Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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A Quick Guide to Generating Fake Data with Pandas
Last August, our CTO Colin Copeland wrote about how to import multiple Excel files in your Django project using pandas. We have used on multiple Python-based projects at Caktus ... Read more
April 15, 2020 -
Caktus Hosts First Pitch Competition: Winner Receives 300 Hours of Project Time
We recently hosted the first Caktus Pitch Competition: Building Tech for Good, which aimed to draw out innovative ideas and help make them a reality. While any web development i... Read more
March 30, 2020 -
What to do About Email: How to Extract Data from Microsoft PST Files
In my previous line of work as an archivist, the question of what to do about email archives was an ongoing and deeply-considered topic. Email is everywhere. Yes, even Gen Z an... Read more
March 19, 2020 -
Creating a Sub-account in Amazon Web Services
Anytime we host resources for a client within the Caktus Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, we set up a sub-account and put the resources there. Some of the advantages of doing... Read more
March 3, 2020 -
How to Use the "docker" Docker Image to Run Your Own Docker daemon
There exists on Docker hub a Docker image called docker. It also has two flavors, "stable" and a "dind" (Docker-in-Docker). What is this image for and what is the purpose of th... Read more
February 25, 2020 -
Vue or React: How to Choose?
Across industries and sectors, we have become accustomed to seeing great rivalries that drive further innovation and competition. In the early days of car manufacturing, we had... Read more
January 14, 2020
