From christianzlong at gmail.com Mon Oct 5 02:13:42 2015 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 19:13:42 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] October meeting Message-ID: Our meeting for October is tomorrow at 7. I'll be talking about Pytest fixtures, a nice way to reduce boilerplate in your tests. I hope to see you there. http://foxpython.tumblr.com/meetings Christian Long From christianzlong at gmail.com Tue Oct 6 03:50:29 2015 From: christianzlong at gmail.com (Christian Long) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 20:50:29 -0500 Subject: [FoxPUG] October meeting Message-ID: Good to see you at the meeting. I posted the notes on the site. http://foxpython.tumblr.com/post/130588411397/october-meeting-notes Here's a copy of the notes as well. See you in November! Christian ------ We had a good October meeting. Mamadou showed us some pictures from his trip to Ivory Coast. Christian presented on [Pytest Fixtures](https://pytest.org/latest/fixture.html). They make it easy to organize your test dependencies, and reduce boilerplate. Nick talked about the software development process at his new job. He recommended the [Partially Derivative podcast](http://www.partiallyderivative.com/). It's a weekly podcast about data science, statistics, and machine learning. Christian recommended the [Pycoder's Weekly](http://pycoders.com/) newsletter. It has a summary of new releases, howtos, articles and blog posts. Plus, a listing of python job openings. It's a useful way to quickly keep up with what's going on in Python. Our next meeting is on Monday, November 2, at 7pm. [Directions](http://foxpython.tumblr.com/meetings). We look forward to seeing you there.