Showing 1 to 6 of 249 blog posts in the technical category.
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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 -
How to Switch to a Custom Django User Model Mid-Project
The Django documentation recommends always starting your project with a custom user model (even if it's identical to Django's to begin with), to make it easier to customize lat... Read more
April 26, 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 -
Django: Recommended Reading
It's important to read up on the latest industry trends and technologies to stay current in order to address our clients' challenges. We even maintain a library in our office fo... Read more
March 1, 2019 -
Suggestions For Picking Up Old Projects
At Caktus, we work on many projects, some of which are built by us from start to finish, while others are inherited from other sources. Oftentimes, we pick up a project that we... Read more
February 15, 2019 -
A Guide To Creating An API Endpoint With Django Rest Framework
As part of our work to make sharp web apps at Caktus, we frequently create API endpoints that allow other software to interact with a server. Oftentimes this means using a fron... Read more
February 1, 2019
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Jun 17, 2019 6:00 p.m.
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