For most casual website owners, it’s often easy to simply use a hosting provider with built in support for their CMS and integrating analytics....
This is the second part of a two-part series exploring the use of the Angular 6 HttpClient to make API calls against a Django back-end using Django...
If you’re going to spend two long days frying a Raspberry Pi and fiddling with (very) finicky electronics, is there any better way to do it than...
Curious about how to make API calls with Angular 6 and the HttpClient service? This tutorial will show you some techniques for building a decoupled...
Angular 4.3 introduced a new HttpClient service, which is a replacement for the Http service from Angular 2. It works mostly the same as the old...
Django 2.0 is in beta now. It's expected to be released in December 2017. The question remains, is the rest of the world going to be ready? Let's...
I have worked with dozens of projects over my career, on platforms ranging from Drupal to Yii to Django to AngularJS
Lately, I have worked on a few projects where a single-page Angular app is contained within a site built on a server-side framework like Django.
Update, November 27, 2017: This post explains the Http service used in Angular 2. This is now deprecated in favor of the newer HttpClient released in...
Here at Metal Toad, we are starting to use NPM as a task runner to automate our development processes.
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
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,...
First off, Drupal has had a great year and a great quarter.
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...
This was actually a couple weeks ago, but it is still fresh enough in my memory that I find it interesting and therefore worth sharing.
There's no rocket science behind this post. Just like a construction project manager is probably going to want to know a thing or two about...
This is a quick example of how I got Periodic Tasks to work using Celery without Django.
Using Apache Solr with Drupal is fairly simple thanks to the apachesolr module, but recently we were tasked with making Solr a vital component of
On any given month, Metal Toad Media will distribute the work for 25-30 different clients across 10 different development resources. The majority of...
First Episode Here we go! The first ever Metal Toad Media podcast: Toadcast! This is a weekly podcast dealing with the web, technology, and anything...
If you don't know already, the framework is dead.