably be helpful for understanding the command itself and all of the options. Often, man pages will include examples of correct usage, which is extremely helpful when you’re stuck.

If you’re still stuck, there’s always the option of doing a web search. Just type in the name of the command and the problem you’re having in to Google. Stack Overflow is another great resource for both finding help and looking up answers to your problems. Of course, Treehouse walks you through using the commands you need to accomplish tasks while earning badges.

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Apps Phoning Home

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 app specifically asks for your consent then by all means go ahead but don’t just steal my data! Yes, it is absolutely stealing if you are not asking for my permission.

What Can You Do?

Glad you asked. Firstly, you can learn how to detect these kinds of activities for yourself. All it takes is installing software and changing a few settings on your device.

The software for the job is known as a “man in the middle” or MITM proxy. As the name suggests, this utility stands in between your device and the server the app is trying to reach. The MITM proxy inspects the packets and provides you with useful information such as: request headers, parameters and data sent.

We are going to use a free tool called Paros proxy, but you could also use mitmproxy. The latter is only tested for OSX, Unix and Linux but I didn’t have much success with it. Paros is a cross-platform tool built in Java, which means you can install it regardless of your operating system.

Installing Paros Proxy

Before you can install Paros make sure that you have the Java runtime installed.

Download Paros proxy for your operating system. For Mac OSX users download the unix version and open up “paros.jar” file.

Next, find the IP address of your Wi-Fi connection.

• Windows go to the command prompt and type ipconfig
• Mac OSX open up the Terminal app, type ifconfig en1 | grep inet, or go to the System Preferences and click on Network

Finally, open up that Paros proxy software, from the menu select Tools > Options > Local proxy and in the address field input the IP address that you found in the previous step. Leave the port at 8080.

Setup Your Device

Open up settings, select Wi-Fi and tap the selected Wi-Fi network and scroll towards the bottom.

Find A Suspecting App

For this tutorial, we will use an app called Path which has been known to upload your address book. However, to be fair to Path they have issued an official apology and added an opt-in feature for a future update.

Make sure you have the Paros proxy software running and then open up Path on your device. Once you sign-up or login to Path you can see the requests being made to the server in logs of the Paros proxy software.

If you discover that an app is sending data that you have not consented to then please report it. Blog about it, let people know and make them change their policy to add an opt-in feature.

I want to tell you a story of a couple of problems that we’ve tried to solve several times with technology, when all we needed was a couple dollars worth of office supplies.

The Lunch Party

I’ve been working with Nick Pettit since 2007, before we came to Carsonified and Treehouse. In our last job we had a group of friends we would regularly go out to lunch with from the office. After a while, the decision of where to go became too difficult. “We went there yesterday!”, “I don’t really like X!”, and “I don’t know, where do you want to go?” became the common choices.

Then, I was writing in Rails, so I thought, “This is an easy problem to solve. Create a Restaurant and Person model, set up a voting system, input local eateries, Bam! Problem solved.” I had spare time in the office and this could easily be classified as learning, or experience building. I ended up making two or three prototypes over the 3 years I worked there.

The problem is, nobody really used it. Maybe it was a usability problem, but I think the process of using a web app to plan lunch just is not natural. Going out to lunch was a very social activity, and voting on a computer screen doesn’t really mesh well with that.

The “Lunch App” became a running joke between me and Nick. It was a more sarcastic version of “There’s an app for that.” An idea that seems easy, but just doesn’t really work. Fortunately, before I spent the rest of my life trying to plan lunch in the office, the problem was solved for me. Nick and I quit. Then we joined Carsonified to built Treehouse (then Think Vitamin Membership).

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.

For a few weeks we handled it in our campfire chat room. Someone would suggest a lunch destination, some people would be in, some not so much, an alternative choice would surface. It became hard to track who goes where. I began to think about the “Lunch App” again. Then I came to my senses.

I grabbed a sharpie and a pack of sticky notes, wrote everybody’s name and all of the restaurants, each on their own note. I stuck them on the wall and this happened.

It was amazing. Everybody could see the options, see who wanted to go where and make a good decision. We split into 3 reasonable groups and had excellent lunches, all the way around. This took 2 minutes to make.

There were bugs. The sticky notes were cheap. It was a bit boring, but that was fixed by going to the store and buying some extra-sticky sticky notes. I also picked up some stickers and other decorations so people could customize their stickies.

Version 2 was deployed in a few minutes, now with MySpace levels of “tasteful” customization.

Video Workflow

Lunch planning was not the end of our sticky note problem solving. Managing a video production studio is tough. We spent a lot of time at 2 video pros and 3 teachers. It was pretty manageable, but now there are 9 people on the video team, and 7 teachers. Now planning is critical. We have one screencasting room, and one video studio. With so many people figuring out who is using what resource when, and who is working with who when became our biggest headache.

At Treehouse, we use a lot of web apps. We have switched project management apps more times thatn I can count. Codebase, Basecamp, Github, Remember the Milk, Trello, Team Gannt, Asana, and probably a few others that escape my memory. It felt like we were switching project management apps every week. None of these apps were bad, but they all left something to be desired for our needs.

Then one day the sticky notes began to spread. Michael began utilizing other walls for organizing project workflow and scheduling

So, Sticky Notes Solve All Problems?

No, my point is not that we should all use sticky notes for everything. Obviously this has disadvantages vs a technical solution, but for lunch, we don’t need to have our remote employees involved, for obvious reasons.

The moral of the story is that it’s very easy to get lost in our tools. As web designers and developers, we love the web, we love our tools. It’s easy to get into the mindset of solving every problem with what you know, when the obvious solution just isn’t obvious to you anymore.

Next time you set out to solve a problem with software, step back and think, can I solve this problem without it?