Showing 31 to 36 of 40 blog posts by Colin Copeland.
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OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding
As Tobias mentioned in Scraping Data and Web Standards, Caktus is collaborating with the UNC School of Journalism to help develop Open Rural (the code is on GitHub). Open Rural ... Read more
December 12, 2011 -
Lightning Talk Lunch: Service Page API
Leading the second talk of our Caktus Lightning Talk Lunch series, Calvin Spealman presented on the Service Page API: The Service Page API is a prototype and proof of concept t... Read more
August 17, 2011 -
An alternative RapidSMS router implementation (with Celery!)
We've been using RapidSMS, a Django-powered SMS framework, more and more frequently here at Caktus. It's evolved a lot over the past year-- from being reworked to feel more like... Read more
July 18, 2011 -
Basic Django deployment with virtualenv, fabric, pip and rsync
Deployment is usually a tedious process with lots of tinkering until everything is setup just right. We deploy quite a few Django sites on a regular basis here at Caktus and sti... Read more
April 22, 2010 -
Continuous Integration with Django and Hudson CI (Day 1)
We're always looking for new tools to make our development environment more robust here at Caktus. We write a lot of tests to ensure proper functionality as new features land an... Read more
March 8, 2010 -
Custom JOINs with Django's query.join()
Django's ORM is great. It handles simple to fairly complex queries right out the box without having to write any SQL. If you need a complicated query, Django's lets you use .ext... Read more
September 28, 2009