Drupal
First thoughts of Drupal
Like any good Gen-Y-er, knowing I would be starting a job at a web development company that specialized in Drupal technology, my first step was to...
SaaS Application
Drupal benchmark results using AB and the simple things we did to get here
I was trolling around the Internet today looking for drupal hosting benchmarks and I actually had a little trouble finding something current.
Drupal
How to Change the Content-Type Meta Tag in Drupal
Learn how to programmatically change the content-type meta tag in Drupal 6 and 7 themes, enhancing your site's HTML5 compliance.
HTML & CSS
Big news for web fonts and video today
Google open-sources VP8 codec and collaborates with Typekit to simplify web fonts and video formats, gaining support from major browsers and YouTube.
Drupal
Using git-svn to manage standard and non-standard branches
When Webchick announced that Drupal was moving to Git at Drupalcon, our office erupted in pleasure at the news. Lots of great Drupalists are already...
Drupal
Drupalcon '10 Party Schedule
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.
How to reconnect a bluetooth mouse/keyboard in OS X or Windows 7
Okay, as mundane as it sounds there are a lot of articles around the internet that are fundamentally misunderstanding the simplicity of this request:...
Design
Asynchronous processes in flash don't have to feel random - RequiredSequence v0.4 released
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...
Drupal
Revenge of the node comments: a pure jQuery comment pager
A previous post described how to reposition node comments with Drupal's hook_menu_alter(), to facilitate a tabbed interface. One side effect that...
Drupal
Metal Toad is a DrupalCon Gold Sponsor
Metal Toad is proud to be a gold sponsor for DrupalCon SF 2010. If you see us there, say hello!
Design
Getting started on displaying videos with the Brightcove iPhone SDK
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Dylan Wilder-Tack, Drupal Security Team Member
When discussing the benefits of open-source frameworks (especially Drupal), I've often heard, "But if everyone has access to the source code, how...
Clearing the state of a actionscript 3 app (aka, globals are eeevil)
Imagination time: Imagine for a moment that you have an app, it has one button and one little window. When you click the button it changes the text...
Business
The Value of 10% Time in Improving Your Life and Productivity
Convincing people that 10% time is valuable can sometimes be a chore but I'm probably one of the luckiest guys in the country because my bosses...
Drupal
A tiny cart block for Ubercart
Here's a tiny shopping cart block for Ubercart that fits right in with the menu. Of course the standard block could be themed this way, but this is...
Drupal
Drupal Theming 101: Theme Developer Module
If you haven't already heard of it, the Theme Developer is a great tool. It works like firebug, but for Drupal.
Drupal
Drupal Theming 101: How to Remove System Stylesheets
When you first start creating a Drupal theme, you might be frustrated by the large number of stylesheets that are included by default in your theme...
PHP
Facebook API Terminology
The toad just finished a small project involving the Facebook API and by far the most confusing aspect of the project was the terminology regarding...
AWS DevOps
NTP out of sync?
Is your unix-based system time out of sync? If it is out of sync by more that 1000 seconds, you will need to manually force it back into sync.
Drupal
Recursively load nodes from a rich data model
If you've ever worked with a rich data model in drupal you know it can be a pain to load up all the children and parents of a node within the...
Drupal
Drupal and Fivestar, ajax style. A short case study.
So there we were, facing a Flash based video player that could have multiple tabs of many videos apiece.
Drupal
Customizing views_cycle module for differently styled marquees
During the theming process for the Emmys, specifically Emmys.com and Emmys.tv, we were presented with 2 differently styled marquees. On Emmys.com,...
Drupal
Quick Drupal Cacherouter and Boost benchmarks
Performance benchmarks for Drupal caching solutions reveal Boost as the top choice for small sites, emphasizing the importance of efficient cache...
Drupal
More complete breadcrumbs for Ubercart checkout
By default, Ubercart sets the breadcrumb on the checkout page to simply "Home", which I personally find a bit odd. Because it calls...
Business
How Drupal's cron is killing you in your sleep + a simple cache warmer
A lot of what's written about performance tuning for Drupal is focused on large sites, and benchmarking is often done by requesting the same page...