Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad’s Process to a Brand Refresh
Why a Brand Refresh? In early November 2015, Metal Toad began the wo
Business
The Currency of Culture
At the end of the day we need to operate viable businesses, and we all know there are many ways to get there. So much is said about culture and its...
Artificial Intelligence
Code Quality
One of Metal Toad’s continuing goals for developers centers around mastery.
Git
Golang Environment Configuration
I know that in my previous post, mocking API's in Golang, I said I would talk about testing, but I lied. To your face.
Drupal
Avoiding Drupal 7 #AJAX Pitfalls
Avoid common pitfalls in Drupal 7 AJAX functionality with tips for better accessibility, naming conventions, and effective callback usage.
Business
Love Should Not Be a Four-Letter Word for Software Development Companies
Sometimes in high tech companies, the focus is mainly on the numbers (financial, hours, etc.), but that really misses the fact that human beings – no...
Artificial Intelligence
A Sense of Software Craftsmanship
When leaders view software development as an assembly line, they expose themselves to a lot of pain: overages, missed timelines, and disappointed...
Artificial Intelligence
ReactJS Architecture (3 of 3): Proper React Component Structure
The point I’d like to get across in this post is why I structure React components the way that I do for this architecture. It pairs nicely with the...
Design
Design as a System
Enhance your web projects by adopting a design system to improve user experience, consistency, and efficiency.
Artificial Intelligence
URL Routing for a Decoupled App, with Angular 2 and Django
Lately, I have worked on a few projects where a single-page Angular app is contained within a site built on a server-side framework like Django.
Automotive & Trucking
Industry Disruption: It's All Our Fault
Uber and Darwin are getting a bad rap for killing off the taxi industry. They are innocent.
Business
Notes: An Agile Project Manager’s Critical Asset
Effective note-taking is essential for Agile project management, preserving crucial meeting details and ensuring project success.
Drupal
Science is Beautiful: The New Schrodinger.com
Discover how Metal Toad collaborated with Schrödinger to create a robust, feature-rich Drupal 7 site, enhancing biological sciences online.
Business
Finding My Thing: Part 1
Coming from a strict design engineering background and working in the realm of manufactured products, I have had a steep learning curve in the tech...
Mocking API's in Golang... for fun AND profit!
Modern applications are increasingly distributed, regularly requiring access to an array of systems controlled by 3rd, 4th and 5th parties.
SaaS Application
Angular 2: Using the HTTP Service to Write Data to an API
Update, November 27, 2017: This post explains the Http service used in Angular 2. This is now deprecated in favor of the newer HttpClient released in...
Artificial Intelligence
User Story Insights Using Google Sheets
By using Google Sheets as a tool to glean metrics on user stories, Product Owners and Product Managers can increase the probability of project...
Artificial Intelligence
UNFI Launches a new Product Information Manager
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) launched an incredibly sophisticated Product Information Manager (PIM) for Blue Marb
Artificial Intelligence
Ziba.com Reborn
Metal Toad has been blessed to work with some of the best design partners in the industry, not the least of which is Ziba.
Business
How to Handle an Executive Informal Chat
I am writing this blog to those who work on the frontline but every once in a while find themselves in a conversation with an executive.
Artificial Intelligence
Burn all the Foosball Tables
A colleague of mine attended a marketing seminar. One of the speakers, a Senior Executive, made the comment that she would not do business with a...
Drupal
What I Learned Today: Views Plugin Debugging
As I've said before in my custom views filter handlers tutorial, views is amazing. Today I was writing a custom style plugin.
Artificial Intelligence
Process Maps for Empowerment: Why Visual Business Processes are Important
While I was growing up my dad worked at a paper mill in central Minnesota.
Design
Client Escalations - A Chance to Shine
When your client escalates an issue to your organization, it can be very stressful, but it can also be a chance to shine as an organization if the...
Artificial Intelligence
The Problem with Scope Creep in an Agile Shop
Scope creep is a huge risk factor to a project going off the rails. It’s also diabolically difficult to measure.