JavaScript (3)
New Relic Real user monitoring hooks for Drupal
If you are using New Relic for performance monitoring a Drupal project, you may have noticed a large discrepency between the browser throughput and...
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...
Keeping track of page load times in Munin
As part of the services we provide for some of our clients, we monitor web page load times. The Munin plugin we were using at the time was this...
ToadCast 015 - ECommerce
Joining me for Toadcast 15 is Tom Martin to discuss ecommerce. That's right, a show all about a single topic!
Writing a simple Sublime Text plugin.
For the most part I like to keep my code editors as light and vanilla as possible.
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...
Metal Toad University - Class #4: JavaScript!
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Metal Toad University: Class 3
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Drupal 7 Tutorial: Using Breakpoint Panels
This tutorial is obsolete for the new version of Breakpoint Panels - New tutorial to come
ToadCast 010 - I Hope You Like Opinions
Here we go again! ToadCast 010, I was joined by Aaron Amstutz and Tony Rasmussen to discuss Apple, Google, and Microsoft hardware & dissonance with...
Programming Skills Every Non-Programmer Should Have
I recently came across Rahul Singh's Non-Programming Skills Every Programmer Should Have
How To Detect Which Element Was Clicked, Using jQuery
Sometimes we would like to find out which particular element (or set of elements) has user clicked on. However, binding click events on each element...
Quick and handy iPad version-detection plugin for PhoneGap
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...
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 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.
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.
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...
ToadCast 001 - Hello World!
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...
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...
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.