Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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Product Discovery Part 1: Getting Started
When setting out to build a new website or web application, it is a good idea to build a shared understanding of the product between stakeholders and the product team. Through r... Read more
April 17, 2017 -
Learning to ask the right questions, or people
I ask a lot of questions as a developer. Some of them have been more basic, like ‘How do I import a Python function from one file into another?’, and some more complex, like ‘Ho... Read more
April 10, 2017 -
Digging Into Django QuerySets
Digging Into Django QuerySets Object-relational mappers (or ORMs for short), such as the one that comes built-in with Django, make it easy for even new developers to become pr... Read more
April 5, 2017 -
Come Visit Us at PyCon 2017
PyCon 2017 is fast approaching, and we’re excited to support the event this year as sponsors once again. It’s a great opportunity to meet new friends, exchange ideas and interac... Read more
March 29, 2017 -
Hosting Django Sites on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
Introduction Amazon Web Services (AWS)' Elastic Beanstalk is a service that bundles up a number of their lower-level services to manage many details for you when deploying a s... Read more
March 23, 2017 -
Here's a Production-Ready Dockerfile for Your Python/Django App
Update (October 29, 2019): I updated this post with more recent Django and Postgres versions, to use Python and pip directly in the container (instead of in a separate virtual ... Read more
March 14, 2017
