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Drupal 8 Entity API cheat sheet
Wait, is it "$node->title" or "$node->title->value"? How do I write an EntityQuery again? Yeah, I can never remember, either.
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machine learning
Q4 Hackathon Theme: Machine Learning & Data Science
I was dusting off my copy of Ray Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines tod
The Cloud
Origin Protection with AWS WAF & Shield
Amazon has been steadily improving their CloudFront CDN offering with WAF (Web Application Firewall) capabilities. This is a great feature, however...
The Cloud
Using Serverless Config to Deploy an AWS CloudWatch Dashboard
My team’s most recent project has been really interesting - it’s a JavaScript project that includes using the Serverless Framework to deploy a...
AWS
Metal Toad office in Los Angeles
We are excited to announce that coming in June 2017, Metal Toad will be opening a permanent office in the Los Angeles metro. For years Metal Toad...
Interviews
Digital Project Management Apprenticeships
Metal Toad has the deep belief that apprenticeships in tech can hone new skills introduced in code school and provide real world experiences that can...
Artificial Intelligence
History of Computer Girls, Part 1: Ada!
I've been going around town giving a talk on the history of women in computers.
Interviews
Metal Toad’s Process to a Brand Refresh
Why a Brand Refresh? In early November 2015, Metal Toad began the wo
Agile
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...
AWS
A Time for Movements
We've written in the past about how to select an ethical software vendor, and our commitment to our customers.
Artificial Intelligence
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...
AWS
Thank You Frontline Software Development Managers
While I could applaud many of the excellent VP and CTOs in technology, I would like us all to take a moment to give thanks to some unsung heros….
AWS
Angular 2: HTTP, Observables, and concurrent data loading
How to run multiple concurrent HTTP requests, with the callbacks running only after all of them have completed with Angular 2.
AWS
AngularJS: Adding a user-friendly default option to ng-options
Angular's ng-options directive provides a nifty way to build a select element based on an array in your scope. It can even bind the options to...
The Cloud
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...
Artificial Intelligence
NFS Performance on AWS
Last year, I wrote a blog about the performance of various NFS Solutions in AWS.
The Cloud
Using Monitoring to meet Managed Services SLAs
So if you didn’t know, Metal Toad has been growing an AWS Managed Services hosting business.
AWS
Amazon CloudFront with Drupal 8
Since I wrote my first review of CloudFront, Amazon has added support for three essential features...
Artificial Intelligence
AWS Cross-Account Roles and Consolidated Billing
Amazon Web Service recently introduced support for cross-account ro
The Cloud
Full Stack Basics for the Non-Developer
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
The Cloud
Cloud Architecture: AWS CloudFormation
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...
AWS
Capistrano Deploy to dynamic AWS EC2
At Metal Toad we use Capistrano to deploy our projects to their respective servers.
The Cloud
Evolution of the Custom Cloud: Part 2 "Building the Cloud"
In part 1 we covered our Architecture for the Custom Cloud.