Drupal
Sound Bytes from Drupalcon Portland
Insights from Drupalcon Portland: Key takeaways on content strategy, project management, and the evolving role of CMS in the digital landscape.
Drupal
DrupalCon Pre-Show and announcements
Here we go! Portland's Drupalcon is here. Here is a quick update about some of the exciting things that Metal Toad is bringing to the event. Stop by...
Business
Site Administration: Remember the Admin
Meet Jake. Jake administers a Drupal site. Jake is not a developer, nor does he want to be. Jake does not care about field formatters, image styles,...
Mobile Development
How (not) to think about Responsive Design.
Reimagine responsive design by focusing on real-world user interactions like touch, pinch, and scroll, rather than just window resizing. Enhance your...
Artificial Intelligence
The Successful Digital PM - Part 1: A Digital Project Manger's Role
The first in my series on becoming a successful digital PM and the role they take on to fit their team dynamic. From project manager to customer...
Artificial Intelligence
Passing Page Arguments to View Panes
Recently I was faced with the task of passing off multiple page arguments to a view pane, which seems simple enough after you have done it once, but...
The Toadcast
ToadCast 016 - Home Brew edition
Discover the essentials of home brewing with Metal Toad experts, covering beer basics, equipment, and tips for both beer and wine making.
Drupal
ToadCast 015 - ECommerce
Joining me for Toadcast 15 is Tom Martin to discuss ecommerce. That's right, a show all about a single topic!
AWS DevOps
Fixing "no such file" error in Capistrano upload()
Resolving Capistrano upload errors by utilizing the :mkdir option in net-sftp to ensure target directories are created during deployments.
Drupal
Receiving Git Attribution for Your Drupal.org Patches
If you contribute patches to the Drupal issue queues, you often spend a lot of time and hard work getting that patch through the review process.
Database
Metal Toad University #10: Real Time Word Press
In this episode our intrepid adventurers embarked on a quest to install WordPress. I have to admit, this was quite easy and didn't take nearly as...
Git
Metal Toad University #9: Going Live
This week we took our site live, but before we did that one of our students Lewis Notestine had created a new theme for our site: Spa
JavaScript
Writing a simple Sublime Text plugin.
For the most part I like to keep my code editors as light and vanilla as possible.
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad University #8: The Wolf Theme
This session had us finding new images to create a new theme for our site. Once our new wolf images and patterns were created and exported, we went...
Metal Toad University #7: First Site Done!
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Project Management
ToadCast 014 - Everyone's got a phone and a toilet
Join Chris Trahey and explore the benefits of developers in technical sales, handling notifications, and managing your to-do list in ToadCast 014.
Artificial Intelligence
Drush pm-download and pm-update: When and Why to Use Each
Drush is a Drupal developers Swiss-army knife.
Artificial Intelligence
Leading with 'Why'
When clients come to Metal Toad, they're looking to get something done - improve or add features, upgrade their site or perhaps build something new...
Drupal
How to Fix Caching for Views With Exposed Filters in Drupal 7
Learn to fix caching issues for views with exposed filters in Drupal 7 with a useful patch and step-by-step instructions. Enhance your site's...
Business
Developer Flow and Coming Up For Air
Developers shine when they get into flow, but we must be active participants in the mechanisms which make flow possible in an active organization.
Design
Metal Toad University #6: Gets Spooky
Join Metal Toad University #6! Enhance your web design skills with Chris Cech's tips on styling and theming.
Drupal
ToadCast 013 - Apps, Contests, Calling people out, and My Bloody Valentine
Join us for ToadCast 013 as we explore apps, contests, and more with guest Tyler Ward. Discover insights on Drupal, music, and homebrew.
Business
ChickTech High School Workshop
All developers know the feeling of accomplishment that comes with completing a tricky section of code.
Design
Metal Toad University #5: The Gathering
OMG, no video! For shame! We had some technical difficulties (read: Dan was a doofus), so there was no audio on the video. So while you could watch...
Drupal
Drupal 7 Tutorial: Customizing Services Input and Output format
Recently I was working with the Drupal services module, and ran into a few hang ups. For my project I needed a rest service that could export xml...