Barrett
Barrett Olafson
Director of Web Development
Barrett is a Director of Web Development with a background as a developer with experience in PHP, Perl, Linux and MySQL. He is a devout follower of Drupal, and uses his experience to make sure projects at Metal Toad run smoothly.
He has managed numerous successful projects for companies such as Sony Pictures Television, LimeWire, the Linux Foundation, the Emmys and Verizon, along with numerous advertising and design agencies.
As a holder of a degree in Meteorology from the Florida State University, he also considers himself a severe weather aficionado and self-proclaimed "weather dork".
Barrett is also a world-renowned kickball star, enjoys outdoor activities, perusing XKCD, and considers himself to be an excellent judge of characters.
Recent blog posts:
- NTP out of sync?
- Trouble with Drupal, MySQL and non UTF-8 formats
- Autocomplete, clearing form values and Drupal form fields
- Validating multiple drupal form fields and only outputting one erro
- Using PHP/MySQL w/Drupal to update missing Google Geocode data
- Drupal/AJAX: Exercise caution when using special foreign characters
- A Drupal version of chicken vs. egg: external API content fetching and cron failures
