Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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AWS load balancers with Django
We recently had occasion to reconfigure some of our existing servers to use Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancers in front of them. Setting this up isn't hard, exactly, but... Read more
August 10, 2015 -
Announcing the Caktus Open Source Fellowship
We are excited to announce the creation of a pilot program for open source contributions here at Caktus Group. This program is inspired by the Django Software Foundation’s fello... Read more
August 6, 2015 -
Announcing Django Girls RDU: Free Coding Workshop for Women
We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of Django Girls RDU, a group in NC’s Triangle region that hosts free one-day Django coding workshops for women. Django Girls is ... Read more
August 5, 2015 -
Using Unsaved Related Models for Sample Data in Django 1.8
Note: In between the time I originally wrote this post and it getting published, a ticket and pull request were opened in Django to remove allow_unsaved_instance_assignment and... Read more
July 28, 2015 -
PyCon 2015 Workshop Video: Building SMS Applications with Django
As proud sponsors of PyCon, we hosted a one and a half hour free workshop. We see the workshops as a wonderful opportunity to share some practical, hands-on experience in our ar... Read more
July 24, 2015 -
Reviews of two recent Django Books
Introduction When I started building sites in Django, I learned the basics from the excellent Django tutorial. But I had to learn by trial and error which approaches to using Dj... Read more
July 23, 2015
