Education on Caktus Group

All Things Open 2019 Recap

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 19:02:08 +0000

I recently attended All Things Open in Raleigh. Bringing together more than 4,000 attendees, it is the largest open tech event on the East Coast, and is focused on “exploring open source, open tech, and the open web.” This year, ATO included more than 240 sessions across 22 tracks, ranging from front-end development to internet-of-things to studies of open data in government. The event was much larger than the last time that I attended in 2017.

ShipIt Day Summer 2018 Recap

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000

On July 27 - 28, we ran our quarterly ShipIt Day here at Caktus. These 24-hour sprints, which we’ve organized since 2012, allow Cakti to explore new projects that expand or increase their skill sets. The event kicked off at 3:00 pm on Thursday and we reconvened at 3:00 pm on Friday to showcase our progress. The goal is to experiment, take risks, and try something new.

Astro Code School Tapped to Teach App Development at UNC Journalism School

Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:30:00 +0000

Our own Caleb Smith, Astro Code School lead instructor, is teaching this semester at UNC’s School of Journalism, one of the nation’s leading journalism schools. He’s sharing his enthusiasm for Django application development with undergraduate and graduate media students in a 500-level course, Advanced Interactive Development.

We’re Launching a Django code school: Astro Code School

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:15:28 +0000

One of the best ways to grow the Django community is to have more high-quality Django developers. The good news is that we’ve seen sharply increasing demand for Django web applications. The challenge that we and many other firms face is that there’s much higher demand than there is supply: there aren’t enough high-quality Django developers. We’ve talked about this issue intensely internally and with our friends while at DjangoCon and PyCon. We decided that we can offer at least one solution: a new Django-focused code school.

O'Reilly Deal: 50% Off Lightweight Django

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:00:00 +0000

O'Reilly Media, the go-to source for technical books, just let us know that they're having a 50% off sale on eBook pre-orders of Lightweight Django today. Use coupon code: DEAL.

Caktus Teaches mHealth to Fulbright Enrichment Students

Thu, 30 May 2013 15:03:53 +0000

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