Go

Parsing Ransack strings to SQL queries in Golang

Recently we were working on migrating a Rails app to Go but, just before we started working, we realized that …
Go   •   March 10, 2015   •   13 min read

Reducing the number of error handling “if” statements (if != nil)

When I started learning Go, my code usually ended up looking like this: func GetDataFromFile(fileUri string) (*Data, error) { file, …
Go   •   February 26, 2015   •   9 min read

Golang Tags

Hey guys! If you are a Go developer, you probably have used tags inside your structs. A tag is an …
Go   •   February 17, 2015   •   8 min read

Sending SMS messages using Twilio and Golang

Recently, I had the opportunity to work on a Golang project which needed to send SMS messages. For this, I …
Go Web dev   •   January 6, 2015   •   5 min read

Sharing data globally within application with Gorilla Web Toolkit (golang)

If you have been a developer for several years, maybe you have been in a situation where you need to …
Go Web dev   •   December 16, 2014   •   4 min read

GoConvey and Deaf Grandma

If you have used Ruby on Rails, you may be familiar with Rspec, a gem that allows us to test …
Craftsmanship Go   •   December 12, 2014   •   10 min read

Understanding Google Cloud Datastore Keys (using Go)

If you are new to datastore, you will find that, unlike a relational database, Google Cloud Engine's datastore uses a …
Go Web dev   •   November 21, 2014   •   6 min read

Custom Error Marshaling to JSON in Go

In this post I want to go through an example of data marshaling in the Go language. The example starts …
Craftsmanship Go   •   November 13, 2014   •   4 min read