On June 22nd through the 26th, Portland Oregon is hosting OSCON (Open Source Convention). The event is run by O’Reilly. After looking at the speakers list it appears it is going to be a great convention. There are three Gophers who will be giving talks. Check out the links:...
When I was coding in C/C++ it was imperative to understand type. If you didn’t, you would get into a lot of trouble with both the compiler and running your code. Regardless of the language, type touches every aspect of programming syntax. A good understand of types and poi...
Someone asked a question on the forum today on how to gain the benefits of inheritance without embedding. It is really important for everyone to think in terms of Go and not the languages they are leaving behind. I can’t tell you much code I removed from my early Go imple...
Someone asked a question on the forum today on how to gain the benefits of inheritance without embedding. It is really important for everyone to think in terms of Go and not the languages they are leaving behind. I can’t tell you much code I removed from my early Go imple...
Introduction The people behind Gopher Academy have been active Go developers and contributors for several years. The Go ecosystem is vibrant, active, and full of smart people, but we always felt like it was missing a strong presence outside of Google.
Multi-threaded applications are very complicated, especially when your code is not organized and consistent with how resources are accessed, managed and maintained. If you want to minimize bugs you need philosophies and rules to live by. Here are some of mine: Resource allocation...
Since I started writing code in Go it has been a mystery to me how best to organize my code and use the package keyword. The package keyword is similar to using a namespace in C#, however the convention is to tie the package name to the directory structure. Go has this web page t...
Some time ago, I posted here about a simple project that I’ve done in my post-graduation classes. Since I need it in other projects, and also some friends ended up using it in small projects, I decided to evolve it a little bit. So, this is just another post (better, I hope...
I have been writing Windows services in C/C++ and then in C# since 1999. Now that I am writing server based software in Go for the Linux OS I am completely lost. What is even more frustrating, is that for the first time the OS I am developing on (Mac OSX) is not the operating s...
I was really surprised how easy it was to read an XML document using the encoding/xml package that comes with the standard library. The package works by defining structs that map the XML document. If you need more flexibility then use Gustavo Niemeyer’s xmlpath package (fou...