The Cloud
What does Metal Toad do?
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Thoughts on 2021 StackOverflow Developer Survey
The StackOverflow Annual Developer Survey measures the developer community
Education
The Open Source Apprenticeship Model
The software industry is facing a workforce shortage of unprecedented proportions.
Education
Getting Started in the Tech Community
Everyone wants to change the world, but in order to do so, you have to put on pants. I found a loophole. That loophole is web development.
Database
Autocomplete Using ActiveAdmin and Rails 3
I love how easy ActiveAdmin is to use out of the box, but it can force you into using a panoply of workarounds for forms with any significant level...
The Cloud
Full Stack Basics for the Non-Developer
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
Agile
10 Months as a Junior Developer
I am now within a couple days of having survived as a Junior Developer at Metal Toad for 10 whole months.
Drupal
Drupal 7 Form API: Using #states with multiple conditionals (AND, OR and XOR)
I've been playing with D7 forms lately and have found #states to be somewhat challenging due to lack of documentation on Form API page. I've poked...
Drupal
Git: Always Be Branching (ABB)
In this week's episode, we'll be revisiting the Git workflow in greater detail. I was originally going to discuss Capistrano too but quickly realized...
JQuery
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...
The Cloud
Programming Skills Every Non-Programmer Should Have
I recently came across Rahul Singh's Non-Programming Skills Every Programmer Should Have
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...
AWS
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Phonegap Day! Pamela Fox on Phonegap Pain Points
Pamela Fox - @pamelafox She used to work for google, was on the Wave project.
Drupal
ToadCast 002
Browsers, Boilerplate, SASS battle innuendo, and destruction! Joining me on our second podcast is Dan Linn where we talk about browsers, user...
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...
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.
JQuery
First class dependency objects in ECMAScript Harmony
How to use first class dependency objects with ECMAScript Harmony.
Artificial Intelligence
Improved Lazy Loading for iPhone & Android
The latest version of the jQuery Lazy Load plu
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
PNW Drupal Summit Session: Calendaring with Drupal
Things You Can ( or Can't ) Do With the Full Calendar Module
Drupal
PNW Drupal Summit Session: Javascript Workshop
I need a session on how to choose which session to go to. So much great information and so little time.