Git
Git: Always Be Branching (ABB)
Master the Git workflow for efficient Drupal development. Learn branching techniques, handling conflicts, and best practices for pushing changes to...
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Git
Git: Always Be Committing (ABC)
Junior developerslearn the importance of version control and best practices with Git to ensure smooth project workflows and professional growth.
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad Project Manager Profile: Steve Winters
As part of our project manager application process, we ask applicants to respond to a number of questions about themselves focused on their approach...
Artificial Intelligence
Angular services and useable patterns
AngularJS is a relatively new javascript framework that is taking the web application development world by storm.
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...
Design
Metal Toad Project Manager Profile: Katie Pitello
As part of our project manager application process, we ask applicants to respond to a number of questions about themselves focused on their approach...
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.
Git
ToadCast 018! PM Summit
The ToadCast has been revived! I talked with Adam Edgerton to discuss the Digital PM Summit.
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
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...
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 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...
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...
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
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,...
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...
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.
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
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...
Artificial Intelligence
What's in a Brand?
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,...