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A Toad at TEDx Portland

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of attending Portland’s fourth TEDx event at the Keller Auditorium. Known as “ideas worth spreading,” TED...

Artificial Intelligence

Metal Toad and Kapow Launch Ken Burns America

Ken Burns America launched this week on the PBS.org website. In partnering with Kapow, Metal Toad took on the task of modifying and patching the...

Database

It's still not a F&*$ing iPhone.

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...

Business

Site Administration: Remember the Admin

Meet Jake. Jake administers a Drupal site. Jake is not a developer, nor does he want to be. Jake does not care about field formatters, image styles,...

Design

Metal Toad University #5: The Gathering

OMG, no video! For shame! We had some technical difficulties (read: Dan was a doofus), so there was no audio on the video. So while you could watch...

Drupal

Top 5 Blog Posts of 2012

What an awesome year! Even though we are almost a month into 2013 I still can’t help but look back at 2012 and at all the great content that came...

Drupal

Crafting an Apache Solr Schema.xml

Using Apache Solr with Drupal is fairly simple thanks to the apachesolr module, but recently we were tasked with making Solr a vital component.

Design

Hey Project Managers! Let's Not Talk Tools.

Learn why project managers should create flexible, accepted, and evolving processes before choosing tools for productivity in project management.

Design

It's Not the Pen

As developers and tech-heads, we all have our personal biases. I dare you to estimate how many times you have partaken in, or broken up, heated...

Design

The Myth of the Specialized Programmer

Ever heard of it? Apparently there is this mystical creature who is a master of his trade, knows all the tricks in the book and is generally just...

Artificial Intelligence

To Plan or Not to Plan (spoiler alert: We Do)

The importance of an creating an overarching technical plan at the beginning of a project is often debated. Based on past experience, it isn't always...

Artificial Intelligence

Web Agencies Need Code Review

Web design and development agencies are lacking in code review practices, and our collective clients are suffering as a result.

Artificial Intelligence

WebVisions PDX Interview Series 2012

The WebVisions Conference came through Portland last week - and Metal Toad was there to capture as many interviews as we could.

Drupal

Mobile Drupal optimization results

Our responsive redesign has been a great improvement for metaltoad.com. I was still not entirely satisfied with the speed of our site, especially...

HTML & CSS

What is SASS?

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...

Drupal

A quick look at CSS3 animations

Explore the potential of CSS3 animations for front-end development, including browser support, examples, and tools to streamline the creation process.

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