Business
Finding My Thing: Part 1
Coming from a strict design engineering background and working in the realm of manufactured products, I have had a steep learning curve in the tech...
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Artificial Intelligence
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Ziba.com Reborn
Metal Toad has been blessed to work with some of the best design partners in the industry, not the least of which is Ziba.
Artificial Intelligence
Bringing More Magic to the Software Apprenticeship Program
Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting with Aaron Bridges, Abby Miles and
Design
Client Escalations - A Chance to Shine
When your client escalates an issue to your organization, it can be very stressful, but it can also be a chance to shine as an organization if the...
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...
Artificial Intelligence
UX Immersion: Interactions 2016 Conference
This year I had the pleasure of attending the UX Immersion: Interactions Conference held on April 18–20, 2016 in San Diego.
Artificial Intelligence
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...
Business
How to Select an Ethical Software Vendor
Many software firms believe that building great software is important. We believe it is important to take it one step further by committing to great...
Artificial Intelligence
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...
Business
Are You Prepared?
It happens every couple of years or so. There's a a shocking or (dare I say) earth-shaking article that is published.
Artificial Intelligence
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
Business
Flying Toads!
For the second straight year, Toads filled the Oregon skies. Not like in P.T. Anderson’s award-winning film Magnolia, but more like tiny dots of...
SaaS Application
Autocomplete Using ActiveAdmin and Rails 3
Autocomplete in ActiveAdmin with nested forms and polymorphic associations in Rails 3 using jQuery UI and Active Model Serializers for dynamic form...
Drupal
Using the Token module to enhance the Editor experience
Enhance your Drupal 7 editor experience with the Token module to easily embed content like galleries and polls, streamlining the content creation...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad Among Oregon's Best Workplaces
It is with great humility that I serve as Metal Toad spokesman in a very proud moment.
Media & Entertainment
What I Did Over the Weekend
Join me as I recount my exhilarating weekend at the Global Game Jam, where creativity and coding collide to create innovative games in just 48 hours.
Database
Full Stack Basics for the Non-Developer
Discover the essential layers of web development from a non-developer's perspective, covering developers, local environments, repositories, servers,...
Design
iOS Continous Integration for Enterprise
Learn how to set up iOS Continuous Integration with Xcode Server, fetching pods, injecting certificates, and managing provisioning profiles for...
Artificial Intelligence
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...
Business
Metal Toad Mentorship Saturdays
Metal Toad Mentorship Saturdays are a place for people of all skill levels and development disciplines to get help and advice on their careers and...
Artificial Intelligence
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,...
Artificial Intelligence
Evolution of the Custom Cloud: Part 1 "Architecting the Cloud"
Last year Metal Toad launched its Custom Cloud Service.