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Getting Content Administrators to Crush on Drupal
We're just getting back from a great weekend at DrupalCampLA. A lot of topics were raised there but the message that really came home for me was...
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A Git + Drupal Primer
Now that the Drupal community's migration to Git is in full swing, it's a great time to switch your own projects as well. Curious? Perhaps you saw...
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Do your clients send you presents? If not, maybe we can figure it out together, lets talk about D7UX.
Do your clients love you with such a furious passion that it borders on problematic? Do you find new customers calling you and saying things like, "I...
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Stop talking about scaling, make Drupal easier to use
It seems that I hear a lot of people within the Drupal community focusing on how to make Drupal scalable.
Drupal
How to increase traffic to your blog
If you've got some technical expertise and you're looking to increase your blog traffic stick to this winning formula: the "How to". A successful how...
Artificial Intelligence
We may not always be the right fit... but we probably know someone!
It seems that I often hear the term "full service agency" used a lot in the advertising/design/marketing/development world.
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Drupal snippets #1 (Views exposed filters, F5 tweaks)
While I'm certain that I could never work up to the standards of Peter Cooper his "Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don't Need Separate Posts" series...
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Grace Under Pressure: 2010 Emmy Nominations
I'd like to take a moment and recognize the accomplishments of my team.
The Importance of Writing Down Your Plan
People are often surprised when things don't go according to plan. In the web development world this may be a customer presentation, server...
Drupal
First Thoughts of Drupal- Part 2
Continuing on with the previous topic of essentially “what is Drupal?” we move on to the discussion of PHP and its importance in being able to build...
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With Drupal+Ubercart, be wary of alternative payment gateways
If you are using Ubercart to do ecommerce with Drupal, be sure to use one of the mainstream payment gatways: Authorize.net or Paypal.
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Drupal Design Camp Boston Sponsorship
Metal Toad is now sponsoring Drupal Design Camp Boston. There are a number of reasons for this, but the foremost is that Drupal needs to build...
Business
Shopping for a Web Developer is like Shopping for an Auto Mechanic
If you've been tasked with selecting a web developer, you may find the experience a lot like looking for an auto mechanic. Ultimately you want to get...
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...
Drupal
How to Select a Good Drupal Development Shop: Trust, UX & Security
If you are in the market for Drupal development, you may feel like you are trying to pick a car mechanic without knowing anything about cars. Like...
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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.
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How to Change the Content-Type Meta Tag in Drupal
I'm working on an HTML5 theme for Drupal 7 right now, and I needed to change the meta content-type tag. By default it looks like this: , and I needed...
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Big news for web fonts and video today
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...
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...
Design
Web Designers: Don't expect to earn points by suggesting technology solutions.
Please don't get me wrong. Developers like designers who familiarize themselves with the technologies they are designing for.