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CAREERS AT METAL TOAD The Toads unite around the core values that drive our organization. These core values — help, respect, curiosity, value, and experience — do not change from time to time, situation to FINDING THE PROJECT MANAGER CAPACITY SWEET SPOTDETERMINING PROJECT COMPLEXITYPROJECT COMPLEXITY CRITERIAPROJECT COMPLEXITY DEFINITIONPROJECT COMPLEXITY RISKPROJECT COMPLEXITY SCALE The life of a project manager is one of disruptions. As I sit here trying to write this blog post, I've been interrupted by questions from two developers, a relatively small tidal wave of email (it can get much worse), a completed deploy to check in on, a phone call from a client, and several tickets ready for QA. But that's okay. Good,

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5 SIMPLE WAYS TO IMPRESS YOUR FUTURE EMPLOYER Here are five ways you can take traditional advice, kick it up a notch, and impress your future company. 5. Schedule an Informational Interview. Showing up unannounced to put a “face on your application” shows initiative and an ability to take risks. However, from a recruiter standpoint, this one is tough for a couple of

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CAREERS AT METAL TOAD The Toads unite around the core values that drive our organization. These core values — help, respect, curiosity, value, and experience — do not change from time to time, situation to FINDING THE PROJECT MANAGER CAPACITY SWEET SPOTDETERMINING PROJECT COMPLEXITYPROJECT COMPLEXITY CRITERIAPROJECT COMPLEXITY DEFINITIONPROJECT COMPLEXITY RISKPROJECT COMPLEXITY SCALE The life of a project manager is one of disruptions. As I sit here trying to write this blog post, I've been interrupted by questions from two developers, a relatively small tidal wave of email (it can get much worse), a completed deploy to check in on, a phone call from a client, and several tickets ready for QA. But that's okay. Good,

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5 SIMPLE WAYS TO IMPRESS YOUR FUTURE EMPLOYER Here are five ways you can take traditional advice, kick it up a notch, and impress your future company. 5. Schedule an Informational Interview. Showing up unannounced to put a “face on your application” shows initiative and an ability to take risks. However, from a recruiter standpoint, this one is tough for a couple of

reasons.

LAMBDA: JAVASCRIPT VS PYTHON The two differences are that python gets all the SDK for AWS with a single import and Javascript uses several. This does allow javascript to be leaner since it normally runs in a web browser and has less resources to use. The Functions declaration is pretty similar and VISUAL REGRESSION TESTING WITH BACKSTOPJS After doing some research, I decided to use BackstopJS, an npm package created for visual regression testing. It uses configuration files to target specific URLs and CSS selectors, and takes both reference and test screenshots to compare against each other. BackstopJS also runs a report that shows the screenshot comparison, and includes REGEX FOR QUOTED STRING WITH ESCAPABLE QUOTES Metal Toad is an AWS Managed Services provider. In addition to Regex tips we recommend checking out our article on how to host a website on AWS in 5 minutes.. This post is a long-format reply to Jonathan Jordan's recent post.Jonathan's post was about the ANGULAR API CALLS WITH DJANGO: AUTHENTICATION WITH JWTDJANGO CHANNELS JWTDJANGO REST API JWTDJANGO SIMPLE JWTDJANGO ERROR PAGEDJANGO VS ANGULARDJANGO WEB SERVER the DJango package is the basic framework itself. djangorestframework is the core of DRF and provides the means to build API endpoints. djangorestframework-jwt is an extension to DRF which provides an authentication layer using JSON Web Tokens. The vanilla install of Django provides a basic settings file for the application. PROXYING MS SQL CONNECTIONS USING PUTTY Creating your PuTTY session. Start PuTTY and enter the hostname and port of your gateway server. This should be the domain name or a public IP address. It's the address of the server you can connect to with SSH, not the address of the SQL server. If you are using an SSH key (recommended), you can set it up in the Connection -> SSH -> Auth

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AWS MANAGED SERVICES Metal Toad is a values driven technology consultancy with over 15+ years of delivering for customers. Founded in 2003, Metal Toad has grown to become a leading Cloud Consulting Partner providing consulting, development, application support and managed services. PROXYING MS SQL CONNECTIONS USING PUTTY Creating your PuTTY session. Start PuTTY and enter the hostname and port of your gateway server. This should be the domain name or a public IP address. It's the address of the server you can connect to with SSH, not the address of the SQL server. If you are using an SSH key (recommended), you can set it up in the Connection -> SSH -> Auth

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THE FUTURE OF CLOUD SECURITY Cloud security is still stuck at the first efforts that the fashion industry dealt with: service agreements and accountability systems. Enterprises have barely scratched the service of digital supply chain auditing; everything else is still years away from substantial investment. Keep in mind that behind all cloud services, deep in the

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WHAT IS XAMARIN?

A few more descriptions from Microsoft, Xamarin themselves and experts out in the world: “Xamarin is an open-source platform for building modern and performant applications for iOS, Android, and Windows with .NET. Xamarin is an abstraction layer that manages communication of

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AWS Lambda, for those not familiar with it, is an event driven serverless (what is serverless?) platform for compute resources. Rather than paying for an EC2 instance or running docker instances on ECS that runs executable code, Lambda offers an alternative that is for many applications much less expensive. SCALING PROJECTS AND SCALING THE ORGANIZATION Scaling projects serves as a great model for organizational growth when it comes to inputs, outputs, process, teams, and more. Let's look at some common elements of any project: Budgets: Every project has a budget that needs to be tracked to by the project manager. The budget usually accompanies an invoice schedule tied to dates or milestones. DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT AND THE CLOUD As the CEO of BuyDRM, Christopher provides key insight and management to staff based around the world, as part of BuyDRM’s mission to deliver the leading DRM service platform available. As part of that role, he works with their growing global customer base to ensure they are deploying best of breed solutions they can base their business on. ANGULAR 5: MAKING API CALLS WITH THE HTTPCLIENT SERVICE 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 service, handling both single and concurrent data loading with RxJs Observables, and writing data to an API. ANDROID P AND WI-FI RTT Recently, Google launched the first developer preview build of Android P. With this, several new features were announced, including two that

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USING SERVERLESS CONFIG TO DEPLOY AN AWS CLOUDWATCH DASHBOARD From there, the docs took me to template snippets for the CloudWatch Dashboard, where I realized that I need a line ahead of what I already had. Here’s your first tip: The line above the Type property can be whatever you want. I didn’t really have any YAML experience before this, so perhaps that’s more well-known, but I started with their naming example in my code. Skip to main content hello@metaltoad.com 503.336.1658

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