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Why Software Still Looks Like a Frat House
Software has a bad rap as being a white/asian-male-dominated industry.
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Code Quality
One of Metal Toad’s continuing goals for developers centers around mastery.
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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
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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
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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...
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UNFI Launches a new Product Information Manager
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) launched an incredibly sophisticated Product Information Manager (PIM) for Blue Marb
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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.
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Bringing More Magic to the Software Apprenticeship Program
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with Aaron Bridges, Abby Miles and
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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What I Learned Today: Check Your Default Google Analytics Settings
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The Sprint Commitment as a Dev Team’s Shield
I was thrilled when I first learned and began applying Agile software development practices. Finally, I was able to get off the painful
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Creating Culture
A few weeks ago, I joined some of my Toads at the first TechTown Change
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Anyone Can Program
Anyone with a child under the age of 19 knows that "anyone can cook." Thanks to Ratatouille and the folks at Pixar, a whole generation of
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Revisiting First Mover (Dis)Advantage
In 2001, the Harvard Business Review published “First Mover Disadvantage” by William B
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Growing the Software Community
There is a saying that is growing in popularity in business: "every company is a software company".
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How a Toad Writes a Blog Post
“Don't procrastinate. If you want to blog, then blog.” - Fritz Chery