Metova's Guadalajara office is celebrating their 1-year Anniversary! The Guadalajara office’s team of 15 and growing specialize in languages including iOS, .Net and Ruby on Rails. Additional specialties and services include QA and Design. Known as the “Mexican Silicon Valley,” Guadalajara is Mexico’s second largest city and is the most important technology hub in Mexico. [...]
Ricardo Salinas is a seasoned developer handling development projects for companies including Sirius XM and Travel Nurses Across America. When we discovered that Ricardo practices Jiu Jitsu, we were intrigued, and a bit scared. We sat down with Ricardo to ask about his training, about playing heavy metal guitar, how Jiu Jitsu makes him a [...]
At Metova, we’re forever curious about emerging trends and technology. So we survey our cutting-edge, tech savvy crew of developers on the latest trends and tech offerings. The developer surveys are all anonymous – allowing respondents to freely express their opinion on the subject at hand. Lately commercial space flight has been in the news [...]
Made By Few is a conference "for the makers of the web." This past weekend the 6th Made By Few event was hosted in Downtown Little Rock featuring 11 speaker sessions, 4 workshops and 2 after-parties. In this post I'll highlight my favorite speakers and big takeaways from this delightful conference. Deva Pardue Deva [...]
This year NWA Tech Summit had a common theme woven throughout nearly every keynote... inspiration in unlikely places. For example, did you know that Northwest Arkansas is the third fastest growing metro in the United States with a net 34 person growth every day? So what does this mean? According to the top data scientist [...]
This past weekend, I was a volunteer developer at GiveCamp NWA to help provide technology solutions for local non-profit organizations. Starting Friday night, all day Saturday, and the morning of Sunday, my team worked with the Arkansas Crisis Center to solve one of their biggest problems: paperwork. The Problem The Arkansas Crisis Center is "a [...]
Metova’s Colin Comfort and Ed Horton participated in the inaugural Sevan Golf Classic charity event. The Golf Classic took place Friday, September 21 at the historic Cantigny golf course and collected more than $75,000 supporting Fisher House Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. 40 organizations, including Metova, contributed sponsorships, donations, food, drinks and prizes. Check out some pictures from [...]
Recently our Fayetteville, AR, office participated in Startup Junkie's Startup Crawl along with 45 other local companies – plus plenty of local breweries. Startup Crawl draws 1,500+ attendees every year. Attendees visit local offices, drink local craft beer and check out technology demos on items including IoT, the Connected Home, mobile apps and robotics. Our office [...]
Karen Fletcher, a developer at Metova, did a lot of great work and had a nice time teaching at the AR Girls Code event. Put on by Startup Junkie and hosted at Metova’s Fayetteville office, the event was attended by about 20 girls aged 10-14 years. For many it was their first coding experience. Presenters lead the girls through [...]
Metovians participated in and had a great time at the Girls of Promise Summer Coding Summit this month! Put on by Women's Foundation of Arkansas and hosted at the University of Central Arkansas, the event was attended by nearly 50 middle school-aged girls. Karen Fletcher and Chandler Gaines from Metova led attendees through modules and [...]
