Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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UNC, Duke Team up with Carrboro-based Caktus Group on HIV Gaming App
The following is a press release posted in partnership with our team at UNC and Duke. The web application development company Caktus Group has teamed up with researchers at th... Read more
October 16, 2013 -
Skipping Test DB Creation
We are always looking for ways to make our tests run faster. That means writing tests which don't preform I/O (DB reads/writes, disk reads/writes) when possible. Django has a c... Read more
October 2, 2013 -
Central logging in Django with Graylog2 and graypy
Django's logging configuration facilities, which arrived in version 1.3, have greatly eased (and standardized) the process of configuring logging for Django projects. When buil... Read more
September 18, 2013 -
Caktus Participates in DjangoCon 2013
Caktus is happy to be involved in this year’s DjangoCon hosted in Chicago. We are pumped about the great lineup of speakers and can’t wait to see some of our old friends as wel... Read more
September 2, 2013 -
Raspberry IO Open Sourced
Back in March, at PyCon 2013, the PSF provided each attendee with a Raspberry Pi, a tiny credit-card sized computer meant to be paired with the Python programming language. The ... Read more
August 14, 2013 -
Migrating to a Custom User Model in Django
UPDATE: Read a newer blog post on this topic. The new custom user model configuration that arrived in Django makes it relatively straightforward to swap in your own model for t... Read more
August 7, 2013
