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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
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The Cloud
Using Monitoring to meet Managed Services SLAs
So if you didn’t know, Metal Toad has been growing an AWS Managed Services hosting business.
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AWS Cross-Account Roles and Consolidated Billing
Amazon Web Service recently introduced support for cross-account ro
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iOS Continous Integration for Enterprise
Updated Oct 19, 2015: Added updates for OS X El Capitan. Updates highlighted in yellow.
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Simple password grants with OAuth 2.0 and Drupal
Like many Drupal developers, we have become big fans of decoupled front-ends using Drupal as a RESTful backend (a.k.a. "headless" Drupal). The myriad...
The Cloud
Evolution of the Custom Cloud: Part 2 "Building the Cloud"
In part 1 we covered our Architecture for the Custom Cloud.
The Cloud
Evolution of the Custom Cloud: Part 1 "Architecting the Cloud"
Last year Metal Toad launched its Custom Cloud Service.
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Providing Time for Employees to Change Their Passwords
With the highly publicized Heartbleed vulnerability this week, a vulnerabi
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Why More People Select WordPress than Drupal to Build Websites
First off, Drupal has had a great year and a great quarter.
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Going Paper-less with Google Drive
As a technology company, we tend to go full-bore with any tools that can move us away from paper. When Google Drive (formerly Google Apps) made...
AWS
Bucket policy for friendly file exchange on Amazon S3
We sometimes need to exchange huge files with our customers and partners (too big to fit within the typical storage limits of Basecamp, or the free...
Artificial Intelligence
You Should be Paying More Than $50/month for Hosting.
In the year 1999, if you ran a business and you had a website, you were ahead of the game.
AWS
It's still not a F&*$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
TinyDNS as a Puppet Module
As a data center operator we are in need of DNS handling for our internal servers and appliances. Handling IP’s for everything is not really an...
Artificial Intelligence
ToadCast 008 - Just use a password manager
We are back! ToadCast 008, I was joined by Jonathan Jordan to discuss password security, programmer mentality and philosophy, and more!
AWS
ToadCast 007 - Like a Boss
Here it is! ToadCast #7, I was joined by the owner of Metal Toad Media, Joaquin Lippincott to discuss standards, browsers, Mars rover Curiosity,...
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How I got Twitter, UNIX Timestamps, and Drupal 7 to all play nice
Recently I had an opportunity to work with Twitter module for Drupal 7 on one of the projects. Most of the functionality I needed for the project was...
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Learning the Metal Toad Way
If you're a front-end developer you probably know that it can be difficult to keep up-to-date on all the new technology and techniques that our peers...
Git
Elasticsearch and Jetty
I needed a custom REST interface that mimicked a legacy API, rather than using elasticsearch's REST interface directly. Because we all know that I...
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Drupal 7 Deployment Checklist
This list makes sure that we covers our... Ahem, bases. This is an update to the blog post originally written by Dylan Tack, our Lead Drupal Engineer.
Business
How to talk to your customers about Drupal Security updates
With the recent release of versions 7.2 and 6.22, a significant Drupal security flaw in 6.x has been identified and fixed. While I feel strongly this...
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Top 5 Reasons to Choose Drupal as your CMS.
We get a lot of questions about what makes Drupal a good decision as a content management system. Here are the top 5 reasons, in order of importance:
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New York Times Claims HTML5 is a "Pandora's Box" of Privacy Risks
Alarmist rhetoric from news organizations about the web is nothing new, but today's front-page headline on the New York Times still caught my eye: "
Drupal
URL Shorteners Must Die
URL shorteners (such as bit.ly and tinyurl) have been called the "herpes of the web". Beyond just link-rot, a public shortening service is per se an...
Drupal
Using JSONP Safely
JSONP is a way to make cross-domain requests through javascript. It takes advantage of a loophole in the browser's same-origin policy: tags are...