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Evolution of the Custom Cloud: Part 1 "Architecting the Cloud"
Last year Metal Toad launched its Custom Cloud Service.
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Providing Value as a Digital PM
Being a PM can be a bit of an amorphous position, especially at smaller agencies where the job spans part AM, part contract writer, part QA,...
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AWS NAS Test Part 2
Shortly after I wrote AWS NAS Test I was contacted by Zadara Storage. They had some concerns about the data I reported from my test.
Artificial Intelligence
A Call for an Open Source CoverOregon.com
This is a copy of an open letter written to the Governor of Oregon regarding the Oregon health exchange.
Artificial Intelligence
The 2013 Emmys Leverage AWS
When preparing for a big event, it is our job to make sure the general public sees exactly what is expected, and with the help of Amazon Web Service...
The Cloud
The Emmys Chooses Drupal 7
For those who watched the Primetime Emmys last night the content management system (CMS) used to support the website probably didn't matter all that...
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Bucket policy for friendly file exchange on Amazon S3
We sometimes need to exchange huge files with our customers and partners (too big to fit within the typical storage limits of Basecamp, or the free...
Artificial Intelligence
Regex for Quoted String with escapable quotes
Metal Toad is an AWS Managed Services provider.
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You Should be Paying More Than $50/month for Hosting.
In the year 1999, if you ran a business and you had a website, you were ahead of the game.
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It's still not a F&*$ing iPhone.
So here it is, the post about why I am switching from an Android to an iPhone, with just weeks before the new iPhone 5S release. First let me clarify...
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Site Administration: Remember the Admin
Meet Jake. Jake administers a Drupal site. Jake is not a developer, nor does he want to be. Jake does not care about field formatters, image styles,...
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How To Detect Which Element Was Clicked, Using jQuery
Sometimes we would like to find out which particular element (or set of elements) has user clicked on. However, binding click events on each element...
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Using Amazon Cloudfront with Drupal
We like to use our own site to experiment with different technologies. CDN's are nothing new, and Metal Toad has projects running on competing...
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ToadCast 007 - Like a Boss
Here it is! ToadCast #7, I was joined by the owner of Metal Toad Media, Joaquin Lippincott to discuss standards, browsers, Mars rover Curiosity,...
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A beginner's guide to GIT BISECT - The process of elimination
The slowest, most tedious way of finding a bad git commit is something we've all done before. You checkout some old commit, make sure the broken code...
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Pitfalls When Writing a Canvas Game for Android
Recently a client approached Metal Toad to develop a prototype game for Android devices and leaving the option of porting it to other devices open.
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Takeaways from Curve Fitting for Project Estimation
The recent blog post, "A MOET and POET Curve-Fitting Approach to Project Management & Meeting Tim
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With Drupal+Ubercart, be wary of alternative payment gateways
If you are using Ubercart to do ecommerce with Drupal, be sure to use one of the mainstream payment gatways: Authorize.net or Paypal.
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Adding a directory to subversion, and ignoring the directory contents
Sometimes when committing things to svn you want to commit a directory, but ignore all of the files inside it. Here's how.