Other topics in this series - Table of Contents In preparation for a few beginner workshops, I created videos for people to follow to install and configure the Go development tools. Just adding them here. On Mac OSX: On Ubuntu Linux: The steps that I've followed are pretty much this (with my username 'vj'): Download the zip or .tar.gz...

Other topics in this series - Table of Contents Just a small post to make a note of something effective that I use. While working with the appengine, one often has to wade through lots of log statements, and having a lot of log statements is a good thing in my opinion. However, one can miss crucial information when the output isn’t very readable....

Other topics in this series - Table of Contents At the Meet the Go Team session at Google I/O 2012, a question that brought a bunch of different responses from the main people working on Go was ‘What is your favorite Go feature?’. But I lie. The question was actually ‘What feature or design decision of Go had the most surprising effect on how code...

Other topics in this series - Table of Contents Google Dev, 2012: Getting started with Go, Andrew Gerrand Boston GDG, 2012: A Tour of Go - interfaces, reflection, and concurrency. Builds a toy web crawler to demonstrate these, Russ Cox (Q&A page) A Hangout, 2012: Building Go Apps on App Engine, Johan Euphrosine, Andrew Gerrand Google IO, 2012: Go...

Other topics in this series - Table of Contents To assist those who are learning to also find available opportunities, I wanted to maintain a list of the early job postings. If you know of any other openings apart from this list or if any of these are not relevant any more, kindly let me know at sathishvj at gmail.com so that I may update this list. Job...

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 thread, "Go's interfaces aren't a variant on Java or C# interfaces, they're...