Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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ShipIt Day Recap: Q1 2016
Last Friday, the Cakti set aside regular client projects for our quarterly ShipIt Day, a chance for personal development and independent projects. Read more
January 20, 2016 -
The Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Choosing an M&E Platform
Reflections and learning from the recent MERL Tech conference session focusing on project design, tool design/research, and getting things off the ground when it comes to choosi... Read more
January 11, 2016 -
Modified Preorder Tree Traversal in Django
Databases don't natively store hierarchies. MPTT saves hierarchical data in flat tables with fast retrieval but slow update. This post explores these tradeoffs. Read more
January 4, 2016 -
What We Open Sourced in 2015: A New Year's Retrospective
This year we had the pleasure of building a number of unique solutions for several organizations. In addition, we had the support of these clients to open source the tools we bu... Read more
December 31, 2015 -
Reflecting on My Time as Caktus' Open Source Fellow
My name is Ben Phillips and I am Caktus' Open Source Fellow. As my fellowship comes to a close, I wanted to reflect on my time at Caktus and to share my experience and some of w... Read more
December 21, 2015 -
Caktus Participates in Tree of Bikes at American Tobacco Campus
This year, our neighbors at American Tobacco Campus (ATC) hosted Durham’s first ever Tree of Bikes event to help collect and distribute new bikes to children in need in the loca... Read more
December 17, 2015
