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Showing 7 to 12 of 58 blog posts by Tobias McNulty.
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Making Clean Code a Part of Your Build Process (And More!)
At Caktus, "clean" (in addition to "working"!) code is an important part of our delivery. For all new projects, we achieve that by using flake8. flake8 is a wrapper around sever... Read more
August 15, 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 -
Creating and Using Open Source: A Guide for ICT4D Managers
Choosing an open source product or platform upon which to build an ICT4D service is hard. Creating a sustainable, volunteer-driven open source project is even harder. There is a... Read more
May 29, 2015
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PyPy.js: What? How? Why? by Ryan Kelly (PyCon 2015 Must-See Talk: 5/6)
Part three of six in our PyCon 2015 Must-See Series, a weekly highlight of talks our staff enjoyed at PyCon. From Ryan Kelly's talk I learned that it is actually possible, toda... Read more
May 26, 2015 -
Why I Love Technical Blogging
I love writing blog posts, and today I’m setting out to do something I’ve never tried before: write a blog post about writing blog posts. A big part of our mission at Caktus is ... Read more
January 23, 2015 -
Removal of Mural
We have recently heard complaints about the painting over of the mural on the side of 108 Morris, the building we purchased and are restoring in Downtown Durham. I am personall... Read more
July 11, 2014
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