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...
For those wanting to give it a spin, Metal Toad has added HHVM support to our Vagrant box: github.com/metaltoad/trevor.
What's the best way to learn programming for beginners? What makes the difference between the people who knock things out of the park vs those who...
Here in Portland we have people who brew beer and many more who drink it! Between the brewing and consuming of it, there is the overlooked step of...
In Part 1 of this blog post I omitted one very important detail about the nature of Arrays.
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...
Every week I hear about someone choosing WordPress over Drupal (or vice versus).
When preparing for a big event, it is our job to make sure the general public sees exactly what is expected, and with the help of Amazon Web Service...
I've been doing a lot more Behat testing recently.
If you are using New Relic for performance monitoring a Drupal project, you may have noticed a large discrepency between the browser throughput and...
"[notice] child pid 45617 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)": This is usually the start of a very bad day. Since a segfault is a low-level error in...
The following is a rapid installation of PHP 5.5 on OS X 10.8. This compiles 5.5 from source, including two required libraries and finding the...
Metal Toad is an AWS Managed Services provider.
This is another post in my challenge to learn something new every day and then share that in a blog post.
There's no rocket science behind this post. Just like a construction project manager is probably going to want to know a thing or two about...
In this episode our intrepid adventurers embarked on a quest to install WordPress. I have to admit, this was quite easy and didn't take nearly as...
For the most part I like to keep my code editors as light and vanilla as possible.
Joining me for our 14th ToadCast is Chris Trahey where we talk about doing what is right for your clients and the benefits of developers as technical...
I'm very excited to announce that papers are now being accepted for DrupalCon 2013 in Portland!
Let's take a minute to step back and think about why we use namespaces, and how to use them to improve code quality. I suspect there's a lingering...
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
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...