Evaluating the performance and cost of AWS EFS, GlusterFS, and SoftNAS Cloud for NFS solutions in AWS environments to identify the best choice.
So if you didn’t know, Metal Toad has been growing an AWS Managed Services hosting business.
This past week, a couple of us at Metal Toad traveled down to San Francisco for WWDC and AltConf.
First I explored Force Click on the Mac. Now it is on the web with javascript in Safari.
It is with great humility that I serve as Metal Toad spokesman in a very proud moment.
Amazon Web Service recently introduced support for cross-account ro
As mentioned in the Projects At Work podcast with Dave Prior, we talked abo
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...
For ToadCast 29 I interview Dave Prior, Project Manager extraordinaire!
Data automation has been popular business buzzword jargon as of late, and to some extent, rightfully so!
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
Whenever a programmer and a designer get together they need to agree on a common language. That often involves mock-ups, aspect ratios, points,...
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...
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....
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...
Last year Metal Toad launched its Custom Cloud Service.
Cultural anthropologists in the 60s started a study known as “Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology”.
As part of our project manager application process, we ask applicants to respond to a number of questions about themselves focused on their approach...
What's the best way to learn programming for beginners? What makes the difference between the people who knock things out of the park vs those who...
Here in Portland we have people who brew beer and many more who drink it! Between the brewing and consuming of it, there is the overlooked step of...
Up today is a brief post to share our project timeline template.
Welcome to the first part of a two part article on a terrible way to use node references, how it was fixed, and the troubles implementing the...
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of attending Portland’s fourth TEDx event at the Keller Auditorium. Known as “ideas worth spreading,” TED...
Toadcast 22 hosted an All-Star cast including: Dave Bellous, co-owner of Yellow Pencil, Jacob Redding, Open Source Manager at Accenture's Emerging...
With the highly publicized Heartbleed vulnerability this week, a vulnerabi