March Meetup 2016
Details
Hello!
PUGS is having a series of meetups before PyCon SG 2016 in June. If you are interested in giving a talk in PyCon, visit pycon.sg (http://pycon.sg)
Limited Space at the Venue
Please note that the venue can only host about 30-40 people. Please please DO NOT RSVP if you aren't 100% sure that you can attend the event. Also: If something unexpected came up, PLEASE do remember to un-RSVP to make up space for people on the waiting list.
Agenda
- ReactJS with Django
Abstract: ReactJS is an amazing new front-end framework developed by Facebook. Unfortunately, if you are new to JavaScript it is quite hard to setup and even harder to integrate with Django. Martin will demonstrate all necessary steps to implement and deploy your first little React components and hook them up with your existing Django website. The beauty of this approach is, that you can start with very small components and "reactify" your existing site in small steps, one component at a time, no big project migration is needed.
Speaker: Martin Brochhaus
Martin has been creating web applications for more than 15 years using various programming languages along the way. In 2010 he discovered the Python programming language and immediately fell in love.
In Singapore he founded the web development agency "Bitmazk Pte Ltd" and has since helped various clients and startups around the globe to get off the ground using modules and frameworks from Python's rich ecosystem.
Martin is an open source enthusiast with more than 150 repositories on GitHub and a very active member of the local Python User Group Singapore. He has been on the organizing committee of PyCon Singapore for the past three years and is currently fostering PyLadies Singapore to help more women to get into software development.
- TDD with pytest
Abstract: Learning TDD practice in Python can be challenging because there are several "competing" packages without an obvious "best way" to do it. Simplicity and readability are
core concepts in Python. In this talk I will try to show how it can be applied to testing by doing a side-by-side comparison of unittest/selenium vs pytest/splinter in a simple web application development context.
Speaker: Ivan Zimine
Ivan earned his PhD in Physics in 2003 from University of Geneva, Switzerland.
He spent 13 years doing academic research in medical physics, but then decided
that he really preferred writing software to scientific papers, and moved to IT
field. He has been an active member of the Python User Group Singapore since
2011.
- Singapore's Open Developer Event Statistics
Abstract:
https://data.webuild.sg/ : In this talk we will go through some statistics about Singapore's open developer events and open source projects through charts, graphs and some numbers. Ever wondered how many active developer groups are there? Or which are the Python open source projects that local developers are contributing to? More importantly, how can you get involved in this growing story of a young developer community? We will have fun and explore more through data!
Speaker: Sayanee Basu
Sayanee is an engineer with a focus on web technologies and electronics. She makes screencasts on developer tools called Build Podcast ( http://build-podcast.com/ ), curates Singapore's developer community with We Build SG ( https://webuild.sg/ ) and monitors her Basil plant ( http://basil.sayan.ee/ ) while dabbling with soldering, WiFi and Web Sockets.
March Meetup 2016