Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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What to do About Email: How to Extract Data from Microsoft PST Files
In my previous line of work as an archivist, the question of what to do about email archives was an ongoing and deeply-considered topic. Email is everywhere. Yes, even Gen Z an... Read more
March 19, 2020 -
Creating a Sub-account in Amazon Web Services
Anytime we host resources for a client within the Caktus Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, we set up a sub-account and put the resources there. Some of the advantages of doing... Read more
March 3, 2020 -
How to Use the "docker" Docker Image to Run Your Own Docker daemon
There exists on Docker hub a Docker image called docker. It also has two flavors, "stable" and a "dind" (Docker-in-Docker). What is this image for and what is the purpose of th... Read more
February 25, 2020 -
Vue or React: How to Choose?
Across industries and sectors, we have become accustomed to seeing great rivalries that drive further innovation and competition. In the early days of car manufacturing, we had... Read more
January 14, 2020 -
Our Top 19 Blogs of 2019
During the last year we gave our popular technical blog an official name: Developer Access. We published 32 posts on the blog, including technical how-to’s, conference informati... Read more
January 1, 2020 -
Single Page Application + REST as an Abstraction: The Benefits of Decoupling Your Front & Back Ends
Monolithic, consolidated applications are not bad. These are your Rails apps, your Django apps, etc. — the ones where your server sends back HTML and assets. You’ve faithfully f... Read more
December 19, 2019
