We live in a man-made (or woman-made) world. Everything not sprung by nature was created by a human and has been designed.
A good framework for most people to help understand these costs is to look at buying a website like buying a house. After you've bought it you still...
I have worked with dozens of projects over my career, on platforms ranging from Drupal to Yii to Django to AngularJS
In my last article, I addressed the age old question "how much does a website cost?" from the stand
"How much does a website cost?" These are six words — when spoken in sequence — that most web developers dread.
In February a few Toads got to travel to Denmark to begin discovery on a new internet of things (IoT) project with a large wind turbine manufacturer.
Some people see software and tech as an industry. Seen on it's own it is a whole category of employment including massive companies like Google,...
If you were to go out and buy a new piece of furniture, would you prefer a store that offered a great product and treated you poorly or the opposite?
Not to long ago, I was asked to fill some big shoes.
I've been going around town giving a talk on the history of women in computers. During my research, I came across so very many women I’d never heard...
Fun fact: The creator of BackstopJS has referenced this blog post as the recommended tutorial for BackstopJS v2!
I've been working with relational databases for a long time.
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...
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
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 recently read an article written on the craft of software development and that got me thinking about how we as a societ
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...
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
By using Google Sheets as a tool to glean metrics on user stories, Product Owners and Product Managers can increase the probability of project...