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The Open Source Apprenticeship Model
Addressing the software industry's workforce shortage through an open-source apprenticeship model that benefits employers, workers, and the tech...
For innovative work: Agile is about delighting customers, Waterfall about CYA (Cover Your A**)
For innovative work: Agile is about delighting customers, Waterfall about CYA (Cover Your A**)
Teams Make Their Sprint Commitment
One cornerstone of scrum is the team sprint commitment. A team must make their sprint commitment in order for the business to have faith in the team...
Brand Strategy Planning Tips for a New Year
3 Fundamental Underpinnings for Successful Brand Planning
The Launch of Swift 2.0
Ever since Grace Hopper came up with the A language programmers have been trying to create new languages and processes that make it easier to do work...
Giving Back
We recently announced our first charitable partner at Metal Toad. The Toads had been asking... How can we get involved?
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect: Now What?
A former Toad recently asked my opinion about this article:OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell
Commitment to Diversity
Metal Toad commits to diversity by signing the Portland Tech Diversity pledge and the actionable steps to improve representation in the tech industry.
Portland Should Welcome Growth, Not Run From It
Metal Toad recently shared an infographic on Facebook that illustrate
NFS Performance on AWS
Evaluating the performance and cost of AWS EFS, GlusterFS, and SoftNAS Cloud for NFS solutions in AWS environments to identify the best choice.
Metal Toad at WWDC
This past week, a couple of us at Metal Toad traveled down to San Francisco for WWDC and AltConf.
Force Touch for Safari in Javascript
First I explored Force Click on the Mac. Now it is on the web with javascript in Safari.
Metal Toad Among Oregon's Best Workplaces
It is with great humility that I serve as Metal Toad spokesman in a very proud moment.
AWS Cross-Account Roles and Consolidated Billing
Amazon Web Service recently introduced support for cross-account ro
2015 Q1 Challenge
As mentioned in the Projects At Work podcast with Dave Prior, we talked abo
Cloud Architecture: AWS CloudFormation
Discover how AWS CloudFormation revolutionizes cloud architecture by automating resource creation, reducing errors, and enhancing the building custom...
ToadCast 029
For ToadCast 29 I interview Dave Prior, Project Manager extraordinaire!
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
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,...
Why Portland will be the Next Tech Hub
The demand for software continues to rise. I've written before on the current workforce gap and how that gap will be filled through vocational...
Seeing Long Term Technology Adoption as Evolution
Much like an evolutionary tree our goal in technology adoption is too continue to move forward and evolve, rather than getting caught in a dead end....
The Challenge to Innovation
Recently inspired by Peter Thiel's excellent book Zero to One, I've been reflecting on the software industry as the preeminent place where we can...
Evolution of the Custom Cloud: Part 1 "Architecting the Cloud"
Last year Metal Toad launched its Custom Cloud Service.
A Symbol of Culture
Cultural anthropologists in the 60s started a study known as “Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology”.