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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.
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.
Business
A Time for Movements
We've written in the past about how to select an ethical software vendor, and our commitment to our customers.
Artificial Intelligence
Bringing More Magic to the Software Apprenticeship Program
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with Aaron Bridges, Abby Miles and
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.
Business
Two Years of Great Advice
Creating an Advisory Board transformed our company, enhancing growth, diversity, and organizational maturity. Discover our tips for building a...
Artificial Intelligence
Best Practices For a Secure Cloud Part 1
Whether you’re running on premise datacenter, using a private or public IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) hosting platform, security is extremely...
Artificial Intelligence
UX Immersion: Interactions 2016 Conference
This year I had the pleasure of attending the UX Immersion: Interactions Conference held on April 18–20, 2016 in San Diego.