Introduction In my post about building and running programs in Iron.Io, I needed to switched over to my Ubuntu VM to build linux versions of my test programs locally. I love the ability to have Ubuntu available to me for building and testing my code. However, if I can stay on the...
Nathan Youngman, with the help of others, has produced this document outlining months of research and discovery. I would appreciate everyone to honestly read it before continuing with my post. http://nathany.com/go-packages/ Mitchell Hashimoto also published this post on go-...
I always find it interesting when I realize that something I have been practicing or dealing with for a long time has a name. This time it happens to be race conditions. This is something you can’t avoid thinking about as soon as you have more than one routine sharing any k...
This article was written for and published by Gopher Academy I was looking at a code sample that showed a recursive function in Go and the writer was very quick to state how Go does not optimize for recursion, even if tail calls are explicit. I had no idea what a tail call was an...
Slices are used everywhere in my code. If I am working with data from MongoDB, it is stored in a slice. If I need to keep track of a collection of problems after running an operation, it is stored in a slice. If you don’t understand how slices work yet or have been avoiding...
I wrote a short Bash script to automatically reload Go programs. The script acts as a light wrapper around go run, stopping and restarting it whenever a .go file in your current directory or $GOPATH/src folder is saved. I've been using it mainly when developing web appl...
This post is about the Twitter change from Ruby to Java, some years ago, fact that, sadly, is still being used by some people to say that Ruby sucks and Java is the best language in the world. Before you read that, a little background on me would be good: Java is the first langu...
After working in Go for some time now, I learned how to use an unbuffered channel to build a pool of goroutines. I like this implementation better than what is implemented in this post. That being said, this post still has value in what it describes. https://github.com/goinggo/wo...
Processing HTTP requests with Go is primarily about two things: handlers and servemuxes. If you’re coming from an MVC-background, you can think of handlers as being a bit like controllers. Generally speaking, they're responsible for carrying out your application logic and wr...
I am working on building code to load polygons for the different Marine Forecast areas in the United States. These polygons need to be stored in MongoDB and there is a special way that needs to be done. It would not have been a big deal if it wasn’t for this fact. There isn...