At Metal Toad our front-end build is important to us. It helps us keep standards consistent and improves the quality of our projects.
Before working at Metal Toad, I saw an email from Acquia. A strange email. It went something like this:
Here at Metal Toad, we are starting to use NPM as a task runner to automate our development processes.
ToadCast #6, I was joined by Dan Linn to discuss Google Fiber, MTV (unexpectedly), personal audio devices, cool javascript projects, and CSS.
You may know about some of the problems that CSS has as a language. There is a lot of repetition. There is a lot of repetition. You may have worked...
CSS3 animations are finally becoming a useful tool in the front end developer's kit!
When we added the Compass CSS authoring framework to our projects, new wrinkles appeared in the deployment process. Committing the artifacts to Git...
When it comes to mobile development, I've seen a lot of buzz recently on how CSS3 can help people eliminate images and cut the bandwidth requirement...
By now you've probably seen Google "do a barrel roll". If you haven't, head over to google.com and enter "Do a barrel roll". What? You're using IE?...
There's a lot of buzz from developers about HTML5, but what does it really mean to business? I look at in terms of...
One of my favorite things about the development community is how lazy it can be.
Table layouts have been passé since the introduction of CSS. "A table should only contain data!" say the purists. But it had some major advantages...
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Responsive Web Design, and in particular about CSS3 Media Queries.
In this article, I’ll walk you through how to properly load your font files with @font-face in CSS to avoid the browser’s faux-italic and faux-bold...
Recently, twitter was buzzing with news of a CSS technique called
Like any Drupal themer, I've done my share of grumbling about the frequently ridiculous level of nested divs with dozens of classes.
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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...
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...