Caktus Blog
Web development blog with how-to's on UX, quality assurance, project management, and more.
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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 -
Our Favorite PyCon 2019 Presentations
PyCon 2019 attracted 3,393 attendees, including a group of six Cakti. When we weren’t networking with attendees at our booth, we attended some fascinating presentations. See whi... Read more
June 11, 2019 -
Be Quick or Eat Potatoes: A Newbie’s Guide to PyCon
This year I attended PyCon for the first time. It’s rather amazing that I haven’t been before, since I’ve been using Python professionally for over 15 years. PyCon 2019 was held... Read more
May 23, 2019
