Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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From Intern to Professional Developer
Quite often, people undertake internships at the beginning of their career. For me, it was a mid-career direction change and a leap of faith. Read more
April 15, 2015 -
How to Find Cakti at PyCon 2015
We’re very excited for PyCon 2015 and can’t wait for the fun to begin. Working on the PyCon website stoked our excitement early, so it’s almost surreal that PyCon is finally her... Read more
April 7, 2015 -
DiamondHacks 2015 Recap
This past weekend, Technical Director Mark Lavin came out to support DiamondHacks, NCSU’s first ever hackathon and conference event for women interested in computer science. Read more
April 2, 2015 -
Welcome to Our New Staff Members
We’ve hit one of our greatest growth points yet in 2015, adding nine new team members since January to handle our increasing project load. There are many exciting things on the ... Read more
March 27, 2015 -
Astro Code School Now Accepting Applications - Intermediate Django + Python
I'm really happy to officially announce the first Python and Django Web Engineering class at Astro Code School. I'll outline some details here and you can also find them on our ... Read more
March 20, 2015 -
Why RapidSMS for SMS Application Development
Caktus has been involved in quite a few projects (Libyan voter registration, UNICEF Project Mwana, and several others) that include text messaging (a.k.a. Short Message Service... Read more
March 16, 2015
