[FoxPUG] July meeting notes

[Christian Long]

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