<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Guide on Caktus Group</title><link>https://www.caktusgroup.com/tags/guide/</link><description>Recent content in Guide on Caktus Group</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.caktusgroup.com/tags/guide/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>A Quick Guide to Generating Fake Data with Pandas</title><link>https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2020/04/15/quick-guide-generating-fake-data-with-pandas/</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2020/04/15/quick-guide-generating-fake-data-with-pandas/</guid><description>&lt;p>Last August, our CTO Colin Copeland wrote about &lt;a href="https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2019/08/13/import-multiple-excel-sheets-pandas/">how to import multiple Excel files in your Django project using pandas&lt;/a>. We have used &lt;a href="https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pandas&lt;/a> on multiple Python-based projects at Caktus and are adopting it more widely.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Complicated Project? Start with our Discovery Workshop Guide</title><link>https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2018/08/27/discovery-workshop-guide/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:31:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2018/08/27/discovery-workshop-guide/</guid><description>&lt;p>If you ever struggled to implement a complicated development project, starting your next one with a discovery workshop will help. Discovery workshops save you time and money over the course of a project because we help you answer important questions in advance, ensuring that the final product lines up with your primary end goals. Our new guide, &lt;a href="https://learn.caktusgroup.com/shared-understanding-caktus-discovery-workshops" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Shared Understanding: A Guide to Caktus Discovery Workshops&lt;/a>, demonstrates the value of these workshops and why we’ve made them a core component of our client services.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>New white paper: "Shipping faster: Django team improvements"</title><link>https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2016/04/04/new-white-paper-shipping-faster-django-team-improvements/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:26:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2016/04/04/new-white-paper-shipping-faster-django-team-improvements/</guid><description>&lt;p>For the past couple months, we’ve been working on a new white paper, “&lt;a href="http://learn.caktusgroup.com/shipping-faster-django-team-improvements?utm_source=web&amp;amp;utm_medium=bloglaunch&amp;amp;utm_campaign=shippingfaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Shipping Faster: Django Team Improvements&lt;/a>”. We examined our existing processes, looked at best practices, and considered what has or hasn’t worked across our dozens of simultaneous projects.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>