Posts for category: Technical

Managing Django Translations with Transifex

April 25, 2013

We manage a number of open source Django apps here at Caktus. While many of us here are proficient in a number of programming languages, the same can’t be said for our ability to read or write in languages other than English. The Django community is global and we ... Read more

A helper script for runserver

April 11, 2013

This is a little shell script I save as rs, put on my path, and use as a shortcut to start the Django development server. It has several features that make me more productive...

Thoughts after attending the UNICEF Rwanda mHealth Conference

August 08, 2012

This past July, I had the pleasure of attending the UNICEF Rwanda conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The conferences focus was on developing a comprehensive eHealth suite for numerous nations to implement.

Using LESS with Django

March 05, 2012

Lately, I’ve been working on creating a simplified work flow for my front end work here at Caktus. There are all sorts of new and helpful tools to optimize the creative process, allowing for faster iterations, and greater overall enjoyment.

Configuring a Jenkins Slave

January 10, 2012

We're pretty avid testers here at Caktus and when one of our Django projects required upgrading to Python 2.7, we also needed to upgrade our Jenkins build environment. Luckily, Jenkins supports distributed builds to allow a master install to delegate tasks to slaves instances. This way we can ...