Artificial Intelligence
Grace Under Pressure: 2010 Emmy Nominations
I'd like to take a moment and recognize the accomplishments of my team.
Blog
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...
Drupal
With Drupal+Ubercart, be wary of alternative payment gateways
Learn why using mainstream payment gateways like Authorize.net or Paypal is crucial for secure ecommerce with Drupal's Ubercart. Avoid pitfalls...
Business
Drupal Design Camp Boston 2010 Sponsorship
Metal Toad sponsors Drupal Design Camp Boston 2010 to bridge gaps in the design community and enhance Drupal's usability, fostering collaboration and...
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.
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...
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...
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.
Design
Developers Think of Design as Black Magic
Developers think of design as Black Magic*. Really.
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...
Design
When it comes to web development, it can be tough to be the last person to touch something
Do you remember that Art Director who burst into your office with a crazy deadline for a print piece and then let you figure out who to actually make...
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Design has a big impact on web development
You know that button on the website you want to change? The one that looks like it was designed in 1999? Guess what? It was designed in 1999, and so...