The Little Book of Semaphores, by professor Allen Downey, is a textbook that introduces the principles of synchronization for concurrent programming. It’s available under the GNU Free Documentation License. The book uses Python to illustrate the concepts, but I think Go is...
Hello, world! My regular blog doesn’t really have a main topic, but in recent years it has kept going along the general theme of politics in Costa Rica, with occasional wanderings into information technology. That (and the fact that it’s written in Spanish) has kept m...
Note: Swift bindings are highly experimental and subject to change. This work must currently be classified as preliminary work and we will be improving APIs in the long term. As a part of the Go Mobile, we have announced tools and packages that make language bindings from Java to...
This is just a quick overview of how I did it in antibody’s homepage.
I gave a little intro on Docker and talked about when to use it or not.
Composition goes beyond the mechanics of type embedding. It’s a paradigm we can leverage to design better APIs and to build larger programs from smaller parts. It all starts from the declaration and implementation of types that have a single purpose. Programs that are archi...
Note: This article extends Dave Cheney’s Go 1.5 cross compilers post. Cross compilers got easier with Go 1.5. You don’t have to bootstrap the standard library and toolchain as you used to do prior to 1.5. If cgo is not required The go tool won’t require any bootstrapping if...
In Go, it’s dead simple to get the value from an environment variable:
A few weeks ago someone created a thread on Reddit asking: In the context of a web application what would you consider a Go best practice for accessing the database in (HTTP or other) handlers? The replies it got were a genuinely interesting mix. Some people advised usin...