Drupal
The Drupal Entityqueue Module
If you're familiar with the Nodequeue module and you wanted to create a queue of other entity types, like users or terms, then you
Artificial Intelligence
Stage Gating to Avoid Project Failure
One of the newer processes we’ve implemented at Metal Toad is that of stage gating.
Drupal
Some reflections on working with new-to-the-company Junior Developers
It all started the other day with a git pull from the development branch of one of our projects.
Drupal
What I Learned Today: Drupal Behat Scenario Cleanup
I've been doing a lot more Behat testing recently.
Artificial Intelligence
ToadCast 019 - An Interview With The Pug Master Himself, Tom Martin
In ToadCast 019, Metal Toad PM Matt Payton helps me interview Tom Martin who was recently promoted to Senior Development Strategist at Metal Toad. We...
Mobile Development
Switching from Apple OSX apps to Google Apps in the Browser
I’ve been using the Apple OSX suite of productivity tools (Safari, iCal, Mail) for as long as I’ve been using Macs (PowerBook G4 in ‘03).
Drupal
What I Learned Today: Drupal Behat Breakpoints
Today I learned that the Drupal Behat Extension provides an extremely useful step definition for debugging. Breakpoints!
Project Management
Sound "Bytes" From The Digital PM Summit
Highlights from the inaugural Digital PM Summit in Philadelphia, learn key PM strategies, expert insights, and the role of the digital project...
Project Management
My Takeaways on the Digital Project Management Summit in Philadelphia.
Insights from the inaugural Digital Project Management Summit, focusing on communication, collaboration, and skills essential for project management.
SaaS Application
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...
Drupal
Fixing a segmentation fault in Drupal
Fixing a Drupal segmentation fault using XCode Instruments and Runkit to debug PCRE-related PHP crashes and improve code stability.
Git
ToadCast 018! PM Summit
The ToadCast has been revived! I talked with Adam Edgerton to discuss the Digital PM Summit.
Business
Metal Toad at the Digital PM Summit
Metal Toad attends the inaugural Digital PM Summit in Philadelphia to engage with industry leaders and enhance their project management processes.
AWS DevOps
Upgrade to PHP 5.5 on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Rapidly install PHP 5.5 on OS X 10.8 by compiling from source, including essential libraries. Follow our step-by-step guide for a quick setup.
AWS DevOps
Keeping track of page load times in Munin
Monitoring web page load times efficiently using a custom Ruby script for Munin to avoid timeouts and ensure comprehensive resource loading.
SaaS Application
Bucket policy for friendly file exchange on Amazon S3
We sometimes need to exchange huge files with our customers and partners (too big to fit within the typical storage limits of Basecamp, or the free...
PHP
Regex for Quoted String with escapable quotes
Explore advanced Regex techniques for handling quoted strings with escapable quotes, with practical insights for Behat users and developers.
Artificial Intelligence
The Project Manager Bill of Rights
Following my last blog post on PM Retention, I worked with our team and set about about putting together a Project Manager Bill of Rights to li
Artificial Intelligence
What I Learned Today: Regular Expression Backreferences
This is another post in my challenge to learn something new every day and then share that in a blog post.
Artificial Intelligence
What I Learned Today: Django model_to_dict and Missing Fields
This was actually a couple weeks ago, but it is still fresh enough in my memory that I find it interesting and therefore worth sharing.
Business
The Successful Digital PM, Part 5C: Retention
Strategies for retaining digital project managers, addressing common challenges, and fostering a supportive organizational culture.
Business
Always Learning, Always Sharing
It's always been my motto to never stop learning. I also think it is important to share what you've learned with others. I don't think this could be...
Database
What I Learned Today: MySQL Shell Commands
This is a quick one that I learned from a co-worker.
Business
The Successful Digital PM, Part 5B: Professional Development
Explore strategies for professional development in project management to ensure continuous growth and effective onboarding at Metal Toad.
Artificial Intelligence
The Successful Digital PM, Part 5A: Hiring
Now that I've outlined the major areas to look for in a great Digital PM in previous posts, this post focuses on something equally important: finding...