Drupal
The Drupal Entityqueue Module
If you're familiar with the Nodequeue module and you wanted to create a queue of other entity types, like users or terms, then you
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The Cloud
The Emmys Chooses Drupal 7
For those who watched the Primetime Emmys last night the content management system (CMS) used to support the website probably didn't matter all that...
Drupal
How to Fix Caching for Views With Exposed Filters in Drupal 7
One of the better features of the views module in Drupal is the ability to cache your view's output. This can come in handy when your view is doing a...
Drupal
Drupal 7 Tutorial: Customizing Services Input and Output format
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...
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
Site Building at DrupalCon 2013 in Portland
I'm very excited to announce that papers are now being accepted for DrupalCon 2013 in Portland!
Artificial Intelligence
Drupal 7 Tutorial: Using Breakpoint Panels
This tutorial is obsolete for the new version of Breakpoint Panels - New tutorial to come
Drupal
How to Pass Multiple Values through an Exposed Filter in Drupal Views
I regularly work with Views and recently I have had a few odd needs. One of which was when a user selects an item, that item then disappears from the...
Drupal
Faster Database Backups via Drush! Plus Capistrano Integration
When working with Drupal sites, Drush is your go-to tool. This post is going to focus on the drush sql-dump command. This allows you to export your...
Interviews
Mastering The Metal Toad Project Life Cycle
We're in the middle of interviews for our open project manager position and we've been talking to a lot of great candidates, all with diverse project...
AWS
Using Amazon Cloudfront with Drupal
We like to use our own site to experiment with different technologies. CDN's are nothing new, and Metal Toad has projects running on competing...
Drupal
How to Jumpstart Your Programming Career
If you've felt yourself stagnating as a programmer recently, I have a cure for you. That's right, a ticket out of the back room or cubicle you've...
Drupal
Drupal 6 Tutorial: Creating a YouTube Video Gallery
Creating a gallery of your YouTube videos that you can filter by various tags is a trivial task in Drupal 6.
Agile
Agile Resource Planning at a Fixed-Bid Drupal Dev Shop
On any given month, Metal Toad Media will distribute the work for 25-30 different clients across 10 different development resources. The majority of...
Artificial Intelligence
How I got Twitter, UNIX Timestamps, and Drupal 7 to all play nice
Recently I had an opportunity to work with Twitter module for Drupal 7 on one of the projects. Most of the functionality I needed for the project was...
Drupal
How to Write Drupal Update Scripts
This is the second part in my two-part series about Drupal update scripts, specifically focusing on using update scri
Drupal
Creating a Custom Panels Layout in Drupal 7 (Video Tutorial)
There are a lot of great tutorials on the web and, as Chris pointed out, Drupal is a pretty developer friendly pla
Drupal
Why You Should Spend the Extra Time to Write Drupal Update Scripts
Drupal update scripts are a great way of automating database updates.
Interviews
Sprinting to Drupal 7 - Interviews with the Drupal.org sprint team
It was sprint time last week here in Portland, where over 20 people came to upgrade Drupal.org up to Drupal 7. There were 5 different teams focusing...
Drupal
Using Drupal to Make a Super Fast Mobile App
Let's imagine a scenario where you want a super-fast mobile app that uses a Drupal backend from an already existing site.
Drupal
Handling long-running background tasks in Drupal 7
In my previous post, I discussed how to import a large dataset into Drupal via Drush's batch API. In this blog post, I'll cover how to create...
Drupal
Using the Drupal Batch API
Recently I was working on a site for a library that had a lot of data that needed to be imported into Drupal as nodes. Each book title, e-book, DVD,...
Drupal
Custom Sort Drupal Content with the Draggable Views Module
In the world of sorting, sometimes 'newest first' or 'oldest first' just doesn't cut it. During a recent Drupal project, we had a client who wanted...
Artificial Intelligence
Boilerplate 1.0 for Drupal 7: Responsive HTML5 & SASS
Great HTML5 support based on the excellent Boilerplate HMTL5 template, full SASS support, and a base fixed/flexible responsive layout similar to Zen...
Drupal
Using Drupal Contextual Filters in Views
It can take a while when you're new, but once you start to wrap your head around Views, that is when Drupal gets really fun. In this tutorial, I'll...