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by Kronda Adair, Developer & Client Experience Advocate
With our recent remodel complete and the dust cleared, it was time for Metal Toad to host our first event. On Sunday, we welcomed Women Who Hack, a monthly gathering "for women who want to hack on projects with or around other women. All types of projects (software and hardware), languages, platforms and experience levels are welcome." Read More…
by Robbie Ferrero, Web Developer
Let's keep this ball rolling! ToadCast 009, I was joined by Robert Haydon to discuss Apple Maps, entitlement, retro video games, and more! Read More…
by Adam Edgerton, Director of Project Management
We're in the middle of interviews for our open project manager position and we've been talking to a lot of great candidates, all with diverse project process backgrounds at various companies. Not to toot our own horn too much, but one thing that I've realized as a result is just how great our project life cycle model is! We've made great strides in the last several years, and at this point we have it dialed-in for the type of projects that come through our door. Without further ado, in the spirit of open-sourcing not only our software contributions but also our processes, here's what we do and why it works: Read More…
by Mike Bijon, Director of Digital Strategy
At tonight's PDX WordPress Dev meetup (thanks for the pizza Digital Trends) Daniel Bachhuber had some questions about benchmarking a plugin. Benchmarking WordPress itself is easy, but it's harder to isolate a specific plugin, much less a few calls to preg_match_all() within it. The questioned SEO Auto Linker plugin does this on every page load, so any running time adds latency on every page. Speculation from the meetup is that a PHP regex operating on post content, a blob, and looping through hundreds of links could be pretty slow. Too much caffeine today meant I had to give it a try. Read More…
by Joaquin Lippincott, President & Founder
I would love our company to show more gender diversity, but where are the female applicants? From what I've read women make up 17% of the Drupal community - though there is some question as to how many of those women are actual developers. Even in speaking with women in the Drupal community, it often seems that the women working in Drupal tend more to be in marketing positions than in highly-technical jobs. Read More…
by Kronda Adair, Developer & Client Experience Advocate
If you've done any signifigant development with Drupal, you're probably (deeply) familiar with a little function called dpm(). I think it stands for Drupal Print Message. If you aren't familiar, dpm() is available through the Devel module and it's a great tool to dive into any Drupal code you might be working with. You can examine available variables, the node object, etc. It even prints out in a nice compact bundle in the 'Messages' area. Read More…
by Dylan Tack, Lead Development Architect
We like to use our own site to experiment with different technologies. CDN's are nothing new, and Metal Toad has projects running on competing systems including Akamai and Level 3. Still, I think Amazon Cloudfront is an interesting offering and I wanted to give it a spin. Here's my review of the service after setting it up with Drupal: Read More…
by Aaron Amstutz, Web Developer
We were recently using PhoneGap on an iPad specific JavaScript app (HTML5 in PhoneGap with Drupal data backend FTW!) and ran into a problem with the first gen iPad's RAM capability. For this specific project we just needed to disable some functionality for iPad 1 users, so I (with some objective C help from Chris) cobbled together a quick iPad version detection plug-in. Read More…
by Robbie Ferrero, Web Developer
We are back! ToadCast 008, I was joined by Jonathan Jordan to discuss password security, programmer mentality and philosophy, and more! Read More…
by Bernd Weber, CTO, Copper Frog Hosting
Ever heard of it? Apparently there is this mystical creature who is a master of his trade, knows all the tricks in the book and is generally just untouchable. He is the only one that can really solve the programming issues or even come up with any form of useful code in this particular programming language. Hmm... so if I learned to program Java that automatically disqualifies me from successfully programming in C? Or PHP? Or Visual Basic? Read More…