From christianzlong at gmail.com Thu Jul 2 21:33:26 2015 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:33:26 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] July meeting Message-ID: Our July meeting is on Monday, July 6 at 7pm. Map and directions http://foxpython.tumblr.com/meetings. See you there! From christianzlong at gmail.com Tue Jul 7 05:22:08 2015 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 22:22:08 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] July meeting notes Message-ID: Hello group. Goods meeting tonight. Aniko talked about his elephant habitat project. Mamadou talked about the database structures used to store GIS data. He also talked about the importance of clean datasets, and data validation. I gave a quick intro to the Hypothesis (http://hypothesis.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html) testing library. I based my presentation on this Hypothesis + Django talk (http://www.drmaciver.com/2015/06/hypothesis-for-django/) by David MacIver, the author of Hypothesis. Hypothesis is a property-based testing tool, inspired by Haskel's Quickcheck. Instead of manually writing a bunch of test cases, you tell it what kind of arguments a function takes, and then it generates a whole series of edge-case tests for you. The August meeting is on Monday, August 3, in Sage Hall, room 4412 (http://foxpython.tumblr.com/meetings) In September, the meeting is on September 14. It will be a crossover meeting with Mike Putnam's weekly Coder Cooperative event. It will be at the Appleton Makerspace. More details as we get closer. We hope to see you at a future event! Christian