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
Blog
Artificial Intelligence
Stage Gating to Avoid Project Failure
One of the newer processes we’ve implemented at Metal Toad is that of stage gating.
Content Management System (CMS)
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...
Artificial Intelligence
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...
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!
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...
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.
Media & Entertainment
The Emmys Chooses Drupal 7
For those who watched the Primetime Emmys last night the content management system (CMS) used to support the website probably didn't matter all that...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad and Kapow Launch Ken Burns America
Ken Burns America launched this week on the PBS.org website. In partnering with Kapow, Metal Toad took on the task of modifying and patching the...
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
Drupal
Puppet Labs Chooses Drupal
Puppet Labs launched a responsive website using Drupal, showcasing advanced features like drag-and-drop GUI and Panels, highlighting Drupal's...
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.