Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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From Intern to Professional Developer: Advice on a Mid-Career Pivot
A few weeks ago, Rebecca Conley attended DjangoCon Europe 2016 in Budapest, Hungary. At the conference, she gave a talk on her transition into web development from other fields. Read more
April 13, 2016 -
Adopting Scrum in a Client-services, Multi-project Organization
Caktus began the process of adopting Scrum mid-November 2015. It took us six weeks to design and execute a process and transition plan. This is how we did it: Read more
April 11, 2016 -
What We're Clicking - March Link Roundup
We’re starting a new, monthly series on the Caktus blog highlighting the articles and posts shared by Cakti that drew the most attention on Twitter. These roundups will include ... Read more
April 5, 2016 -
Caktus expands anti-discrimination policies to include sexual orientation, gender identity
For the past few months, we’ve been working on broadening our anti-harassment and equal employment policy. We’re very pleased to announce that our policies now include sexual or... Read more
April 4, 2016 -
New white paper: "Shipping faster: Django team improvements"
For the past couple months, we’ve been working on a new white paper, “Shipping Faster: Django Team Improvements”. We examined our existing processes, looked at best practices, a... Read more
April 4, 2016 -
Lightweight Django now in Portuguese!
We're proud to report that Lightweight Django (O'Reilly Media) is now available in Portuguese as Django Essencial. The book was written by our technical director Mark Lavin and ... Read more
April 2, 2016