Thanks Andy! Would anyone on this list be interested in doing a talk for a future meeting? We're loosely focussed on Python, but we'd be very happy to hear about other technologies that are useful for Python programmers, interesting applications, and so forth. :-)
Best wishes, Thomas On Fri, Aug 5, 2016, at 12:34 PM, Andy Random via Hampshire wrote: > > Thanks Thomas, > > It was an interesting meeting. > > CircleCI looks like quite a nice way to do automated testing on open > source projects without having to do the work to set up your own CI > infrastructure. > > Andy > > On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Thomas Kluyver via Hampshire wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > The next Southampton Python User Group talk will be a bit more hands on; > > it's best to bring a laptop if possible: > > > > Continuous Integration with CircleCI > > > > Date: 6 p.m. 4th August 2016 > > Venue: Nuffield Theatre Room 1083 (6/1083) > > Speaker: Ryan Pepper, Alvaro Perez-Diaz, Uni of Soton > > > > As usual, refreshments will be provided before the talk, and everyone is > > welcome to join us in the pub afterwards. > > > > There will also be a chance to give brief lightning talks - perhaps > > about other tools for testing code. If there's something you'd like to > > tell people about, let me know! > > > > ---- > > Continuous integration (CI) is an integral part of modern software > > development. It is very useful to check that changes have not broken > > features in software in an unexpected way, and it would be very rare to > > find software developers based in companies not using at least some form > > of regular testing to ensure that regression does not occur. Major > > scientific software projects such as Numpy, Scipy and Jupyter are good > > examples of how to use CI in practice. > > > > In this talk, we'll give a brief introduction to continuous integration, > > how it can be used in scientific software development, and demonstrate > > how to set up CircleCI to automatically test an open source project > > which is written in Python and stored on GitHub. Bring a laptop with you > > if possible, to get the most out of the talk. > > > > -- > > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
