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Monitorama!
I just attended Monitorama in Portland, and I wanted to talk about my experience!
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DevOps (2)
The Cloud
What Is DevOps & How to Achieve It
Ever since I had the privilege of attending DevOps Days Portland, I have been
Artificial Intelligence
Best Practices For a Secure Cloud Part 1
Whether you’re running on premise datacenter, using a private or public IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) hosting platform, security is extremely...
The Cloud
Full Stack Basics for the Non-Developer
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
Artificial Intelligence
The 2013 Emmys Leverage AWS
When preparing for a big event, it is our job to make sure the general public sees exactly what is expected, and with the help of Amazon Web Service...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad Project Manager Profile: Adam Edgerton
As part of our project manager application process, we ask applicants to respond to a number of questions about themselves focused on their approach...
Continuous integration and deployment - CI/CD
Upgrade to PHP 5.5 on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
The following is a rapid installation of PHP 5.5 on OS X 10.8. This compiles 5.5 from source, including two required libraries and finding the...
DevOps
Keeping track of page load times in Munin
As part of the services we provide for some of our clients, we monitor web page load times. The Munin plugin we were using at the time was this...
AWS
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Puppet Labs Chooses Drupal
Puppet Labs launched with an amazing new responsive website, powered by Drupal.
Artificial Intelligence
The Successful Digital PM, Part 5C: Retention
The final post in my Successful Digital PM series is also both the trickiest for me to write and the one that has been the most eye opening to me as...
Artificial Intelligence
The Successful Digital PM, Part 4: Knowledge
There's no rocket science behind this post. Just like a construction project manager is probably going to want to know a thing or two about...
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...
Drupal
Automated CVS checkouts of Drupal Core + Contrib
If you've built out more than a few Drupal projects, you've probably gone through the same song & dance a number of times - find the most recent...
DevOps
VMWare: Recovering from running out of disk space on the Host machine
If you've ever run out of disk space you know what a pain that is. However when you run out of diskspace on the host machine running VMware, things...
Artificial Intelligence
Adding a directory to subversion, and ignoring the directory contents
Sometimes when committing things to svn you want to commit a directory, but ignore all of the files inside it. Here's how.
DevOps
Removing a Unix sym link
If you try deleting a symbolic link like this: rm -f test/ You get this: rm: cannot remove `test/': Not a directory Same deal if you try to use...