This year’s hackathon was all about the Internet of Things (IoT)—pulling data from the real world and sending it to the cloud, then finding ways to...
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...
Recently, I helped spearhead our department’s adoption of centralized static code analysis.
I've always been a map geek, dating back to the 1980s when I would take a road atlas and some tracing paper and draw in my own road network. And one...
Learn about AWS Snowflake Architecture, data handling and connecting to Snowflake, how to set up a Snowflake DB, and load Data from the pros at Metal...
The Raspberry Pi is great if you want a dedicated device for a task that you can turn on, get it to do its thing and leave it alone.
Background and problem description In late 2016 we were approached with an opportunity to build a data pipeline for one of our large clients.
Over the past year I've been building a cloud-based data pipeline for a client focusing on IoT data aggregation.
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
I've been going around town giving a talk on the history of women in computers.
At Metal Toad, we have several bots integrated into Slack.
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.
Here at Metal Toad, we are starting to use NPM as a task runner to automate our development processes.
The software industry is facing a workforce shortage of unprecedented proportions.
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
The demand for software continues to rise. I've written before on the current workforce gap and how that gap will be filled through vocational...
Recently inspired by Peter Thiel's excellent book Zero to One, I've been reflecting on the software industry as the preeminent place where we can...
First off, Drupal has had a great year and a great quarter.
For the most part I like to keep my code editors as light and vanilla as possible.
This is a quick example of how I got Periodic Tasks to work using Celery without Django.
On Sunday, we welcomed Women Who Hack, a monthly gathering "for women who want to hack on projects with or around other women.
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...