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Metal Toad Among Oregon's Best Workplaces
It is with great humility that I serve as Metal Toad spokesman in a very proud moment.
Blog
Media & Entertainment
What I Did Over the Weekend
Join me as I recount my exhilarating weekend at the Global Game Jam, where creativity and coding collide to create innovative games in just 48 hours.
Mobile Development
Continuous Delivery for Enterprise on iOS
Learn to set up continuous deployment for iOS using HockeyApp, including installation, configuration, and automation of build uploads.
Mobile Development
Short-circuiting SpriteBuilder to use Cocos2d-swift Programmatically
The goal is to create a project with SpriteBuilder and then not use the nice GUI and ccb files that it
JavaScript
Running a Persistant Node.js Server on an Arduino Yún
We recently had occasion to set up a Node.js web server on an Arduino Yún. It's a bit more complicated than we thought when we set out, so it seemed...
JavaScript
How I learned to stop worrying and love the code
Learn how to embrace coding, overcome frustrations, and access valuable resources for mastering Objective-C and iOS development in this insightful...
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AWS Cross-Account Roles and Consolidated Billing
Amazon Web Service recently introduced support for cross-account ro
Database
Full Stack Basics for the Non-Developer
Discover the essential layers of web development from a non-developer's perspective, covering developers, local environments, repositories, servers,...
Design
Analytics-driven responsive web design planning
Discover how analytics-driven web design planning can optimize user experience by focusing on fluid layouts and breakpoints rather than specific...
Design
iOS Continous Integration for Enterprise
Learn how to set up iOS Continuous Integration with Xcode Server, fetching pods, injecting certificates, and managing provisioning profiles for...
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2015 Q1 Challenge
As mentioned in the Projects At Work podcast with Dave Prior, we talked abo
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Cloud Architecture: AWS CloudFormation
In my previous blog series, Evolution of a Custom Cloud, I went over how our base design for a custom cloud has improved and how we setup our current...
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ToadCast 029
For ToadCast 29 I interview Dave Prior, Project Manager extraordinaire!
Business
On Manual Process & Reporting
Manual project reporting ensures context and accuracy in data, enhancing proactive management and risk identification.
Business
B2B Communication. By Writing on Windows. With Markers.
“At Metal Toad, we do things differently.”
Business
The Metal Toad Difference, A LadyToad's Perspective
Let me start by getting this out of the way and speaking frankly about being a female professional working in technology. There are very few of us,...
Business
The Toads Know How to Throw a Party
On December 4th, 2014, the Toads hosted an Open House to celebrate our recent move into the fourth floor of the historic Yeon Building in downtown...
Drupal
Drupal 8 Migrations, part 4: Migrating Nodes from Drupal 7
Drupal 8 provides a flexible, plugin-based architecture for migrating data into a site. In Part 3 of this series, we explored how to migrate...
SaaS Application
Drupal 8 Migrations, part 3: Migrating Taxonomies from Drupal 7
Drupal 8 provides a flexible, plugin-based architecture for migrating data into a site. In Part 2 of this series, we explored how to migrate users...
Business
Metal Toad Mentorship Saturdays
Metal Toad Mentorship Saturdays are a place for people of all skill levels and development disciplines to get help and advice on their careers and...
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CoverOregon goes Open Source
Ten months since my open letter to Oregon Governor Kitzhaber, challenging him to fix CoverOregon and to use more local companies and more open so
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Covering our Apple Assets
Whenever a programmer and a designer get together they need to agree on a common language. That often involves mock-ups, aspect ratios, points,...
SaaS Application
Drupal 8 Migrations, part 2: Migrating users from a Drupal 7 site
In this article, we will be building a custom migration which will import users from a Drupal 7 site into a Drupal 8 site. The migration will include...
Drupal
Migrating Content into Drupal 8
Discover how Drupal 8's built-in migration system simplifies the process of importing content from various sources, including Drupal 6 and 7, into...