Other topics in this series - Table of Contents In discussing interfaces in the first post, I had started off with a familiar example from OOP - a Shaper interface and a couple of concrete shapes that implemented the interface. But as Rob pointed out in this this groups threa...
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Other topics in this series - Table of Contents OAuth is currently the recommended standard for user authorization. I’ll limit this write up to just examples of using the OAuth standard with Google using Go. However there are a lot of good write ups on the web that explains...
Other topics in this series - Table of Contents This tutorial is almost exactly the same as http://golangtutorials.blogspot.com/2011/11/using-external-api-in-go-web-program.html, except that we will be doing the same program for the AppEngine. There are a few differences on ho...
Other topics in this series - Table of Contents In this tutorial, we will look at how to use an external API within our go program. The one that we shall use is the URL Shortener API. You can try its present functionality at http://goo.gl/. Enter a URL like http://golangtutor...
Other topics in this series - Table of Contents See also: Go Templates - Part 1 See also: Go Templates - Part 2 A template Set WAS a specific data type that allowed you to group together related templates in one group. Though it does not exist now as an individual data type,...
Other topics in this series - Table of Contents The Go installation that you have comes with a unit testing package called testing and a tool called go test that you can use to write unit tests. This unit testing framework, like frameworks in other languages, allow you to write...
Other topics in this series - Table of Contents In this section, we shall look at an existing demo program that we ran in the Installation and Setup tutorial. This will be a good place to start analysing and understanding Go programs for the Google AppEngine and will allow us t...
Other topics in this series - Table of Contents For a small beginner’s introduction to packages you can read my other writeup: Go ‘Hello World’ - A line by line approach. In this tutorial we will look at how you can work with the goinstall tool to create, install, and us...
Other topics in this series - Table of Contents See also: Go Templates - Part 1 See also: Go Templates - Part 3 - Template Sets There is some documentation, which I consider inadequate, about the template packages at http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/ and http://golang.org/pk...