Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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FastCompany: 10 Most Innovative Companies in Local
FastCompany named Caktus client, UNICEF, as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Local. UNICEF received this honor for their launch of RapidSMS, an open source platf... Read more
February 14, 2014 -
Caktus Completes RapidSMS Community Coordinator Development for UNICEF
Colin Copeland, Managing Member at Caktus, has wrapped up work, supported by UNICEF, as the Community Coordinator for the open source RapidSMS project. RapidSMS is a text messa... Read more
February 5, 2014 -
Managing Events with Explicit Time Zones
Managing Events with Explicit Time Zones Recently we wanted a way to let users create real-life events which could occur in any time zone that the user desired. By default, Dj... Read more
January 9, 2014 -
Caktus is hiring a Web Designer-Contractor
Caktus is actively seeking local web design contractors in the North Carolina Triangle area. We’re looking for folks who can contribute to our growing team of designers on a per... Read more
January 8, 2014 -
Using strace to Debug Stuck Celery Tasks
Celery is a great tool for background task processing in Django. We use it in a lot of the custom web apps we build at Caktus, and it's quickly becoming the standard for all v... Read more
October 30, 2013 -
ShipIt Day 4: SaltStack, Front-end Exploration, and Django Core
Last week everyone at Caktus stepped away from client work for a day and a half to focus on learning and experimenting. This was our fourth ShipIt day at Caktus, our first being... Read more
October 29, 2013
