This article was written for and published by Safari Books Online If you read my article titled Analyze Data With MongoDB and Go, then you will understand the context of this debate with the idea of open source. That article talks about an application we are building, and it publ...
In the documentation provided by the Go language team you will find great information on pointers and memory allocation. Here is a link to that documentation: http://golang.org/doc/faq#Pointers We need to start with the understanding that all variables contain a value. Based on t...
This article was written for and published by Safari Books Online My company is building a mobile application called Outcast. The idea behind Outcast is to give people who love the outdoors the ability to get ahead of the weather. By analyzing real time buoy, tide, lunar and sola...
Introduction This guest post is written by William Kennedy, author of the Going Go blog. 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.
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...