Database
What I Learned Today: MySQL Shell Commands
This is a quick one that I learned from a co-worker.
Blog
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...
Database
It's still not a F&*$ing iPhone.
So here it is, the post about why I am switching from an Android to an iPhone, with just weeks before the new iPhone 5S release. First let me clarify...
Drupal
Drupal Debugging: Clues from the Database
Have you ever chased a bug down a rabbit hole and spent a few hours down there only to come back up for air thinking "why, oh why does the bug taunt...
Project Management
The Successful Digital PM, Part 4: Knowledge
Key knowledge areas every digital project manager should master, from CMS basics to marketing strategies, to excel in their role and drive project...
Artificial Intelligence
The Successful Digital PM, Part 3: Traits
I hate to break it to you, but regardless of desire, you may not be cut out to be a project manager. There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle of PM...
Artificial Intelligence
Knowing Enough Programming to be Dangerous is Not a Good Thing.
First, let me start be saying I believe that everyone should learn how to program, the same way everyone should learn to read and write. In today's...
Artificial Intelligence
The Successful Digital PM, Part 2: Self-Process
Here is part two of my multi-part post on what it takes to be a successful digital project manager.
Business
Programmers: To be considered a professional, you need to act like one.
Learn how essential professional behaviors and effective communication can elevate the role of programmers, making them assets in any organization.
Drupal
Sound Bytes from Drupalcon Portland
Insights from Drupalcon Portland: Key takeaways on content strategy, project management, and the evolving role of CMS in the digital landscape.
Drupal
DrupalCon Pre-Show and announcements
Here we go! Portland's Drupalcon is here. Here is a quick update about some of the exciting things that Metal Toad is bringing to the event. Stop by...
Business
Site Administration: Remember the Admin
Meet Jake. Jake administers a Drupal site. Jake is not a developer, nor does he want to be. Jake does not care about field formatters, image styles,...
Mobile Development
How (not) to think about Responsive Design.
Reimagine responsive design by focusing on real-world user interactions like touch, pinch, and scroll, rather than just window resizing. Enhance your...
Artificial Intelligence
The Successful Digital PM - Part 1: A Digital Project Manger's Role
The first in my series on becoming a successful digital PM and the role they take on to fit their team dynamic. From project manager to customer...
Artificial Intelligence
Passing Page Arguments to View Panes
Recently I was faced with the task of passing off multiple page arguments to a view pane, which seems simple enough after you have done it once, but...
The Toadcast
ToadCast 016 - Home Brew edition
Discover the essentials of home brewing with Metal Toad experts, covering beer basics, equipment, and tips for both beer and wine making.
Drupal
ToadCast 015 - ECommerce
Joining me for Toadcast 15 is Tom Martin to discuss ecommerce. That's right, a show all about a single topic!
AWS DevOps
Fixing "no such file" error in Capistrano upload()
Resolving Capistrano upload errors by utilizing the :mkdir option in net-sftp to ensure target directories are created during deployments.
Drupal
Receiving Git Attribution for Your Drupal.org Patches
If you contribute patches to the Drupal issue queues, you often spend a lot of time and hard work getting that patch through the review process.
Database
Metal Toad University #10: Real Time Word Press
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...
Git
Metal Toad University #9: Going Live
This week we took our site live, but before we did that one of our students Lewis Notestine had created a new theme for our site: Spa
JavaScript
Writing a simple Sublime Text plugin.
For the most part I like to keep my code editors as light and vanilla as possible.
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad University #8: The Wolf Theme
This session had us finding new images to create a new theme for our site. Once our new wolf images and patterns were created and exported, we went...
Metal Toad University #7: First Site Done!
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