Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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Caktus CTO Colin Copeland Helps Launch Open Data Policing Website
Today, at Caktus headquarters, CTO and co-founder of Caktus Colin Copeland will stand at a press conference along with activists, police representatives, and elected officials t... Read more
December 17, 2015 -
Cyber Monday: 50% off Django book and videos
Are you looking for a good gift for a current or future Django developer? Check out Caktus technical director Mark Lavin's work for O'Reilly: Lightweight Django (book co-writt... Read more
November 30, 2015 -
What human-centered design can do for international development
A human-centered design process is a critical step that is often overlooked when making important decisions in technology for development. Read more
November 20, 2015 -
Initial Data in Django
I've struggled to find an ideal way to load initial data for Django projects. By “initial data,” I'm referring to the kind of data that you need on a new system for it to be fu... Read more
November 10, 2015 -
The Long, Hard Haul to Uncovering a Single, Tiny CSS Property Bug in IE10
There’s a very small but devastatingly crash-inducing bug in Internet Explorer 10. Watch out for setting a background-color to inherit on any pseudo element (like ::before and :... Read more
November 4, 2015 -
Open Sourcing SmartElect: Libya's SMS Voter Registration System
We are proud to say that, with the Libyan High National Elections Commission (HNEC) and consultative support from the United Nations Support Mission to Libya, we have open sourc... Read more
October 28, 2015