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The Emmys Leverage AWS
How Metal Toad scaled the Emmy's website using AWS to handle millions of hits during live events, ensuring seamless performance and 100% uptime.
ToadCast 020 - Joaquin and Robinson
For Toadcast 20 our President Joaquin interviews our newest PM Robinson where they talk about tech, being the new guy, metal bands, and bird poop.
Metal Toad Templates Part 2: Our Agile Burndown Google Spreadsheet
Here’s the first template post in this series, following my opinion piece on when to use a PM tool v
Ruby, Drupal and a tadpole's swimlane
Exploring the transition from Ruby on Rails to Drupal, highlighting the differences in frameworks, database communication, and testing, while...
Metal Toad Templates Part 1: Spreadsheets versus PM Tools
I’m starting a new series dedicated to sharing project management templates we’ve created and frequently use at Metal Toad.
AWS Managed Services Dashboard - Part 2: Tools for Logging
Explore how Logstash, Redis, StatsD, and Graphite power Metal Toad's managed services dashboard for data visualization and logging in this insightful...
Creating a Custom Glossary Filter in Django
Learn how to create a custom glossary filter in Django, allowing users to filter lists of data by the first letter of titles or names.
AWS Managed Services Dashboard - Part 1: The New Dashboard
Metal Toad unveils a streamlined Managed Services Dashboard, integrating tools like Graphite, Pingdom, and Nagios for efficient server monitoring and...
How To: Create a form show/hide password system in AngularJS
Numerous times during working with AngularJS there have been these moments of, oh, wow... OH, now that's cool... wow...
Angular services and useable patterns
Discover effective patterns for using AngularJS services in your web applications, from singleton instances to reusable components and hybrid designs.
Drupal 7 Tutorial: Using Entityqueue
Now that Entityqueue has been released, I wanted to give a quick tutorial on how to use it.
What I Learned Today: Drupal #attached Awesomeness
Learn how to enhance your Drupal elements by using the #attached key to add CSS, JavaScript, and more, making your pages efficient and dynamic.
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
Stage Gating to Avoid Project Failure
One of the newer processes we’ve implemented at Metal Toad is that of stage gating.
Why More People Select WordPress than Drupal to Build Websites
Why do more people choose WordPress over Drupal for website building? Explore the factors of economics, scarcity, and familiarity influencing this...
Going Paper-less with Google Drive
As a technology company, we tend to go full-bore with any tools that can move us away from paper. When Google Drive (formerly Google Apps) made...
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.
What I Learned Today: Drupal Behat Scenario Cleanup
I've been doing a lot more Behat testing recently.
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...
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).
What I Learned Today: Drupal Behat Breakpoints
Today I learned that the Drupal Behat Extension provides an extremely useful step definition for debugging. Breakpoints!
Professional Skills from Raising a Newborn
This last month my wife and I had a new baby. Since this was my second child, I spent less time panicking and more time preparing for the bundle of...
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...
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.