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...
It all started the other day with a git pull from the development branch of one of our projects.
The ToadCast has been revived! I talked with Adam Edgerton to discuss the Digital PM Summit.
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...
Monitoring web page load times efficiently using a custom Ruby script for Munin to avoid timeouts and ensure comprehensive resource loading.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Here is part two of my multi-part post on what it takes to be a successful digital project manager.
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,...
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...
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.
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
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...
People often ask me where the name for my company came from. Lots of brand names have no meaning or names that have little in a modern context. Coke,...
The ToadCast episode featuring discussions on Git, Drupal, WYSIWYG editors, and more with Dan Linn and Dylan Tack.
Manage DNS with TinyDNS Puppet module. Learn setup, configuration, and entry management for seamless internal server operations.
At tonight's PDX WordPress Dev meetup (thanks for the pizza Digital Trends) Daniel Bachhuber had some questions about benchmarking a plugin....
Quickly detect iPad versions in PhoneGap apps with a handy plugin, ensuring compatibility across different iPad models.
If you've felt yourself stagnating as a programmer recently, I have a cure for you. That's right, a ticket out of the back room or cubicle you've...
There was a discussion around the office recently about using Textile on our blog. I personally dislike Textile (and similar pseudo-markup), for a...
I switched my Unix shell to zsh a few months ago and overall I love it. But sometimes the autocorrect can be a little *too* helpful.
Web design and development agencies are lacking in code review practices, and our collective clients are suffering as a result.