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...
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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...
Drupal
Quick Tip: Clean Up Your Drupal Modules Folder
Let's say you inherit a Drupal site and the modules folder looks like this:
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...
Git
Quick Tip: Stop ZSH Shell Auto-Correct from Driving You Crazy
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.
AWS
ToadCast 007 - Like a Boss
Here it is! ToadCast #7, I was joined by the owner of Metal Toad Media, Joaquin Lippincott to discuss standards, browsers, Mars rover Curiosity,...
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
ToadCast 006 - Google Fiber, OOCSS, and some nostalgia
ToadCast #6, I was joined by Dan Linn to discuss Google Fiber, MTV (unexpectedly), personal audio devices, cool javascript projects, and CSS.
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.
Business
How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work From Home
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Staying Organized – Tools of the Trade
To successfully manage projects in a digital strategy agency, you’ll find yourself using various services, programs and techniques to keep track....
Artificial Intelligence
PhoneGap Day! Michael Brooks on Contributing to Apache Cordova
Michael Brooks, @mwbrooks Open Source Designers are needed. Tech writers are really, really needed.
Artificial Intelligence
Phonegap Day! Pamela Fox on Phonegap Pain Points
Pamela Fox - @pamelafox She used to work for google, was on the Wave project.
Artificial Intelligence
Learning the Metal Toad Way
If you're a front-end developer you probably know that it can be difficult to keep up-to-date on all the new technology and techniques that our peers...
Education
ToadCast 004 - Everyone Wins
For our fourth ToadCast I am joined again by Aaron Amstutz and Slavko Pesic. We talk about the recent Google IO Announcements, tools for building...
Interviews
Using Twitter Effectively
You may have noticed Metal Toad has been expanding our scope when it comes to blog content – namely a lot of interviews, event coverage, and (soon) a...
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Drupal Views now supports queries of Google Analytics report data
Views 3 now supports queries against Google Analytics.
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.
JQuery
Using the Harvest API to Build Custom Reports
We use Harvest for time-tracking, which is simple and easy to use.
Education
Adding WordPress to the Arsenal
With the recent acquisition of Etch Software, Metal Toad Media has added a new Director of Digital Strategy, Mike Bijon, and diversified our service...
Artificial Intelligence
Responsive Web Design and HTML5 are the Future
With the latest launch of the Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet, the world is now up to more than five major Android hardware providers. Among each of these,...
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
How does Google do a barrel roll?
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?...
Drupal
PNW Drupal Summit Session: Calendaring with Drupal
Things You Can ( or Can't ) Do With the Full Calendar Module