As a data center operator we are in need of DNS handling for our internal servers and appliances. Handling IP’s for everything is not really an...
I recently came across Rahul Singh's Non-Programming Skills Every Programmer Should Have
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At tonight's PDX WordPress Dev meetup (thanks for the pizza Digital Trends) Daniel Bachhuber had some questions about benchmarking a plugin....
We were recently using PhoneGap on an iPad specific JavaScript app (HTML5 in PhoneGap with Drupal data backend FTW!) and ran into a problem with the...
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...
There was a discussion around the office recently about using Textile on our blog. I personally dislike Textile (and similar pseudo-markup), for a...
I switched my Unix shell to zsh a few months ago and overall I love it. But sometimes the autocorrect can be a little *too* helpful.
Web design and development agencies are lacking in code review practices, and our collective clients are suffering as a result.
So you want to work from home? Well, you have to convince me first. Ok. Maybe not me exactly, but I am a business owner and for years I successfully...
To successfully manage projects in a digital strategy agency, you’ll find yourself using various services, programs and techniques to keep track....
Michael Brooks, @mwbrooks Open Source Designers are needed. Tech writers are really, really needed.
Pamela Fox - @pamelafox She used to work for google, was on the Wave project.
We have two toads at PhoneGap Day here in Portland - you can follow the conference on Twitter #pgday. I'll be live blogging the event.
Andrew Lunny @alunny & Hardeep Shoker @hardeepshoker
First Episode Here we go! The first ever Metal Toad Media podcast: Toadcast! This is a weekly podcast dealing with the web, technology, and anything...
The WebVisions Conference came through Portland last week - and Metal Toad was there to capture as many interviews as we could.
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...
The slowest, most tedious way of finding a bad git commit is something we've all done before. You checkout some old commit, make sure the broken code...
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I needed a custom REST interface that mimicked a legacy API, rather than using elasticsearch's REST interface directly. Because we all know that I...
Learning to develop professionally involves a lot more than just writing code.
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...