Moving to Go: A Pragmatic Guide
Moving to Go You’ve read all the blog posts about how great Go is. You’ve lost patience with your monolithic framework of choice—Ruby on Rails, Django, etc.
Decode JSON Documents In Go
Introduction We are working on a project where we have to make calls into a web service. Many of the web calls return very large documents that contain many sub-documents. The worst part is, we usually only need a handful of the fields for any given document and those fields tend...
Why I use spf13-vim
spf13-vim, a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it’s vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplet...
Be Selected To Attend GopherCon 2014
Gopher Academy announced a great program today. Today I’d like to announce the GopherCon Scholarship Program. It’s goal is to increase the visibility of women in the Go community through the most direct path I can imagine: sponsoring their attendance to GopherCon 2014...
Go Package Management For 2014
Introduction In October 2013 I sent out a call to action to the Go community. I wanted to form a group of Gophers that would come together and help write a specification and build a working implementation of a package management tool. We are not there yet, but the group did accom...
GopherCon 2014 Scholarship for Women
Announcing the GopherCon Scholarship Program Today I’d like to announce the GopherCon Scholarship Program. It’s goal is to increase the visibility of women in the Go community through the most direct path I can imagine: sponsoring their attendance to GopherCon 2014.
Writing a Distributed Systems Library in Go
Writing a Distributed Systems Library in Go Introduction In early 2013, I needed to add distributed processing and storage to my open source behavioral analytics database.
Macro View of Map Internals In Go
Introduction There are lots of posts that talk about the internals of slices, but when it comes to maps, we are left in the dark. I was wondering why and then I found the code for maps and it all made sense. https://golang.org/src/runtime/hashmap.go At least for me, this code is...
This site is now powered by Turbolinks
I think that turbolinks is great: it mades it easy to add AJAX PushState to your Rails Applications. The only problem with that is that we can’t use it any WEB application, because it’s a Ruby Gem. So I did some ugly-but-easy hacks and add it to this very site. I will...
Go Advent Day 25 - Announcing GopherCon 2014 Speakers
Go Advent This posting brings to a close the Go Advent series that started on December 1st. We’ve had some amazing posts from all around the Go community.