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Brazil’s Best: Metal Toad Wins 2021 Clutch Award for Top IT Outsourcing Company
From Los Angeles to Brazil Headquartered in sunny Los Angeles, California, Metal Toad is an award-winning
Machine Learning
How to Host a Website on AWS in 5 Minutes
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....
Artificial Intelligence
How to pick the best Headless CMS
In the past few years, Metal Toad has increasingly migrated clients to headless CMS providers to reduce costs, improve the conten
Artificial Intelligence
Building a AWS Headless CMS
Over the past several years, Metal Toad has launched several successful cloud-first web and mobile applications, often with hardware components. With...
Artificial Intelligence
Saas vs. Cloud
Discover how the Cloud has disrupted the software industry, from the rise of Open Source to the emergence of SaaS applications. Learn why the Cloud...
Artificial Intelligence
How Much Does a Website Cost? 2 of 3: Rebuilding
In my last article, I addressed the age old question "how much does a website cost?" from the stand
Drupal
Anatomy of a Drupalgeddon attack
Before working at Metal Toad, I saw an email from Acquia. A strange email. It went something like this:
Database
WordPress Deployments: Example of Database Changes in Code
How do you update the database of a WordPress site that's already in production without a lengthy content freeze or losing your client's data?
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A Place for Ideas
When people think of Metal Toad, they immediately think of technology thought leadership and a strong devotion to education and outreach.
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CoverOregon goes Open Source
Ten months since my open letter to Oregon Governor Kitzhaber, challenging him to fix CoverOregon and to use more local companies and more open so
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Seeing Long Term Technology Adoption as Evolution
Much like an evolutionary tree our goal in technology adoption is too continue to move forward and evolve, rather than getting caught in a dead end....
Artificial Intelligence
The Challenge to Innovation
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...
Drupal
Drupal vs. WordPress? Who Cares?! They Are Both Open Source.
Debating WordPress vs. Drupal? Both are powerful, open-source CMS options. Learn why investing in open-source platforms offers better value than...
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.
Database
Metal Toad University #10: Real Time Word Press
In this episode our intrepid adventurers embarked on a quest to install WordPress. I have to admit, this was quite easy and didn't take nearly as...
Artificial Intelligence
How (and Why) Google Needs to Invest in Open Source
As more and more people start using the internet, and as websites get increasingly full featured Google continues to see growth in its userbase. Open...
Git
Quick & Dirty WordPress Plugin Benchmarking in Debug Bar
At tonight's PDX WordPress Dev meetup (thanks for the pizza Digital Trends) Daniel Bachhuber had some questions about benchmarking a plugin....
Drupal
How to Jumpstart Your Programming Career
If you've felt yourself stagnating as a programmer recently, I have a cure for you. That's right, a ticket out of the back room or cubicle you've...
Drupal
New Competition: Will WordPress and Drupal Learn to Share?
Can WordPress and Drupal stay ahead of closed platforms like SquareSpace and Adobe? Discover how open-source communities can innovate and adapt to...
Drupal
How Drupal is more welcoming than WordPress
I think we've all heard a few things about how Drupal and WordPress compare to each other.
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WebVisions PDX Interview Series 2012
The WebVisions Conference came through Portland last week - and Metal Toad was there to capture as many interviews as we could.
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Simplify your WordPress Deployments
Deploying code to WordPress installations has always been a bit of a struggle. Although there are a few WordPress plugins that help in deployments,...
Artificial Intelligence
Learning Better Dev Skills by Programming in Public
Learning to develop professionally involves a lot more than just writing code.
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WordPress Tutorial : A unique dynamic sidebar for each page - or not!
The last few websites I've built have had sidebars that the client *may* or *may not* need to customize on every page. Some pages don't require a...