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I wrote up a script a couple of months ago using JS for Automation that will automatically rotate a Keynote file from portrait to landscape (for use in prototyping on Keynote for i…

Thanks for the examples, and I agree that error messages are super-important for beginners. We have written a bunch of code trying to "massage" error messages to be more helpful. I…

I repurposed the content in the course to produce a simple HTML version of the course here: http://rubymaverick.com/try-objectivec-book/ The content is up on my Github and any pull…

Very true. We really leaned heavily on the new literals and ARC in this course.

Yup, I agree with you, but I wanted to introduce referencing a variable before introducing formatted strings and placeholders. We actually went back and forth on this a couple time…

We've gotten the course back up and responding to submissions in a reasonable amount of time (2.5~ seconds as compared to 30~ seconds earlier). Please form a single file line behin…

That's a really cool project! Definitely going to look into it for some of our more complicated courses, but for this course compilation is usually under a half-second so it's not …

Looks like work has started on using emscripten with Objective-C code: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/pull/1162/files Still, a long way to go.

I'm actually working on extracting all the content for just a plain HTML version so people who don't want to do all the challenges will have something to read (it's almost a books …

I know I feel so bad for them. We are working on some temporary fixes (including caching which as we all know is really easy to do) and changing the way we isolate the code submiss…

Good idea, and our minis thank you ;)

We're reusing the stuff we built for the Try iOS course we came out with late last year. I've looked into Emscripten for this and from what I saw it really wouldn't work with this …

Sorry for the slow response times on the challenge submissions everyone. We only have so many Mac Minis running these things . We are looking into ways to speed it up

We (Code School) actually run all of our tests server side, even for courses like Mobile Web and Backbone.js. We do this because we don't want to deal with the headache of dealing …

We've gotten a couple of questions about this so far, and I just added an FAQ item in the Kickstarter project about this. Here is the answer: Most of our courses do take a lot of t…

mnicole, this is some KILLER feedback. I really want to make our hint system better (I'm one of the programmers that work on CodeSchool). A couple of us have been talking about cha…

My suspicion is that it just wasn't that good. This was given at a TEDx event, not an official TED conference, which means they have no control over the content and are pretty free…

Congrats guys. Way to represent Orlando!

Check out the Ruby on Rails guide on the subject: http://ryanbigg.com/guides/asset_pipeline.html DHH also talked a lot about it in his keynote this year at RailsConf: http://www.ru…

We are using node.js to safely execute code for our jquery air and HTML5 & CSS3 course on codeschool.com