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It happens every couple of years or so. There's a a shocking or (dare I say) earth-shaking article that is published.
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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
Analytics-driven responsive web design planning
Discover how analytics-driven web design planning can optimize user experience by focusing on fluid layouts and breakpoints rather than specific...
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.
Artificial Intelligence
A Toad at TEDx Portland
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of attending Portland’s fourth TEDx event at the Keller Auditorium. Known as “ideas worth spreading,” TED...
Artificial Intelligence
Angular services and useable patterns
AngularJS is a relatively new javascript framework that is taking the web application development world by storm.
Artificial Intelligence
Stage Gating to Avoid Project Failure
One of the newer processes we’ve implemented at Metal Toad is that of stage gating.
Design
Metal Toad Project Manager Profile: Katie Pitello
As part of our project manager application process, we ask applicants to respond to a number of questions about themselves focused on their approach...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad and Kapow Launch Ken Burns America
Ken Burns America launched this week on the PBS.org website. In partnering with Kapow, Metal Toad took on the task of modifying and patching the...
Database
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Knowing Enough Programming to be Dangerous is Not a Good Thing.
First, let me start be saying I believe that everyone should learn how to program, the same way everyone should learn to read and write. In today's...
Business
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,...
Artificial Intelligence
How (not) to think about Responsive Design.
The most important question we should ask is, "to what are we responding?" It's not too far to jump from that question to the point I want to drill...
Artificial Intelligence
The Successful Digital PM - Part 1: A Digital Project Manger's Role
The first in my series on becoming a successful digital PM and the role they take on to fit their team dynamic. From project manager to customer...