Showing 115 to 120 of 309 blog posts in the technical category.
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Using Tokens During Sprint Planning to Allocate Time
In January of 2016, Caktus transitioned from a general Agile development environment to a more focused Scrum environment. Part of this transition entailed moving from a targeted... Read more
May 8, 2017 -
ShipIt Day Recap Q2 2017
Once per quarter, Caktus employees have the opportunity to take a day away from client work to focus on learning or refreshing skills, testing out ideas, or working on open sour... Read more
May 3, 2017 -
Building a Custom Block Template Tag
Building custom tags for Django templates has gotten much easier over the years, with decorators provided that do most of the work when building common, simple kinds of tags. O... Read more
May 1, 2017 -
Learning to ask the right questions, or people
I ask a lot of questions as a developer. Some of them have been more basic, like ‘How do I import a Python function from one file into another?’, and some more complex, like ‘Ho... Read more
April 10, 2017 -
Digging Into Django QuerySets
Digging Into Django QuerySets Object-relational mappers (or ORMs for short), such as the one that comes built-in with Django, make it easy for even new developers to become pr... Read more
April 5, 2017 -
Hosting Django Sites on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
Introduction Amazon Web Services (AWS)' Elastic Beanstalk is a service that bundles up a number of their lower-level services to manage many details for you when deploying a s... Read more
March 23, 2017