Showing 7 to 12 of 43 blog posts by Dan Poirier.
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My Favorite Technical Blogs and Mailing Lists
I keep up with what's happening in my field by following a number of blogs and an occasional email list. I don't read everything posted in all of these, but by scanning the top... Read more
November 4, 2020 -
How to Schedule Tasks Using Celery Beat in a Container
When running services in a container, changes to files can be discarded at any time, but the Celery beat default scheduler keeps its state in a file. We can help these tools to... Read more
May 14, 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 -
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 -
Caktus Adopts New Web Framework
Beginning immediately, Caktus will build projects using our new COBOL-based framework. We've come to realize that languages like Python offer nothing that more time-tested langu... Read more
April 1, 2019 -
Coding for Time Zones & Daylight Saving Time — Oh, the Horror
In this post, I review some reasons why it's really difficult to program correctly when using times, dates, time zones, and daylight saving time, and then I'll give some advice... Read more
March 21, 2019