Code, Cloud Computing and Docker
Golang, a strong-typed language allows the ability to group constants together in parenthesis with the iota keyword. But coupling that with a string representation can add extra boilerplate code. Let’s first take a look at how constants and enums are created in Go.
A recap on constants and enums in Go…
For example, as constants by placing them in parenthesis:
const ( Dog = 0 Cat = 1 Bird = 2 )
Using the iota keyword to make an enum:
const ( Dog = iota Cat Bird
I see many Go projects on GitHub that mention publicly releasing binaries for their projects in the future when time permits. After releasing Depcon and Docker Volume Netshare I wanted an easy way to release updates so users could quickly grab the latest binary regardless of their platform.
There are many ways to do this and after researching various cross-compilation options and a place to store built binaries I settled on Goxc for compilation and Bintray to store the final binaries and packages. [Read more…]
The past 15 years of my career most of my work has been in Java, C++ or Objective-C for IOS applications. This past year I have been working a lot in Go and have had many of my Java peers ask me what makes Go so great to work with. Here’s 6 high level reasons why I love Go.
Go is an extremely easy language to learn. Go is a C-like language, both in it looks like C and allows you to reference C libraries. If your looking into learning Go I suggest going through A Tour of Go which can be done within a few hours. Another good reference is reading Pointers in Go
Over the past year I’ve been coding a lot in Go. Being used to working in mainly Java for the past 15 years I got used to shortcuts and other useful aids within Eclipse and 
IntelliJ. Don’t get me wrong I’m a big fan of Sublime but mainly use it for Markdown, Javascript and Python. I wanted try Go in one of the IDE’s I was familiar with.
I immediately thought I would try it within Eclipse with the Eclipse Go plugin. My initial experience proved it was not ready for prime time. It had many errors in the console, standard eclipse delays and it was a pain setting up the Go path properly. [Read more…]