Introduction One of the more unique features of Go is how the language implements constants. The rules for constants in the language specification are unique to Go. They provide the flexibility Go needs at the compiler level to make the code we write readable and intuitive while...
Gogs: When you’re deploying a binary, you’re doing it Right. This post is published corresponding to the Gogs - Go Git Service v0.2.0 release.
Go development environment for Vim The reason for creating vim-go Go has a very versatile toolchain and commands that makes Go programming fun. One of the famous tools is gofmt, which automatically reformats the code according to some predefined rules.
At the company I work Pull Requests are part of our culture. When someone opens a Pull Request, we do Code Review. If we think it’s OK, we comment “+1”, or “-1” otherwise. We usually only merge a PR when it has 3 or more “+1” comments. Pa...
Introduction One of the first things I learned about in Go was using an uppercase or lowercase letter as the first letter when naming a type, variable or function. It was explained that when the first letter was capitalized, the identifier was public to any piece of code that wan...
Introduction As I improve my knowledge and framework for a Go based web service I am building, I continue to go back and enhance my Beego Sample App. Something I just added recently was providing localized messages for validation errors. I was fortunate to find Nick Snyder's go-i...
I encouraged people to start using git, showing some of its features.
One of the great features of golang is that you can compile executables for many different platforms and architectures from a single machine. It’s really nice to be able to provide executables of Hugo for a bunch of different platforms and architectures without having to have a...
If you are attending GopherCon 2014 or plan to watch the videos once they are released, this article will prepare you for the talk by Gustavo Niemeyer and Steve Francia. It provides a beginners view for using the Go mgo driver against a MongoDB database. Introduction MongoDB su...
Introduction In my last post called Concurrency, Goroutines and GOMAXPROCS, I set the stage for talking about channels. We discussed what concurrency was and how goroutines played a role. With that foundation in hand, we can now understand the nature of channels and how they can...