Business
Open Letter to My Future Hire
Are you our next Project Manager hire at Metal Toad? Read this article from VP of Product Victoria Blake to find out.
Blog
Business
Joining Women In Tech
It is with great pride that I have recently accepted a Board position with the non-profit organization Women In Tech (WIT), Portland.
HTML & CSS
A Front-end Build Task With A Living Style Guide, Part 1: SCSS
At Metal Toad our front-end build is important to us. It helps us keep standards consistent and improves the quality of our projects.
Artificial Intelligence
A Better Javascript
I've been thinking a lot about Javascript over the last few months. And not the "How can we architect a better system" type of thinking, but the "Why...
Business
Saying No & Behaving No
My kid is a year and a half old. She is accumulating language at a startling rate. A few weeks ago, she started saying “no.” No has quickly become...
Drupal
Evolving With Our Clients: The Great Scrumban Experiment
Discover how Metal Toad's shift to the Scrumban methodology enhanced productivity and client satisfaction by blending Scrum and Kanban practices.
Business
History of Computer Girls, Part 1: Ada!
Discover the pivotal role Ada Lovelace played in the history of computing and her groundbreaking contributions as the first computer programmer.
Machine Learning
Writing a haiku-detecting bot for Slack
At Metal Toad, we have several bots integrated into Slack.
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad’s Process to a Brand Refresh
Why a Brand Refresh? In early November 2015, Metal Toad began the wo
Artificial Intelligence
What Is DevOps & How to Achieve It
Ever since I had the privilege of attending DevOps Days Portland, I have been
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
Why Software Still Looks Like a Frat House
Software has a bad rap as being a white/asian-male-dominated industry.
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.
Artificial Intelligence
A Vocational Track to Tech Jobs
I recently read an article written on the craft of software development and that got me thinking about how we as a societ
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
When There is a Skills Gap, Industry Needs to Fix It
A number of industries are going through a skills gap crisis - or are looking down the barrel of one.
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.
Artificial Intelligence
Jobs in the Software Industry Aren't Just for Programmers
As anyone who has read a blog post from me over the past two years knows, I am passionate about creating jobs in the software in
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.