Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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Reflecting on My Time as Caktus' Open Source Fellow
My name is Ben Phillips and I am Caktus' Open Source Fellow. As my fellowship comes to a close, I wanted to reflect on my time at Caktus and to share my experience and some of w... Read more
December 21, 2015 -
Caktus Participates in Tree of Bikes at American Tobacco Campus
This year, our neighbors at American Tobacco Campus (ATC) hosted Durham’s first ever Tree of Bikes event to help collect and distribute new bikes to children in need in the loca... Read more
December 17, 2015 -
Caktus CTO Colin Copeland Helps Launch Open Data Policing Website
Today, at Caktus headquarters, CTO and co-founder of Caktus Colin Copeland will stand at a press conference along with activists, police representatives, and elected officials t... Read more
December 17, 2015 -
Cyber Monday: 50% off Django book and videos
Are you looking for a good gift for a current or future Django developer? Check out Caktus technical director Mark Lavin's work for O'Reilly: Lightweight Django (book co-writt... Read more
November 30, 2015 -
What human-centered design can do for international development
A human-centered design process is a critical step that is often overlooked when making important decisions in technology for development. Read more
November 20, 2015 -
Initial Data in Django
I've struggled to find an ideal way to load initial data for Django projects. By “initial data,” I'm referring to the kind of data that you need on a new system for it to be fu... Read more
November 10, 2015