Discover the essential layers of web development from a non-developer's perspective, covering developers, local environments, repositories, servers,...
In Part 3 of this series, we explored how to migrate taxonomies from a Drupal 7 site.
Drupal 8 provides a flexible, plugin-based architecture for migrating data into a site. In Part 2, we explored how to migrate users from a Drupal 7...
In this article, we will be building a custom migration which will import users from a Drupal 7 site into a Drupal 8 site.
At Metal Toad we use Capistrano to deploy our projects to their respective servers.
I am now within a couple days of having survived as a Junior Developer at Metal Toad for 10 whole months.
I hesitate to review Stack Overflow Careers 2.0, but I'm so excited I just can't hide it. I imagine that this is what the early adopters of LinkedIn...
I’m starting a new series dedicated to sharing project management templates we’ve created and frequently use at Metal Toad.
If you are using New Relic for performance monitoring a Drupal project, you may have noticed a large discrepency between the browser throughput and...
This is a quick one that I learned from a co-worker.
So here it is, the post about why I am switching from an Android to an iPhone, with just weeks before the new iPhone 5S release. First let me clarify...
Have you ever chased a bug down a rabbit hole and spent a few hours down there only to come back up for air thinking "why, oh why does the bug taunt...
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...
Drush is a Drupal developers Swiss-army knife.
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...
This is a quick example of how I got Periodic Tasks to work using Celery without Django.
As more and more people start using the internet, and as websites get increasingly full featured Google continues to see growth in its userbase. Open...
Learn how to pass multiple values through an exposed filter in Drupal Views and enhance your site functionality with custom coding techniques.
Enhance your Drupal deployment with faster database backups using Drush and Capistrano integration.
Let's say you inherit a Drupal site and the modules folder looks like this:
This is the second part in my two-part series about Drupal update scripts, specifically focusing on using update scri
Deploying code to WordPress installations has always been a bit of a struggle. Although there are a few WordPress plugins that help in deployments,...
Learn how to efficiently import large datasets into Drupal using the Batch API and Drush for seamless library data management.
Using Node.js and CouchDB to collect and store location data from the game Glitch. Learn to build a data-mining app and save results in CouchDB.