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The Agile PM Onboard
Efficient onboarding transforms new hires into confident, knowledgeable, and productive team members through structured, incremental tasks.
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Artificial Intelligence
How to Run a Great Hackathon (and Why You Should Do It)
Working at Metal Toad is all about innovation.
Artificial Intelligence
Docker Containers & Clustering/Orchestration
The Big Picture The aim of this blog post isn’t to get into the nitty gritty how to build and run a containerized app on your favorite cloud provider...
Artificial Intelligence
An Exploration of Daydream Using the Android SDK
Going into the latest hackathon, I knew there were several options for building a virtual reality (VR) app for Android devices.
Artificial Intelligence
Web-based AR: Hunting for Treasure with A-Frame
When Metal Toad announced the theme of the winter Hackathon would be Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), those of us who have focu
Machine Learning
Team Knock-Knock Answers the “Who’s There?” Question With AR
Metal Toad’s winter 2018 hackathon was all about Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR and AR).
Business
The Giving Toad: Living Our Values During the Holidays
One of my favorite parts of working at Metal Toad is the spirit of generosity here.
Business
Imposter Syndrome is Like Bad Janet
Imposter syndrome is kind of the worst. You know it when you ‘see’ it, or in this case, feel it.
Hackathon
Winter Hackathon 2018: Hacking History
A few years ago, I had the good fortune to travel to London to visit some friends. But before I talk about my trip, there is something you must know...
Artificial Intelligence
Silos in Tech
What is siloing? In order to better discuss how engineers and teams become siloed, as well as the positive and negative effects it can have on a team,
Artificial Intelligence
When to Refactor: A Case for Quality
Software, like all things in life, grows old. In the world of software, we call this technical debt. Managing technical debt is like managing aging;...
Artificial Intelligence
Three Lessons Learned from Working in IoT
Prior to coming to Metal Toad, I worked as a .NET engineer at an Internet of Things (IoT) startup.
Artificial Intelligence
Missing a Development Tool? Make Your Own!
Do you ever wish you had a certain tool, but didn't have the budget for it or knew it existed? I'm here to tell you something: you can build it!...
SaaS Application
Angular API Calls with Django, Part 2: Building the Micro-Blog App
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Devopsing a Legacy World
Devops has been picking up steam since around the year 2009. ( It could be argued it was around in other forms longer but for argument's sake let's...
Artificial Intelligence
Evaluating and Choosing A/B Testing Services
A/B and Multivariate Testing is a staple of the product development lifecycle. Whatever your goal, testing should be a frequently used tool in your...
Artificial Intelligence
Hackathon: Team Mood Meter
This year’s hackathon challenge was to explore the Internet of Things (IoT) using cloud technology.
Artificial Intelligence
"Hack the Plants" — Five Lessons Learned from an IoT Adventure
Do a search on “IoT projects” and you’ll turn up endless pages of fantastic Internet of Things ideas and examples.
Artificial Intelligence
Hackathon 2018: Four Guys in a Garage. On Laptops. In a Minivan.
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...
Machine Learning
Freedom to Fumble: Learnings From Hackathon 2018
I spend all my time at work dealing with software. So going into this year’s hackathon, I was excited to get hands-on (and in over my head) with...
Hackathon
Hackathon 2018: Kegerator 2—Revenge of the Flowmeter
Hacking a kegerator with IoT tech at Cloud Hackathon 2018, transforming beverage tracking with cloud data processing and sensors for a smarter office...
Machine Learning
IoT and Employee Satisfaction
The very concept of automation leads to a moral and ethical dilemma regarding the workforce.
Artificial Intelligence
Does your IoT device need an antenna upgrade?
I've long been curious about the effectiveness of the built-in antennas that are attached to common WiFi modules.
Artificial Intelligence
IoT Business Value: Reducing Time Spent Monitoring
Like anything else in its early lifecycle, the Internet of Things (IoT) has a ton of hype but there are still a lot of unknowns when it comes to the...
Business
How To Be a Rebel at Work
I saw the What Rebels Want illustration make its way across Twitter recently, and it immediately resonated with me.