Discover how Metal Toad's shift to the Scrumban methodology enhanced productivity and client satisfaction by blending Scrum and Kanban practices.
Discover the pivotal role Ada Lovelace played in the history of computing and her groundbreaking contributions as the first computer programmer.
At Metal Toad, we have several bots integrated into Slack.
Why a Brand Refresh? In early November 2015, Metal Toad began the wo
Ever since I had the privilege of attending DevOps Days Portland, I have been
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...
Software has a bad rap as being a white/asian-male-dominated industry.
One of Metal Toad’s continuing goals for developers centers around mastery.
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.
I recently read an article written on the craft of software development and that got me thinking about how we as a societ
Avoid common pitfalls in Drupal 7 AJAX functionality with tips for better accessibility, naming conventions, and effective callback usage.
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...
When leaders view software development as an assembly line, they expose themselves to a lot of pain: overages, missed timelines, and disappointed...
A number of industries are going through a skills gap crisis - or are looking down the barrel of one.
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...
Enhance your web projects by adopting a design system to improve user experience, consistency, and efficiency.
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.
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
Uber and Darwin are getting a bad rap for killing off the taxi industry. They are innocent.
Effective note-taking is essential for Agile project management, preserving crucial meeting details and ensuring project success.
Discover how Metal Toad collaborated with Schrödinger to create a robust, feature-rich Drupal 7 site, enhancing biological sciences online.
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...
Modern applications are increasingly distributed, regularly requiring access to an array of systems controlled by 3rd, 4th and 5th parties.
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...
By using Google Sheets as a tool to glean metrics on user stories, Product Owners and Product Managers can increase the probability of project...