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...
I've been going around town giving a talk on the history of women in computers.
Why a Brand Refresh? In early November 2015, Metal Toad began the wo
By using Google Sheets as a tool to glean metrics on user stories, Product Owners and Product Managers can increase the probability of project...
We've written in the past about how to select an ethical software vendor, and our commitment to our customers.
Whether you’re running on premise datacenter, using a private or public IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) hosting platform, security is extremely...
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….
How to run multiple concurrent HTTP requests, with the callbacks running only after all of them have completed with Angular 2.
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...
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...
Last year, I wrote a blog about the performance of various NFS Solutions in AWS.
So if you didn’t know, Metal Toad has been growing an AWS Managed Services hosting business.
Since I wrote my first review of CloudFront, Amazon has added support for three essential features...
Amazon Web Service recently introduced support for cross-account ro
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
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...
At Metal Toad we use Capistrano to deploy our projects to their respective servers.
In part 1 we covered our Architecture for the Custom Cloud.
Last year Metal Toad launched its Custom Cloud Service.
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,...
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.
This is a copy of an open letter written to the Governor of Oregon regarding the Oregon health exchange.
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...
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...