Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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On building relationships - Digital Project Management Summit Recap
When I first became a digital project manager, I struggled to find professional resources. There was a plethora of information available for traditional project management, but ... Read more
November 18, 2016 -
RapidCon 2016: RapidPro Developer's Recap
Developer Erin Mullaney was just in Amsterdam for RapidCon, a UNICEF-hosted event for developers using RapidPro, an SMS tool built on Django. The teams that have worked on Rapid... Read more
November 16, 2016 -
Common web site security vulnerabilities
I recently decided I wanted to understand better what Cross-Site Scripting and Cross-Site Request Forgery were, and how they compared to that classic vulnerability, SQL Injecti... Read more
November 10, 2016 -
Managing multiple Python projects: Virtual environments
Even Python learning materials that get into very advanced language features rarely mention some practical things that would be very helpful to know as soon as you start workin... Read more
November 3, 2016 -
Presidential debate questions influenced by open source platform
During the past two presidential debates, moderators from ABC and Fox asked candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump voter-submitted questions from PresidentialOpenQuestions.... Read more
October 25, 2016 -
ShipIt Day Recap Q3 2016
This ShipIt day marks four years of ShipIt days at Caktus! We had a wide range of projects that people came together to build. Most importantly, we all had fun and learned throu... Read more
October 24, 2016