Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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Don't keep important data in your Celery queue
The Celery library (previous posts) makes it as easy to schedule a task to run later as calling a function. Just change: send_welcome_email('dan@example.com') to: send_welc... Read more
October 18, 2016 -
PyData Carolinas 2016 Recap
We had a great time at the inaugural PyData Carolinas hosted nearby at IBM in the Research Triangle Park! People from Caktus presented a number of talks and the videos are now u... Read more
October 17, 2016 -
How to tell if you’re building great user experience
In web and software development, when we talk about user experience, we usually mean the experience you have when you are using a website or an application. Does it feel like yo... Read more
October 6, 2016 -
Principles of good user experience (UX)
Google “UX principles” and you’ll end up with a search results page that offers: 5 principles... 31 fundamentals…. 10 principles… Guidelines… Basics…. So let’s get this out of... Read more
September 29, 2016 -
What We’re Clicking - September 2016 Link Roundup
Every 30 days, we look over the most popular and talked about links that we’ve either shared on social media or amongst ourselves. This month, a lot of the favorites were from o... Read more
September 21, 2016 -
Caktus Group @ PyData Carolinas 2016
So many talks, so little time. See where Cakti will be during all of PyData Carolinas. Many of our team members will be speaking! Read more
September 14, 2016