Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 3: External Geocoders
The OpenBlock geocoder is powerful and robust. It uses PostGIS for spacial queries, can extract addresses from bodies of text, and can understand block and intersection notation... Read more
December 28, 2011 -
Using Django and Celery with Amazon SQS
Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a relatively new offering in the family of Amazon Web Services (AWS). It's also an appealing one, because it proposes to quickly and easil... Read more
December 19, 2011 -
OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 2: Text Parsing and Entity Extraction
This is the second post in our OpenRural series reviewing OpenBlock and it's geocoder. OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding covers the internals of the OpenBlock... Read more
December 16, 2011 -
OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding
As Tobias mentioned in Scraping Data and Web Standards, Caktus is collaborating with the UNC School of Journalism to help develop Open Rural (the code is on GitHub). Open Rural ... Read more
December 12, 2011 -
Scraping Data and Web Standards
We're currently involved in a project with the UNC School of Journalism that hopes to help rural newspapers in North Carolina leverage OpenBlock. The project is called OpenRura... Read more
December 6, 2011 -
Django Without the Web
One of the things I like best about Django is how easy its ORM makes it to work with databases. Too bad Django is only for web applications. Sure, you could deploy a Django app ... Read more
October 24, 2011
