Go on web

Go lang on OS X (lion)

hokapoka — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:43:05 +0000

Recently I’ve moved from linux to OS X, yep I’m using a so-called “hackintosh”. Having spent the past week learning how to live in the environment, which for the record I really live, it’s time to hack some Go! … Continue reading →

Golang FilePoller fspoll

hokapoka — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:24:56 +0000

When using the template package one doesn’t want to read the templates from the file system every time they are used. Likewise you want to restart the process just to test some minor change within the template. Go’s os/inotify package creates a file watcher, … Continue reading →

Fix for Unmarshal structs that contain slices merged into gomongo

hokapoka — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:28:29 +0000

With thanks to mikejs, again, for fixing gomongo. As mentioned previously there was a bug with the gomongo package that caused structs that contained slices not to Unmarshal correctally. This is now fixed, and all of my tests show that even … Continue reading →

GOAuth command Line example

hokapoka — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:00:14 +0000

At last… …I’ve added an example to the GOAuth pages! It’s a very trivial example, but should be sufficient to get to grips with the package. These examples been available on github for a while now : Original Example This … Continue reading →

gomongo Unmarshal issues with types that contain slices

hokapoka — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:57:12 +0000

There’s been an issue with the gomongo that I’ve been aware of for a while and I’ve just found a fix for it. If you were to take the example that I created here:- - http://go.hokapoka.com/golang/mongodb-golang-gomongo/ Which contains the following … Continue reading →

why only int and int64 [Post from golang-nuts Google Group]

hokapoka — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:28:10 +0000

Will your code run for 2 billion years, if so it might get effected by the y2b bug! This discussion on the golang-nuts google group, about why only int & int64 have been implemented, made me laugh, so I thought I … Continue reading →

New look for Golang.org

hokapoka — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:58:56 +0000

Check out the new look of golang.com, there’s even a new feature that allows you to edit, compile and run gocode called “playground”. (image from golang blog) As you would expect they have restricted the standard library so that the … Continue reading →

To new() or Not To new() [Link]

hokapoka — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:49:29 +0000

Rob ‘Commander’ Pike has asked for feedback on a proposal to remove the “new” function for a number of reasons, one of which is to reduce confusion for new users. There’s a lot activity around the Proposed Change to the language. Most people … Continue reading →

GOAuth – An OAuth Consumer Written in Go

hokapoka — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:25:25 +0000

We have just released GOauth an OAuth Consumer Written in the Go Programming language. GOAuth has been tested with twitter, Buzz & other Google OAuth products and has worked flawlessly. Opps removed some of the Bespoke google params, such as … Continue reading →

Mindchunk: A quick tour of Go’s dict package [Link]

hokapoka — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:35:23 +0000

Check out this post on the new addition of Golang “net/dict” package. Link : Mindchunk: A quick tour of Go’s dict package.