Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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Taking a Dip into Elixir
ElixirConf 2019 will be in Aurora, CO, and I'm delighted to announce that two Cakti, our CEO Tobias McNulty and Lead Developer Vinod Kurup, will be in attendance from August 27 ... Read more
August 22, 2019 -
DjangoCon, Here We Come!
We’re looking forward to the international gathering at DjangoCon 2019, in San Diego, CA. The six-day conference, from September 22 - 27, is focused on the Django web framework,... Read more
August 20, 2019 -
How to Import Multiple Excel Sheets in Pandas
Pandas is a powerful Python data analysis tool. It's used heavily in the data science community since its data structures make real-world data analysis significantly easier. At... Read more
August 13, 2019 -
Making Space for Wagtail
It’s no secret that Caktus ❤️’s Wagtail, our favorite Django-based CMS. On July 25, I had the pleasure of attending Wagtail Space US, an annual convening and celebration of all ... Read more
August 5, 2019 -
Book Review: Creating GUI Applications with wxPython
I enjoyed working through the book Creating GUI Applications with wxPython by Michael Driscoll, learning various techniques for programming GUI applications in Python using wxPy... Read more
July 10, 2019 -
How to Set Up a Centralized Log Server with rsyslog
For many years, we've been running an ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack for centralized logging. We have a specific project that requires on-premise infrastructure, s... Read more
June 20, 2019