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by Scott Vandehey, CSS Ninja
The codec wars around the HTML5 video element might be settled sooner than you think: Basically, Google just open-sourced VP8, a video codec. VP8 is being combined with the Vorbis audio codec to create a new video format called WebM. Read More…
by Chuck Vose, Web Developer
When Webchick announced that Drupal was moving to Git at Drupalcon 2010, our office erupted in pleasure at the news. Lots of great Drupalists are already using Git and there's even an unofficial Github branch of Drupal for your branching and stashing pleasure Github mirror. However, Metal Toad Media has been an SVN shop for a long time we still have a lot of processes that use SVN, so we elected unanimously to do a gradual rollout: new sites get a private repo on Github, old sites just use git-svn. Looking back I wondering why we ever delayed. Read More…
by Chuck Vose, Web Developer
Every conference is better with events, but finding them can be such a pain when you're trying to absorb all the info in the seminars. So this year I'm setting up a calendar and I'm hoping people will help create it. If you have information that you think should be on the schedule please send me a tweet at @drupalconparty, email at vosechu@metaltoad.com, or visit me at the Metal Toad Media booth (I may not be there very often though). Hope to see you all there! iCal: http://is.gd/bvHJx HTML: http://is.gd/bvHQk Read More…
by Chuck Vose, Web Developer
Okay, as mundane as it sounds there are a lot of articles around the internet that are fundamentally misunderstanding the simplicity of this request: how do I reconnect my bluetooth device after it's been disconnected from being in my laptop bag or whatever. Read More…
by Chuck Vose, Web Developer
During my last mini flash project I created a project designed to help me with async calls in AS3. I hope that it helps you too. You can find the project on my github account. Intro Read More…
by Dylan Tack, Web Developer
A previous post described how to reposition node comments with Drupal's hook_menu_alter(), to facilitate a tabbed interface. One side effect that popped up was pagers – when a pager link was clicked, the tab state got reset. The solution was to refresh the #comments div with AJAX. As an interesting twist, it uses the ability of jQuery's $() to construct a new DOM object from HTML. This means that no new menu callback is needed in Drupal; it fetches the comments directly from the href in the pager link. While a little inefficient, this technique has the cool benefit of being able to grab any content from anywhere on your site, with merely a URL and a selector. It also degrades gracefully for non-javascript users; since without JS the tabs appear as sequential blocks the pager will function normally. (The following code is based on the AJAX Comments project). Read More…
by Joaquin Lippincott, President
Please don't get me wrong. Developers like designers who familiarize themselves with the technologies they are designing for. It saves time and energy, when first cut designs require little or no feedback from the development team. That said, dictating technology is a fast track to getting yourself removed from a developer's Holiday card list. This goes ten fold, if the suggestions are made without checking first in front of project stake holders. So what do I mean? Imagine a scenario where you're in a meeting with a developer and the VP of eSolutions and he asks: "What about mobile? I want to be able to see this thing on my iPhone!" Read More…
by Joaquin Lippincott, President
Developers think of design as Black Magic*. Really. Read More…
by Scott Vandehey, CSS Ninja
Metal Toad is proud to be a gold sponsor for DrupalCon SF 2010. If you see us there, say hello! Read More…
by Chuck Vose, Web Developer
There's a lot of good to be said about the Brightcove iPhone SDK, it's easy, it seems to work really well, but there's also a ton of gotchas and the docs are a little conflicting and/or out of date. The OnePlanet app is also out of date. This post is my attempt to rectify some of these things. There are three things needed to get your app going: Read More…