The Cloud
Programming Skills Every Non-Programmer Should Have
I recently came across Rahul Singh's Non-Programming Skills Every Programmer Should Have
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Git
Quick & Dirty WordPress Plugin Benchmarking in Debug Bar
At tonight's PDX WordPress Dev meetup (thanks for the pizza Digital Trends) Daniel Bachhuber had some questions about benchmarking a plugin....
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...
Artificial Intelligence
New Competition: Will WordPress and Drupal Learn to Share?
After years of building and publishing on them, I'd love to say I knew CMS frameworks like Drupal and WordPress would be this huge. In truth they got...
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...
Android
ToadCast 005 - We'll Do It Live
ToadCast #5, our first live podcast and I was joined by Adam Edgerton and Mike Bijon.
Drupal
How Drupal is more welcoming than WordPress
I think we've all heard a few things about how Drupal and WordPress compare to each other.
Interviews
WebVisions PDX Interview Series 2012
The WebVisions Conference came through Portland last week - and Metal Toad was there to capture as many interviews as we could.
Artificial Intelligence
Simplify your WordPress Deployments
Deploying code to WordPress installations has always been a bit of a struggle. Although there are a few WordPress plugins that help in deployments,...
Artificial Intelligence
Learning Better Dev Skills by Programming in Public
Learning to develop professionally involves a lot more than just writing code.
Education
How to Become a Web Developer
So you want to become a web developer? Smart move. The web is a growth industry and I don't know of any university curriculum that adequately...
PHP
WordPress Tutorial : A unique dynamic sidebar for each page - or not!
The last few websites I've built have had sidebars that the client *may* or *may not* need to customize on every page. Some pages don't require a...
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...
Drupal
Ranking Drupal Modules on Drupal.org
One of the biggest dilemmas I faced as a new Drupal developer was figuring out which module was the best to use in any given situation.
Artificial Intelligence
Top 5 reasons why web designers should love Drupal
If you are a web designer and you haven't worked with Drupal before, you should really give it a try. Here are the top 5 reasons why...
Artificial Intelligence
The Framework is dead. Long live the CMS.
If you don't know already, the framework is dead.
Drupal
How to Decide Between WordPress & Drupal
WordPress is great - and so is Drupal. They are different platforms and should be selected for different projects depending on the needs. So how do...
Drupal
What's in a framework, experiences from Rails and Drupal
I've now been working professionally in Drupal for a year and have learned a lot about it; I have some patches into contrib but I've not really done...
Drupal
How We Upgraded Metal Toad to HTML5 and Drupal 7
Our new site design is live, so if you're reading this in a feed reader, please click on through!