Edmonton Gohttps://edmontongo.org/Recent content on Edmonton GoHugo -- gohugo.ioenEdmonton GoWed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000October 2025 Go Meetuphttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2025-10/Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2025-10/ <p>Meetup #79 on October 15 in person at <a href="https://edmontonunlimited.com/">Edmonton Unlimited</a> at 6:00 pm.</p> <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/edmontonunlimited/events/311096839/">Meetup</a></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/latest">golangweekly.com latest</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="agenda">Agenda</h2> <h3 id="talk-1">Talk 1</h3> <p>Talk 1 synopsis</p> <h3 id="talk-2">Talk 2</h3> <p>Talk 2 synopsis</p> <h2 id="future-topics-discussion">Future Topics Discussion</h2> <p>Open discussion on topic for future talks, workshops, activities.</p> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup November</li> </ul>September 2025 Go Meetuphttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2025-09/Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2025-09/ <p>Meetup #78 on September 17 in person at <a href="https://edmontonunlimited.com/">Edmonton Unlimited</a> at 6:00 pm.</p> <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/edmontonunlimited/events/310741568/">Meetup</a></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/latest">golangweekly.com latest</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="agenda">Agenda</h2> <h3 id="benchmarking-redo">Benchmarking Redo</h3> <p>Talk about benchmarking in Go. <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2025-08/benchmarking">presentation</a></p> <h3 id="how-rsa-keys-work">How RSA keys work</h3> <p>Talk about exploring RSA keys in Go. By Andrew. <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2025-09/rsatalk">presentation</a></p> <h2 id="future-topics-discussion">Future Topics Discussion</h2> <p>Open discussion on topic for future talks, workshops, activities.</p> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup October</li> </ul>August 2025 Go Meetuphttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2025-08/Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2025-08/ <p>Meetup #77 on August 20 in person at <a href="https://edmontonunlimited.com/">Edmonton Unlimited</a> at 6:00 pm.</p> <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/edmontonunlimited/events/307855771/">Meetup</a></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/latest">golangweekly.com latest</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="agenda">Agenda</h2> <h3 id="go-125-release">Go 1.25 Release</h3> <p>Review new features of the latest Go release.</p> <h3 id="benchmarking-basics">Benchmarking Basics</h3> <p>Some beginning benchmarking basics.</p> <h2 id="future-topics-discussion">Future Topics Discussion</h2> <p>Open discussion on topic for future talks, workshops, activities.</p> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup September</li> </ul>July 2025 Go Meetuphttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2025-07/Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2025-07/ <p>Meetup #76 on July 16 in person at <a href="https://edmontonunlimited.com/">Edmonton Unlimited</a> at 6:00 pm.</p> <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/edmontonunlimited/events/309539422/">Meetup</a></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/latest">golangweekly.com latest</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="agenda">Agenda</h2> <h3 id="hello-world-your-first-go-program">Hello, World! Your first Go program</h3> <p>We will break down the basic of setting up a Go development environment. Also we will look at the basics parts of a Go program</p> <h3 id="go-todo">Go Todo</h3> <p>Look into a simple Go web-based todo app.</p> <h2 id="future-topics-discussion">Future Topics Discussion</h2> <p>Open discussion on topic for future talks, workshops, activities.</p>June 2025 Go Meetup is Back!https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2025-06/Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2025-06/ <p>Meetup #75 on June 18 in person at <a href="https://edmontonunlimited.com/">Edmonton Unlimited</a> at 6:00 pm MST Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/edmontonunlimited/events/307855771/">Meetup</a></p> <h2 id="agenda">Agenda</h2> <h3 id="go-meetup-is-back">Go Meetup is Back!</h3> <p>We are back in person! Join us for a discussion on the latest features of Go and how they can be applied to your projects.</p> <h3 id="why-go">Why Go?</h3> <p>Reasons why Go is an excellent choice for your project.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2025-06/why-go ">presentation</a></p> <h3 id="why-not-go">Why Not Go?</h3> <p>Reasons not to use Go for your project.</p>February 2022 Online: Go 1.18 New Featureshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2022-02/Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2022-02/ <p>Meetup #74 on February 17 Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/283694345">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We will be meeting online using this <a href="https://meet.jit.si/moderated/faf57089abb075e1133167ba9129db0f31ee7d315de64ad5e9e152aabd2276f7">Online Meeting</a> at 6:30pm MST.</p> <h2 id="agenda">Agenda</h2> <h3 id="go-118-new-feature-generics">Go 1.18 New Feature: Generics</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/ppreeper">Peter Preeper</a> reviews new awaited feature of Generics (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2022-02/generics">source</a>)</p> <h2 id="future-topics-discussion">Future Topics Discussion</h2> <p>Open discussion on topic for future talks, workshops, activities.</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/issues/399">golangweekly.com latest</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="articles--resources">Articles &amp; Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/883602/49e588e5d73cef84/">What's Coming in Go 1.18</a></li> <li>Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKu9HuOvaUY">Getting Started with Generics in Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://sethops1.net/post/go-generics-for-the-busy-gopher/">Go Generics for the Busy Gopher</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - March</li> </ul>April 2021 Online: Google Cloud Functionshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2021-04/Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2021-04/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/115">#73</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/wxtrfsyccgbjc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We will be meeting online using this <a href="https://meet.google.com/uhj-nnbg-dcg">Google Meet</a> at 6:30pm MST.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="google-cloud-functions">Google Cloud Functions</h3> <p>Matthias Stone will be presenting on basic practices of creating Google Cloud Functions in Go. (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2021-04/google-cloud-functions">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/">Golang Weekly</a></li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2022-02/">February 2022</a></li> </ul>February 2021 Online: Error handling discussionhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2021-02/Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2021-02/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/112">#71</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyccdbdc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We will be meeting online using this <a href="https://meet.google.com/uhj-nnbg-dcg">Google Meet</a> at 6:30pm MST.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="error-handling-discussion">Error Handling discussion</h3> <ul> <li>Peter Preeper will be walking us through the changes to the errors package <a href="https://blog.golang.org/go1.13-errors">introduced in Go 1.13</a>.</li> <li>We'll be watching <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c78U0MZ4b_c">Can We Panic Yet? Error Handling in Go</a> as a group.</li> <li>Discussion to follow.</li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go1.16">Go 1.16 is released</a></li> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/">Golang Weekly</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2021-04/">April</a></li> </ul>January 2021 Online: Four Go-to packageshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2021-01/Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2021-01/ <p>Meetup #70. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpycccbhc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We will be meeting online using this <a href="https://meet.google.com/moa-zbzy-fct">Google Meet</a> at 6:30pm MST.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="four-go-to-packages">Four Go-to Packages</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone">Matthias Stone</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2021-01/go-to-packages/4-go-to-packages.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="open-mic">Open Mic</h3> <p>Anyone can feel free to share something they are working on or learning that is related to the Go programming language.</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBfUint2hCE1JRxRWChloasB">GopherCon 2020 videos</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c78U0MZ4b_c">Can We Panic Yet? Error Handling in Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/path-security">Command PATH security in Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/generics-proposal">A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/ports">Go on ARM and Beyond</a></li> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/">Golang Weekly</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2021-02/">February</a></li> </ul>November 2020 Online: Open Michttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-11/Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-11/ <p>Meetup #69</p> <p>We will be meeting online using this <a href="https://meet.google.com/kac-pexq-tvb">Google Meet</a> at 6:30pm MST.</p> <h2 id="open-mic">Open Mic</h2> <p>Anyone can feel free to share something they are working on or learning that is related to the Go programming language.</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/11years">Eleven Years of Go</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2021-01/">January</a></li> </ul>October 2020 Online: Open Michttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-10/Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-10/ <p>Meetup #68</p> <p>We will be meeting online this month. Currently planning on using this <a href="https://meet.google.com/vsm-icht-rvg">Google Meet</a> at 6:30pm MDT, if that changes expect an update here and on <a href="https://twitter.com/edmontongo">Twitter</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="cli-tools-with-oauth">CLI tools with OAuth</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone">Matthias Stone</a></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon 2020</a> is entirely virtual (GoVirCon!)</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-11/">November</a></li> </ul>September 2020: Open Michttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-09/Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-09/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/110">#67</a>.</p> <p>We will be meeting in person at Startup Edmonton at 6:30 pm. Capacity is limited to 15 people.</p> <p>Pre-registration is required. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> by emailing <a href="mailto:gopher@nathany.com">gopher@nathany.com</a> to be added as a visitor. You will receive a link which includes COVID-19 pre-screening questions. Please note that registration at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpybcmblc/">Meetup</a> is not sufficient.</p> <p>Masks are required. Please maintain physical distance while in the space. Hand sanitizer is provided.</p> <p>Please have dinner before coming as no food will be provided.</p>March 2020 Online: Prometheushttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-03/Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-03/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/108">#66</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpybcfbfc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We will be meeting online at 6:30 pm. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFB53qigp1k">Live stream</a></p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="prometheus">Prometheus</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/glowatsk">Brandon Glowatski</a></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go1.14">Go 1.14 released</a> (<a href="https://golang.org/doc/go1.14">release notes</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-announce/Ix2U_8WWmXo/a2nJkNW5AAAJ">Go 1.14.1</a></li> <li>Polyglot YEG cancelled</li> <li>Startup Edmonton closed to the public</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-09/">September</a></li> </ul>February 2020: State of Gohttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-02/Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-02/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/107">#65</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpybcdbgc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get going at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a></p> <h2 id="video">Video</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c-1KJwSMCw">State of Go 2020</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/fBD63zkssQI">Go 1.14 RC1</a> (<a href="https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.14">release notes</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/issues/300">Golang Weekly</a></li> <li><a href="https://nostarch.com/blackhatgo">Black Hat Go</a> (book)</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/zhnrmrybcfbkb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Mar 14</li> <li><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/polyglot-yeg-2020-tickets-94714410351">Polyglot YEG</a> - Apr 4</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-03/">March</a></li> </ul>January 2020: profilinghttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-01/Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-01/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/106">#64</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpybccbkc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get going at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a></p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="profiling-with-pprof">Profiling with pprof</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone">Matthias Stone</a></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/ocSS1fQHBCk">Go 1.14 Beta 1</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/-sdUB4VEQkA">Go 1.13.7</a> security update</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/zhnrmrybcdbcb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Feb 1</li> <li>Polyglot YEG - Apr 4</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-02/">February</a></li> </ul>November 2019: module proxyhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-11/Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-11/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/105">#63</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyzpbhc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get going at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a></p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <ul> <li>Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqMxaO9d1NM">Go Module Proxy: Life of a Query</a> by <a href="https://github.com/katiehockman">Katie Hockman</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/10years">Go Turns 10</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go.dev">Go.dev</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/survey2019">Announcing the 2019 Go Developer Survey</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/zzmphryzqbkb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Dec 7</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2020-01/">January</a></li> </ul>October 2019: gRPChttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-10/Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-10/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/104">#62</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyznblc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get going at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a></p> <p>Food by <a href="https://improbable.io/">Improbable</a> (after the talk)</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="introduction-to-grpc">Introduction to gRPC</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/ScottBrooks">Scott Brooks</a></p> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/zzmphryzpbdb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Nov 2</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-11/">November</a></li> </ul>September 2019: Challengehttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-09/Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-09/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/102">#61</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyzmbfc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="whats-new-in-go-113">What's New in Go 1.13</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone">Matthias Stone</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2019-09/go1.13.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="challengs">Challengs</h2> <ul> <li>Bring a laptop or a friend with a laptop</li> <li>You should <a href="https://golang.org/doc/install">install Go</a> before arriving</li> <li>We will be pair programming so experience with Go is optional</li> <li>See the <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2019-09/pizza-challenge/pizza.slide">slides</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go1.13">Go 1.13</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-announce/7BsbaGsVTQ4/rNEvcwK3BgAJ">Go 1.13.1</a> - Sep 25</li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/module-mirror-launch">Module Mirror and Checksum Database Launched</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrqj0Jjh0M">Unit Testing Code with Hard-to-Mock Dependencies</a> by Adam Wolfe Gordon</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBdDyspRTNBIKES1Y-P__59_">GopherCon 2019 talks</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/zzmphryznbhb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Oct 5</li> <li><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hacktoberfest-yeg-2019-kickoff-tickets-73652983055">Hacktoberfest Kickoff</a> - Oct 7</li> <li><a href="https://www.edmontonstartupweek.com/">Edmonton Startup Week</a> - Oct 21-25</li> <li><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ladies-learning-code-yegtech-open-house-for-all-ages-edmonton-registration-68207615815">Canada Learning Code: YEGTech Open House</a> - Oct 26</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-10/">October</a></li> </ul>May 2019: Serverlesshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-05/Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-05/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/100">#60</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyzhbkc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="go-func-yourself-a-brief-introduction-to-serverless-go">Go Func Yourself! A brief introduction to serverless Go</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone">Matthias Stone</a> ([slides](golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present 2019-05/serverless-go/serverless.slide))</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/GhnThAAITFI">Go 1.12.5 and Go 1.11.10</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/rrntrqyzjbcb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Jun 1</li> <li><a href="https://polyglotyyc.ca/">Polyglot YYC</a> - Jun 2, Calgary</li> <li><a href="https://gocon.ca/">Gocon Canada</a> - May 31, Toronto</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> - Jul 24-27, San Diego</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-09/">September</a></li> </ul>April 2019: Deployment discussionhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-04/Mon, 22 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-04/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/99">#59</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyzgbdc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="go-and-docker">Go and Docker</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/ppreeper">Peter Preeper</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2019-04/godocker">code</a>)</p> <h3 id="deployment-discussion">Deployment Discussion</h3> <p>Deployment Discussion: All attendees will be invited to share their experience with deploying Go services.</p> <h3 id="video">Video</h3> <p>Video: Either <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeVxmQl9Wmk">Errors in Go 2</a> by Marcel Van Lohuizen, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKe5sX1dZ0k">Absolute Unit (Test)</a> by Dave Cheney.</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/survey2018-results">Go 2018 Survey Results</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/rrntrqyzhbgb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - May 4</li> <li><a href="https://gocon.ca/">Gocon Canada</a> - May 31, Toronto</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> - Jul 24-27, San Diego</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-05/">May</a></li> </ul>March 2019: functionalhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-03/Mon, 25 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-03/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/97">#58</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyzfbhc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="functional-go-how-well-does-go-support-functional-programming">Functional Go: How well does Go Support Functional Programming?</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/bertoldia">Axel von Bertoldi</a> ([slides](golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present 2019-03/functional-go/functional-go.slide))</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://gopherbot.com/">Gopherbot</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/using-go-modules">Using Go Modules</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/debugging-what-you-deploy">Debugging what you deploy in Go 1.12</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/rrntrqyzgbjb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Apr 6</li> <li><a href="https://gocon.ca/">Gocon Canada</a> - May 31, Toronto</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> - Jul 24-27, San Diego</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-04/">April</a></li> </ul>February 2019: videohttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-02/Mon, 25 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-02/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/96">#58</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyzdbhc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWRZjyBwcCQ">The State of Go: What's New Since Go 1.10</a> by Francesc Campoy</li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/hmnfpqyzfbdb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Mar 2</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-03/">March</a></li> </ul>January 2019: Go and Nodehttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-01/Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-01/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/95">#57</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyzcblc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="go-and-nodejs-a-comparison">Go and Node.js: A comparison</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/nathany/go-and-node-dot-js-a-comparison">slides</a>, <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2019-01/go-and-node">code</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw">Go 1.11.5 and 1.10.8 have been released!</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-announce/QsjKbyHTaa8/EGP_u0-_EQAJ">Go 1.12 Beta 2 is released</a> (<a href="https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.12">draft release notes</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/modules2019">Go Modules in 2019</a></li> <li><a href="https://research.swtch.com/deps">Our Software Dependency Problem</a> by Russ Cox</li> </ul> <h2 id="jobs">Jobs</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://cleannow.workable.com/">Go developer at CleanNow</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/hmnfpqyzdbdb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Feb 2</li> <li><a href="https://polyglotyeg.com/">Polyglot YEG</a> - Feb 9</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-02/">February</a></li> </ul>November 2018: Go and A.I.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-11/Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-11/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/94">#56</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyxpbjc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/survey2018">Go User Survey</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/9years">Nine years of Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIvL2ONhFBI">Go 2 Draft Specifications</a> by Rob Pike (video)</li> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/LqKOY_pH8u0">Transition to Go 2</a> by Ian Lance Taylor (video)</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxm3-iHEMy7IkU0_gwDVGAQ/videos">GopherCon EU 2018 talks</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeF3l-zmPsY">Intro to Go Modules and SemVer</a> by Francesc Campoy (video)</li> </ul> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="go-and-ai">Go and A.I.</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone">Matthias Stone</a> <a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone/tictactoe">GitHub</a> and <a href="http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book.html">RL Book</a></p> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/sjkjlqyxqbcb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Dec 1</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2019-01/">January</a></li> </ul>Go for Web Developers Workshop Part IIhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-10-22/Mon, 22 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-10-22/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/90">#55</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyxnbdc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="workshop">Workshop</h2> <p>Instructor: <a href="https://github.com/chrisolsen">Chris Olsen</a></p> <ul> <li>Bring a laptop with Go installed.</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2018-10/workshop-two/workshop-two.slide">Slides from the workshop</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_gRXOsrDAA">All About Go video</a> with Francesc Campoy</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeGxIOPLk9ELMBvf9FUM_s5Xd-fkPZKkB">GothamGo videos</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeGxIOPLk9ELbB1JEbThGPffhQvNlIpPa">Gopherpalooza videos</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZPhOgp4kDXkg2W8jL4U7GA/">LondonGophers videos</a></li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/paste/the-past-present-and-future-of-go2.pdf">The Past, Present, and Future of Go 2 slides</a> by Dave Cheney</li> <li><a href="https://golangshow.com/episode/2018/10-03-127-en/">GolangShow Episode 127</a></li> <li><a href="https://csnow.io/001">compSci.Now() Episode 1</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/appengine-go111">Announcing App Engine’s New Go 1.11 Runtime</a></li> <li><a href="https://arslan.io/2018/10/09/taking-an-indefinite-sabbatical-from-my-projects/">Taking an indefinite sabbatical from my projects</a> by Fatih Arslan (vim-go)</li> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/issues/233">Golang Weekly</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://hacktoberfestyeg.com/">Hacktoberfest</a> - Oct 22, 29</li> <li><a href="https://golab.io/">GoLab</a> in Florence, Italy - Oct 22-23</li> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qvnfrlyxpbfb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Nov 3</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-11/">November</a></li> </ul>Go for Web Developers Workshop Part Ihttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-10-15/Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-10-15/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/86">#54</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/254366653/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:00 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="workshop">Workshop</h2> <p>Instructor: <a href="https://github.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a></p> <p>Mentors: <a href="https://github.com/chrisolsen">Chris Olsen</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ppreeper">Peter Preeper</a></p> <ul> <li>We'll be working on a client for a JSON API.</li> <li>Bring a laptop with Go installed.</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2018-10/workshop-one/workshop-one.slide">Slides from the workshop</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go: Go for Web Developers Workshop Part II - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-10-22/">October 22</a></li> <li><a href="https://hacktoberfestyeg.com/">Hacktoberfest</a> - Oct 15, 22, 29</li> <li><a href="https://golab.io/">GoLab</a> in Florence, Italy - Oct 22-23</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-11/">November</a></li> </ul>September 2018: testinghttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-09/Mon, 24 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-09/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/87">#53</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyxmbgc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="unit-testing-code-with-hard-to-mock-dependencies">Unit Testing Code with Hard-to-Mock Dependencies</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/adamwg">Adam Wolfe Gordon</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/blob/master/2018-09/unit-testing.pdf">slides pdf</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ZNrGdT2aAdrNbX78lbNlQ/playlists">GopherCon UK videos</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx9QVEApa5BKLw9r8cnOFEA/videos">GopherCon videos</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umEDcjS8q_0&amp;list=PL0FYMIoo_gDiA6M0vm3ZycPJ8Gb7sBEmk">Mile High Gophers videos</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtoVuM73AmsJuBoOoI-12WR36nhvtlJ-A">GopherCon Europe videos</a></li> <li><a href="https://buff.ly/2okToPb">Go 2 Draft Designs</a></li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2Dnfr2a">Writing a Compiler in Go</a> by Thorsten Ball</li> <li><a href="https://programminggo.com/">Get Programming with Go</a> by Nathan Youngman and Roger Peppé</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qvnfrlyxnbjb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Oct 13 (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/88">tech t-shirt and sticker exchange</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://www.edmontonstartupweek.com/">Startup Week</a> - Oct 15-19</li> <li><a href="https://hacktoberfestyeg.com/">Hacktoberfest</a> - Oct 15, 22, 29</li> <li><a href="https://golab.io/">GoLab</a> in Florence, Italy - Oct 22-23</li> <li><a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-10-15/">Edmonton Go: Go for Web Developers Workshop Part I</a> - Oct 15 (<a href="https://techstarsstartupweekedmonton2018.sched.com/event/GANg">Startup Week Schedule</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-10-15/">Edmonton Go: Go for Web Developers Workshop Part II</a> - Oct 22</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-11/">November</a></li> </ul>August 2018: Go 1.11https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-08/Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-08/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/85">#52</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/bclwwpyxlbkc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="go-modules-quick-overview">Go modules quick overview</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/ppreeper">Peter Preeper</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2018-08/modules.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="news--articles">News &amp; Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go1.11">Go 1.11 is released</a> (<a href="https://golang.org/doc/go1.11">release notes</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq9zCm9qiQ6glsz8B3kwsxw/videos">Go Northwest videos</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> - Aug 27-30</li> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/251843374/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Sep 8</li> <li><a href="https://www.edmontonstartupweek.com/">Startup Week</a> - Oct 15-19 (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/86">workshop</a>)</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-09/">September</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/87">talk</a>)</li> </ul>July 2018: Hugohttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-07/Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-07/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/84">#51</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/ddzwmnyxkbfc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="hugo-tidbits">Hugo Tidbits</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/anthonyfok">Anthony Fok</a></p> <p>Behind the scenes with a contributor to Hugo.</p> <h3 id="whats-new-in-hugo">What's new in Hugo</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2018-07/pipes/pipes.slide">slides</a>)</p> <p>Hugo is a static site generator useful for blogs, marketing websites, and so on. We'll take a quick look at <a href="https://gohugo.io/hugo-pipes/">Hugo Pipes</a>, the new asset pipeline, and how it simplifies deployment.</p> <h2 id="workshop">Workshop</h2> <p>Build and deploy a tiny website with Hugo.</p>June 2018: Communityhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-06/Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-06/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/83">#50</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/ddzwmnyxjbhc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="discussion">Discussion</h2> <p>The Impact of Community by Cassandra Salisbury (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdIHODCbeRY">video</a>)</p> <p>Let's talk about the Go Community. The <a href="https://blog.golang.org/community-outreach-working-group">Community Outreach Working Group</a> (<a href="https://github.com/golang/cwg/issues">discussion</a>), Startup Week Community Event (Oct 15-19), Go adoption in Edmonton, and our meetup. (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2018-06/community/community.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="jobs">Jobs</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/cap/view/717839856/?pathWildcard=717839856&amp;trk=mcm">Software Engineer at CenturyLink</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qvnfrlyxkbkb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Jul 7</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.co.uk/schedule/">GopherCon UK</a> - Aug 1-3 (<a href="https://www.gophercon.co.uk/scholarships/">scholarships</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> - Aug 27-30 (<a href="https://womenwhogo.org/scholarships.html">scholarships</a>)</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-07/">July</a></li> </ul>May 2018: versionshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-05/Mon, 28 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-05/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/82">#49</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/ddzwmnyxhblc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="discussion">Discussion</h2> <h3 id="versioning-in-go">Versioning in Go</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://research.swtch.com/vgo-accepted">The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what?</a> by Russ Cox</li> <li><a href="https://sdboyer.io/vgo/failure-modes">Failure Modes</a> by Sam Boyer</li> <li><a href="https://codeengineered.com/blog/2018/golang-godep-to-vgo/">Go: From Godep To vgo, A Commentated History</a> by Matt Farina</li> <li><a href="https://codeengineered.com/blog/2018/golang-vgo-broken-dep-tree/">Go vgo: A Broken Dependency Tree</a> by Matt Farina</li> <li><a href="https://codeengineered.com/blog/2018/golang-vgo-semver-human-error/">Go vgo: Semantic Versioning and Human Error</a> by Matt Farina</li> <li><a href="https://sdboyer.io/vgo/intro/">An Analysis of vgo</a> by Sam Boyer (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/8jappi/an_analysis_of_vgo_sdboyerio/">reddit</a> | <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17063724">hn</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8nrpe0XWRg">The Principles of Versioning in Go</a> (video)</li> <li><a href="https://changelog.com/gotime/77">Dependencies and the future of Go</a> (podcast)</li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/versioning-proposal">A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301">proposal: add package version support to Go toolchain</a></li> <li><a href="https://sdboyer.io/blog/vgo-and-dep/">Thoughts on vgo and dep</a> by Sam Boyer</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbrZfPgNmfw">Building Predictability into Your Pipeline</a> with Russ Cox, Jess Frazelle, Sam Boyer and Pete Garcin (video)</li> <li><a href="https://research.swtch.com/vgo">Go &amp; Versioning</a> by Russ Cox</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LtMb090AZI">The New Era of Go Package Management</a> by Sam Boyer (video)</li> <li><a href="https://research.swtch.com/version-sat">Version SAT</a> by Russ Cox</li> <li><a href="https://golang.github.io/dep/">dep</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/go-package-management">Go Package Management</a> (Google Group)</li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go-brand">Go's New Brand</a></li> <li><a href="https://womenwhogo.org/scholarships.html">GopherCon Scholarships</a> (Women Who Go)</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/249064595/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Jun 2</li> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/247630881/">Exchange.js</a> - Jun 7</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.co.uk/schedule/">GopherCon UK</a> - Aug 1-3 (<a href="https://www.gophercon.co.uk/scholarships/">scholarships</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> - Aug 27-30 (<a href="https://womenwhogo.org/scholarships.html">scholarships</a>)</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-06/">June</a></li> </ul>April 2018: static siteshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-04/Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-04/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/75">#48</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/ddzwmnyxgbfc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="meet-hugo-the-static-site-generator">Meet Hugo the Static Site Generator</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/tammalee">Tammy Lee</a> (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1urWJlVGRKRL6F9KLYSmmvfWawFGvG4uFMpwxj1KDJ5Y/edit?usp=sharing">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="edmontongoorg-behind-the-scenes-a-website-built-with-hugo">EdmontonGo.org behind the scenes: a website built with Hugo</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/edmontongo.org">code</a>)</p> <h2 id="jobs">Jobs</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/jobs/1058656">Software Engineering Intern, Consul</a> (remote)</li> <li><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/">DigitalOcean</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.welovegolang.com/">we love go</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.golangprojects.com/">Go Jobs &amp; Developers</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.keyvalues.com/blog/how-engineers-can-stand-out-from-the-applicant-pool">How engineers can stand out from the applicant pool</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/interactive-go-programming-with-jupyter-93fbf089aff1">Interactive Go Programming with Jupyter</a> (<a href="https://github.com/yunabe/lgo">source</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://changelog.com/gotime">Go Time podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/">Golang Weekly</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="giving">Giving</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/83LhEocodD">Ashley McNamara After Care</a></li> <li><a href="https://womenwhogo.threadless.com/">Women Who Go threads</a></li> <li><a href="https://womenwhogo.org/donations.html">GopherCon Diversity Scholarship Donations</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://gothamgo.com/">GothamGo</a> - Apr 27</li> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/249064515/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - May 5</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.co.uk/schedule/">GopherCon UK</a> - Aug 1-3 (<a href="https://www.gophercon.co.uk/scholarships/">scholarships</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> - Aug 27-30</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-05/">May</a></li> </ul>March 2018: testinghttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-03/Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-03/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/79">#47</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/ddzwmnyxfbjc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="an-introduction-to-testing-with-external-services">An Introduction to Testing with External Services</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone">Matthias Stone</a></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/versioning-proposal">A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qvnfrlyxgbkb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Apr 7</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> - Aug 27-30</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-04/">April</a></li> </ul>February 2018: lightning talks and coding practicehttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-02/Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-02/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/77">#46</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/ddzwmnyxdbjc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h3 id="lightning-talks">Lightning Talks</h3> <ul> <li>Automate Git Repository Bisection with Go Test by <a href="https://github.com/ppreeper">Peter Preeper </a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2018-02/automate_gitbisect/automate_bisection.slide">slides</a>)</li> </ul> <h3 id="coding-practice">Coding Practice</h3> <p>Bring a laptop and/or a friend. We will be working in teams, so deep experience with Go is not required.</p> <p>Install Go on your laptop in advance or use <a href="https://play.golang.org">The Go Playground</a>.</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://golang.org/doc/go1.10">Go 1.10 released</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR7LPAXWfmw">The State of Go What's new in Go 1.10</a> by Francesc Campoy (video)</li> <li><a href="https://research.swtch.com/vgo">Go &amp; Versioning</a> by Russ Cox</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbrZfPgNmfw">Building Predictability into Your Pipeline</a> with Russ Cox, Jess Frazelle, Sam Boyer and Pete Garcin (video)</li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/survey2017-results">Go 2017 Survey Results</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/247059538/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Mar 3</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> - Aug 27-30</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-03/">March</a></li> </ul>January 2018: functional errorshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-01/Mon, 22 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-01/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/74">#45</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/ddzwmnyxcbdc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="functional-options-pattern">Functional Options Pattern</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/adamwg">Adam Wolfe Gordon</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/blob/master/2018-01/functional-options/2018-01-22_Functional%20Options%20Pattern.pdf">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="to-err-is-human">To err is human</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2018-01/err/err.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="jobs">Jobs</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://tendermint.com/careers/apps-developer">Software Developer at Tendermint</a> (Toronto)</li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/7VWC5pzjg7A/E5McanH0AgAJ">Go 1.9.3</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/mfyjMHbaeDA">Go 1.10 beta 2</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2017/go-1.10/">What's new in Go 1.10</a></li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-go-support-for-aws-lambda/">Go Support for AWS Lambda</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.twitch.tv/twirp-a-sweet-new-rpc-framework-for-go-5f2febbf35f">Twirp RPC framework from Twitch</a></li> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/issues/194">Golang Weekly</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/">GopherAcademy Advent 2017 series</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qvnfrlyxcbjb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Jan 13</li> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qvnfrlyxdbfb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Feb 3</li> <li><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> - Aug 27-30</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-02/">February</a></li> </ul>November 2017: Concurrencyhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-11/Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-11/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/71">#44</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/244119726/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="concurrency-in-go-an-introduction-to-channels">Concurrency in Go: An Introduction to Channels</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/qubies">Tobias Renwick</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2017-11">code</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/survey2017">Participate in the 2017 Go User Survey</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/8years">Eight years of Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://rakyll.org/pprof-ui/">The new pprof user interface</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/244899091/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Dec 2</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2018-01/">January</a></li> </ul>October 2017: Hacktoberfesthttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-10/Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-10/ <p>This month we will be joining <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hacktoberfest-edmonton-tickets-38871563894">Hacktoberfest</a> at Yellowhead Brewery in place of our regularly scheduled meetup.</p> <p>Or you can attend the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/243557298/">Edmonton Python</a> User Group at Startup Edmonton.</p> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/244068023/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Nov 4</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-11/">November</a></li> </ul>September 2017: Go Experiencehttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-09/Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-09/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/70">#43</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/242022549/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="my-first-three-months-with-go">My first three months with Go</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/Brett-A-T-Anderson">Brett Anderson</a> (<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/secret/vF8kG018yz3MlC">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="gotest-in-color">gotest in color</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/ppreeper">Peter Preeper</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-09/gotest-colors/gotest-colors.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://commandcenter.blogspot.ca/2017/09/go-ten-years-and-climbing.html">Go: Ten years and climbing</a> by Rob Pike</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWZ5uzn69eyM81omhIZLzvRhTOXvpeX9#golanguk2017">Golang Conference UK 2017 videos</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/rakyll/gotest">go test with colors</a> by JBD</li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@deckarep/the-new-kid-in-town-gos-sync-map-de24a6bf7c2c">The new kid in town — Go's sync.Map</a> by Ralph Caraveo III</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/242651392/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Oct 14</li> <li><a href="http://www.edmontonstartupweek.com/2017/">Startup Week Edmonton</a> - Oct 16 - 20</li> <li><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/hacktoberfest-edmonton-tickets-38871563894">Hacktoberfest</a> - Oct 23</li> <li><a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-10/">Edmonton Go Hacktoberfest</a></li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-11/">November</a></li> </ul>August 2017: Go 1.9 & SQLhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-08/Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-08/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/69">#42</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/mtqsmnywlblc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="intro-to-databasesql">Intro to database/sql</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/boersn">Nicholas Boers</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-08/intro-to-database-sql/database-sql.slide">slides</a>, <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2017-08/intro-to-database-sql/assess">code</a>)</p> <h3 id="test-helper-functions">Test Helper Functions</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/adamwg">Adam Wolfe Gordon</a></p> <h3 id="vendor">vendor/...</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/stellentus">James Bell</a></p> <h2 id="news--articles">News &amp; Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go1.9">Go 1.9 is released</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB9UUWNIhm4&amp;t=195s">Go 1.9 Release Party GoSF</a> (video)</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/davecheney/go-1.9-release-party/presentation.slide">Go 1.9 Release Party</a> (slides) by Dave Cheney</li> <li><a href="https://gopher.golangmarket.com/">Cute Gophers</a> (plushies)</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/241572140/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Sep 9</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-09/">September</a></li> </ul>July 2017: GopherCon recaphttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-07/Mon, 24 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-07/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/68">#41</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/241156924/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="activities">Activities</h2> <ul> <li>GopherCon recap</li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li>GopherCon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBdD9bru6IR-_WXUgJqvrtx9">videos</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBfhRZj3BDOrKdHzoafHsKHU">lightning talks</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gophercon/2017-talks">slides</a>, and <a href="https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/welcome-to-gophercon-2017">liveblog</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2">Toward Go 2</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/559">Go experience report: the append function</a></li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2017/07/22/should-go-2-0-support-generics">Should Go 2.0 support generics?</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/">TIOBE: Go language at all time high and in the top 10</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.alexellis.io/go-comes-to-64bit-arm/">Go 1.9 comes to 64-bit ARM</a></li> <li><a href="https://hunterloftis.github.io/2017/07/14/abundant-concurrency/">Abundant concurrency in Go</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.jessitron.com/2017/06/the-most-productive-circumstances-for.html">Hyperproductive development</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="jobs">Jobs</h2> <h2 id="local">Local</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.beamdog.com/jobs/10">Web Developer at Beamdog</a> (JavaScript, Ruby)</li> <li><a href="https://www.beamdog.com/jobs/11">DevOps Engineer at Beamdog</a> (Chef, AWS)</li> <li><a href="https://paper-leaf.com/hiring-ft-web-developer-edmonton/">Web Developer at Paper Leaf</a> (WordPress, Frontend)</li> <li><a href="https://ca.indeed.com/cmp/Janalta-Interactive-Inc./jobs/Net-Developer-Expertise-Machine-Learning-345f6176f6de0c72?q=janalta">.NET Developer With Expertise in Machine Learning at Janalta</a></li> <li><a href="https://ca.indeed.com/cmp/Janalta-Interactive-Inc./jobs/Digital-Site-Operation-Manager-1ff9bc6930376aba?q=janalta">Digital Site Operations Manager at Janalta</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="remote">Remote</h2> <ul> <li>Ardan Labs <a href="mailto:careers@ardanlabs.com">careers@ardanlabs.com</a> (Go)</li> <li><a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&amp;pg=0&amp;so=&amp;rw=1&amp;jid=290815&amp;jlang=EN&amp;pp=SS">Microsoft Azure</a> (Go)</li> <li><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/#current-openings">DigitalOcean</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="job-boards">Job boards</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/job-board/">Startup Edmonton job board</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.welovegolang.com/">we love golang</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.golangprojects.com/">Go projects</a></li> <li><a href="http://jobs.ladieslearningcode.com/">Ladies Learning Code</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/240402106/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Aug 12</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-08/">August</a></li> </ul>June 2017: Error loghttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-06/Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-06/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/65">#40</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/jptkwlywjbjc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="structured-logging">Structured logging</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/adamwg">Adam Wolfe Gordon</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/raw/master/2017-06/structured-logging/2017-06-26_structured-logging.pdf">slides PDF</a>, <a href="https://github.com/adamwg/structured-logging-example">code</a>)</p> <h3 id="effective-error-handling">Effective error handling</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/grrtrr">Gerrit Renker</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-06/error-handling/error_handling.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/Cf-NyL2N-jY">Go 1.9 beta 2</a></li> <li><a href="https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.9">Go 1.9 draft release notes</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/3201037/application-development/whats-new-in-googles-go-19-language.html">What’s new in Google’s Go 1.9 language</a> InfoWorld</li> <li><a href="https://www.usegolang.com/">Web Development with Go</a> Jonathan Calhoun</li> <li><a href="http://www.informit.com/store/ultimate-go-programming-livelessons-9780134757483">Ultimate Go Programming LiveLessons</a> William Kennedy</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> July 12-15</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-07/">July</a></li> </ul>May 2017: Generation dephttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-05/Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-05/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/64">#39</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/237438348/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="code-generation">Code Generation</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/grrtrr">Gerrit Renker</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-05/code-generation/code_generation.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="dep">dep</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-05/dep/dep.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="activities">Activities</h2> <ul> <li>Kick the tires on <a href="https://github.com/golang/dep">dep</a>, now that <a href="https://sdboyer.io/dep-status/2017-05-29/">the manifest files are considered stable</a>. Bring your laptop and a Go project if you have one.</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qvnfrlywjbfb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Jun 3</li> <li><a href="https://gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> July 12-15</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-06/">June</a></li> </ul>GopherFest 2017: Live from SFhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-gopherfest/Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-gopherfest/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/239918270/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 7:00 pm.</p> <p>NOTE: Please try to arrive before 7:30, as the doors will be locked after 7:30 pm. If you arrive late, ask to be let in.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Snacks sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <p>We will be streaming the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/238748981/">GopherFest 2017</a> event live from San Francisco.</p> <ul> <li>7:00 Socialize (snacks provided)</li> <li>7:55 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giUatBmmb_Y">Live streaming</a> begins in the Program Room</li> <li>10:00 Talks wrap up</li> </ul> <h3 id="state-of-go">State of Go</h3> <p>Francesc Campoy Flores</p>April 2017: Reactivehttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-04/Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-04/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/61">#38</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/238753916/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="diet-hacks">Diet Hacks</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/nathany/diet-hacks">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="reactive-programming-in-go">Reactive Programming in Go</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/grrtrr">Gerrit Renker</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-04/Reactive-Go/reactive_go.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/democamp/">DemoCamp 36</a> - May 2</li> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/239229606/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - May 6</li> <li><a href="https://gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> July 12-15</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-05/">May</a></li> </ul>March 2017: Concurrencyhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-03/Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-03/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/57">#37</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/237866060/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="goroutines">Goroutines</h3> <p>An introduction to goroutines by <a href="https://github.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-03/goroutines/goroutines.slide">slides</a>).</p> <h3 id="un-paralleled-concurrency">Un-Paralleled Concurrency</h3> <p>Introduction to concurrency patterns in Go by <a href="https://github.com/grrtrr">Gerrit Renker</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-03/basic_concurrency_patterns/basic_concurrency_patterns.slide">slides</a>).</p> <h3 id="gotrace">Gotrace</h3> <p>Concurrency tracer and visualizer (<a href="https://github.com/divan/gotrace">source</a>) demonstration by <a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone">Matthias Stone</a></p> <h3 id="the-atomic-package">The atomic package</h3> <p>Atomic memory primitives by <a href="https://github.com/lukaszroz">Lukasz Rozycki</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-03/atomic.slide">slides</a>).</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/women-who-go-to-gophercon">Women Who Go to GopherCon fundraiser</a></li> <li><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/2TbKqA8osZaWWJQD2">WWG Gophercon Scholarship</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/237866064/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - April 1</li> <li><a href="https://gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> July 12-15</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-04/">April</a></li> </ul>February 2017: Go 1.8 Release Partyhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-02/Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-02/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/54">#36</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/jptkwlywdbkc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="plugins">Plugins</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/grantdhunter">Grant Hunter</a>, voiced by <a href="https://github.com/mckayb24">Brett McKay</a> and <a href="https://github.com/linster">Stefan Martynkiw</a> (<a href="https://github.com/grantdhunter/go_plugin_talk">code</a>)</p> <h3 id="http-server-graceful-shutdown">HTTP Server Graceful Shutdown</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/lukaszroz">Lukasz Rozycki</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-02/http-shutdown.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="the-default-gopath">The default GOPATH</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/waltonr8">Rebecca Walton</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-02/gopath.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="sortslice">sort.Slice</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/stellentus">James Bell</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2017-02/sort-slice">code</a>)</p> <h3 id="databasesql-context">database/sql context</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone">Matthias Stone</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-02/db-context.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="whats-next-for-go">What's Next for Go</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-02/proposals/next.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://gopherize.me/">Gopherize.me</a> avatar generator</li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/7q2AdUHAuuI">Go 1.8 release</a></li> <li><a href="https://golang.org/doc/go1.8">Go 1.8 release notes</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-1.8-Release-Party">Go 1.8 release party</a></li> <li>State of Go (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY4UKkgb5IY">video</a>, <a href="https://talks.golang.org/2017/state-of-go.slide">slides</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/golang/dep">Go dependency tool</a> official pre-alpha</li> </ul> <h2 id="jobs">Jobs</h2> <ul> <li>Betable Sr. Software Engineer (Platform) - <a href="https://corp.betable.com/careers">https://corp.betable.com/careers</a></li> <li>Cisco AMP Threat Grid QA - <a href="mailto:aneitsch@cisco.com">aneitsch@cisco.com</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qvnfrlywfbgb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - March 4</li> <li><a href="https://gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> July 12-15</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-03/">March</a></li> </ul>January 2017: Interfaces and Protocol Buffershttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-01/Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-01/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/53">#35</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/236668791/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="interfaces-in-go">Interfaces in Go</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/mckayb24">Brett McKay</a> is speaking about interfaces in Go (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-01/simple_interface/talk.slide">slides</a>).</p> <h3 id="protocol-buffers-and-grpc-in-go">Protocol Buffers and gRPC in Go</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/adamwg">Adam Wolfe Gordon</a> is presenting Protocol Buffers and gRPC in Go. (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2017-01/protobufs-and-grpc/grpc.slide">slides</a>, <a href="https://github.com/adamwg/proto-example">code</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/iI13Nx0BP2E">Go 1.8 Release Candidate 2</a></li> <li><a href="https://beta.golang.org/doc/go1.8">Go 1.8 draft release notes</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2016/saga-go-dependency-management/">The Saga of Go Dependency Management</a></li> <li><a href="http://gobuffalo.io/">Buffalo web development eco-system</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.bigmarker.com/gopheracademy/Introduction-to-Buffalo-Web-Development-in-Go">Web Development with Buffalo</a> - Jan 31 at noon MST</li> <li><a href="https://www.bigmarker.com/gopheracademy/Rapid-Web-Development-with-Buffalo-and-Ponzu">Rapid Web Development with Buffalo and Ponzu</a> - Feb 2 at 11am MST</li> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qvnfrlywdbgb/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Feb 4</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2017-02/">February</a></li> <li><a href="https://gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> July 12-15</li> </ul>November 2016: Concurrency and GOPLhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-11/Mon, 28 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-11/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/51">#34</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/jptkwlyvpblc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="reasons-to-read-the-go-programming-language">Reasons to read The Go Programming Language</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/torbiak">Jordan Torbiak</a> (<a href="https://github.com/torbiak/goplreview/gopl.slide">slides</a>)</p> <p>The Go Programming Language provides great value as a reference in general and in particular for testing and reflection, as a collection of interesting exercises in a reasonable order, and as a comprehensive textbook after more introductory material like the Tour and Effective Go.</p>October 2016: Barriershttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-10/Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-10/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/50">#33</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/234270867/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="barrier-pattern-in-go-with-context">Barrier Pattern in Go (with Context)</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/grrtrr">Gerrit Renker</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2016-10/barrier_pattern_with_context/barrier_pattern.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="video-idiomatic-go-tricks">Video: Idiomatic Go Tricks</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/matryer">Mat Ryer</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeetIgNeIkc">video</a>, <a href="https://github.com/matryer/present/idiomatic-go-tricks/main.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/f5egnoSnBjY">Go 1.7.3 released</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.thedotpost.com/conference/dotgo-2016">dotGo videos are being posted</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/davecheney/status/789715561043288064">Go 1.8 compiler is 12% faster (so far)</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/234554242/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Nov 5</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-11/">November</a></li> </ul>September 2016: Rusthttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-09/Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-09/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/49">#32</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/jptkwlyvmbjc/">Meetup</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>Food sponsored by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="using-rust">Using Rust</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/grantdhunter">Grant Hunter</a> shares his experience (<a href="https://github.com/grantdhunter/grafanotate">code</a>).</p> <h3 id="using-rust-on-habitat">Using Rust on Habitat</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/fnichol">Fletcher Nichol</a> shares his experience using Rust to work on <a href="https://www.habitat.sh/">Habitat</a> over the last year.</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDWZ5uzn69eyh791ZTkEA9OaTxVpGY8_g">Golang UK videos are out</a></li> <li><a href="http://confreaks.tv/events/rustconf2016">Rust Conf videos</a> (coming soon)</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/234109381/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Oct 1</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-10/">October</a></li> </ul>August 2016: Movie timehttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-08/Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-08/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/48">#31</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/231587723/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cjq60em8kdig3le1167etu7fgi8?authkey=CLq6mvKwxrmR7gE">Google+</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="movie-night">Movie Night</h2> <p>We watched two talks from GopherCon 2016:</p> <h3 id="navigating-unfamiliar-code-with-the-go-guru">Navigating Unfamiliar Code with the Go Guru</h3> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak97oH0D6fI">Navigating Unfamiliar Code with the Go Guru</a> (<a href="https://github.com/gophercon/2016-talks/tree/main/AlanDonovan-GoGuru">slides</a>) by Alan Donovan</p> <h3 id="go-for-data-science">Go for Data Science</h3> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5tDubyXLrQ">Go for Data Science</a> (<a href="https://github.com/gophercon/2016-talks/tree/main/DanielWhitenack-GoForDataScience">slides</a>) by Daniel Whitenack</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go1.7">Go 1.7 released</a> (<a href="https://github.com/bradfitz/talk-2016-08-16-seattle-go-1.7/go1.7.slide">slides</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBdliXelGAItjzTMxy2WQh0P">GopherCon 2016 videos</a> (<a href="https://github.com/gophercon/2016-talks">slides</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/freeformz/talks/20160712_gophercon/talk.slide">State of Go 2016</a> survey results by Edward Muller</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_BzFbxG2za3bp5NRRRXJSw">Just for Func</a> video series by Francesc Campoy</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16721">Proposal: sort: make sorting easier</a> (Go 1.8)</li> </ul> <h2 id="articles">Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go1.7-binary-size">Smaller Go 1.7 binaries</a> by David Crawshaw</li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@benbjohnson">Go Walkthrough series</a> by Ben Johnson</li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2016/08/20/solid-go-design">SOLID Go Design</a> by Dave Cheney</li> <li><a href="https://elliot.land/go-subtests-and-sub-benchmarks">Go: Subtests and Sub-benchmarks</a> by Elliot Chance</li> <li><a href="https://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2016/08/go-1.7-ssa.html">Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7</a> by Paul Smith</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/gobridge/events/233067903/">GoBride Remote Meetup</a> - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Interface - Wed, Aug 24 at 7pm MDT</li> <li><a href="https://changelog.com/gotime/">GoTime podcast</a> - tune in live on Thursdays at 1pm MDT</li> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/231796693/">Monthly Hack Day</a> - Sat, Sep 10</li> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/231175235/">DemoCamp 32</a> - Thu, Sep 22</li> <li><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/edmonton-national-learn-to-code-day-2016-interactive-stories-game-making-with-html-css-on-september-tickets-26414846517">National Learn To Code Day</a> - Sat, Sep 24</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-09/">September</a></li> </ul>July 2016: Show & tellhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-07/Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-07/ <p>Meetup <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/47">#30</a>. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/231014257/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/ctjco690cipjj4jo66lbjimn2q4?authkey=CJvV4rKBxe_rZA">Google+</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="discussion">Discussion</h2> <p>There are no formal presentations this month. We have room for a small group in Meeting Room #1 and can enjoy pizza, discussions, and show and tell.</p> <h2 id="news--articles">News &amp; Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/zIHTDAHhqVU">Go 1.7 Release Candidate 3</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/gophercon-2016/gophercon2016-retrospective/">GopherCon 2016 - Retrospective</a> by Erik St. Martin and Brian Ketelsen</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/gophercon/2016-talks">GopherCon 2016 - Talks</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@mattetti/go-is-for-everyone-b4f84be04c43#.ma8y793de">Go is for everyone</a> by Matt Aimonetti</li> <li><a href="https://changelog.com/gotime/">Go Time podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/gtank/cryptopasta">CryptoPasta</a> by George Tankersley</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Monthly Hack Day - <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/new-events/2016/3/14/monthly-hack-day">August 6th</a></li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-08/">August</a></li> </ul>June 2016: BYOC (Bring Your Own Code)https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-06/Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-06/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/231014188/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cqtfng49te4p75q8ghs3o9sg23k?authkey=CNj-p_rZia2AhQE">Google+</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Food provided by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="byoc-bring-your-own-code">BYOC (Bring Your Own Code)</h3> <p>We are encouraging attendees to bring a small Go code sample that they've written and would like to share. We plan to break into small groups to discuss and learn together. Consider things you have written that you found neat, challenging, or are proud of. Smaller is better.</p>May 2016: App Engine, Stateful Messaginghttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-05/Mon, 30 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-05/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/227020733/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cgl9ql88dcn4d56jgp1jr6flqos?authkey=CI3SxKqRtsjJSw">Google+</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Food provided by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="google-app-engine">Google App Engine</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/chrisolsen">Chris Olsen</a> will be sharing what he has learned about <a href="https://cloud.google.com/appengine/">using Google App Engine</a>. (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2016-05/appengine/appengine.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="stateful-messaging">Stateful Messaging</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/grrtrr">Gerrit Renker</a> will be talking about <a href="http://nanomsg.org/">stateful messaging</a> (aka &quot;Scalability Protocols&quot;) using <a href="https://github.com/go-mangos/mangos">go-mangos</a>. (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2016-05/Stateful-Messaging-in-Go/slides/sp.slide">slides</a>, <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2016-05/Stateful-Messaging-in-Go/demo">demo code</a>)</p> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Monthly Hack Day - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/231029062/">June 4</a> (Registration required)</li> <li>GopherCon 2016 Kickoff Party - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/Denver-Go-Language-User-Group/events/229341754/">July 10</a></li> <li>GopherCon <a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">July 11-13</a></li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-06/">June</a></li> </ul>April 2016: Testinghttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-04/Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-04/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/228742988/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cjkem5cko89nmcejcrf93ikmjtk?authkey=CL__7rGura3EUw">Google+</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Food provided by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="testing-concurrent-things">Testing concurrent things</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/matthias-stone">Matthias Stone</a> - <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2016-04/concurrent-testing.slide">Slides</a></p> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Monthly Hack Day - <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/new-events/2016/4/2/monthly-hack-day">April 2</a> (Registration required)</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-05/">May</a></li> </ul>March 2016: Web appshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-03/Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-03/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/227020698/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/ctdcmsu8qeg3mmnajdl6j7vdns8?authkey=CJG1wvLprYz7qwE">Google+</a>.</p> <p>We get things started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Food provided by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>eBook Giveaway from <a href="https://manning.com/">Manning Publications</a>:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/generative-art">Generative Art</a> by Matt Pearson</li> <li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-algorithms">Grokking Algorithms</a> by Aditya Y. Bhargava</li> <li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/learn-go">Learn Go</a> by Nathan Youngman</li> </ul> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="shopping-is-hard-lets-build-a-web-app">Shopping is hard, let's build a web app</h3> <p><a href="https://github.com/chrisolsen">Chris Olsen</a> will touch on many of the things that are required to create a working web application in Go. (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2016-03/Shopping%20is%20Hard/go__shopping-is-hard.slide">slides</a>)</p>February 2016: Go 1.6 release partyhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-02/Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-02/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhyvdbdc/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/co9qsfsbimjdb1p5qdbuomnuqm8?authkey=CPPGj8eOxoHMmwE">Google+</a>.</p> <p>We get things started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Food provided by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a>.</p> <p>Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p>eBook Giveaway from <a href="https://manning.com/">Manning Publications</a>:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/go-in-practice">Go in Practice</a> by Matt Butcher and Matt Farina</li> <li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/mongodb-in-action-second-edition">MongoDB in Action, Second Edition</a> by Kyle Banker, Peter Bakkum, Shaun Verch, Douglas Garrett, and Tim Hawkins</li> <li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/redis-in-action">Redis in Action</a> by Josiah Carlson</li> </ul> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <p>Go 1.6 was released on February 17th. We will be discussing the changes during our February meetup.</p>January 2016: Gala Recaphttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-01/Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-01/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/226119364/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c5491cq1ekhpu0um1ouqhk3oulg?authkey=CJ_y9ruqyvvWMQ">Google+</a>.</p> <p>We get things started at 6:30 pm.</p> <h2 id="sponsors">Sponsors</h2> <p>Pizza provided by <a href="https://bellstone.ca/">Bellstone Engineering</a> and they're hiring. Venue provided by <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/">Startup Edmonton</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://manning.com/">Manning Publications</a> eBook Giveaway:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/go-web-programming">Go Web Programming</a> by Sau Sheong Chang</li> <li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/algorithms-of-the-intelligent-web-second-edition">Algorithms of the Intelligent Web, Second Edition</a> by Douglas G. McIlwraith, Haralambos Marmanis, and Dmitry Babenko</li> <li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/secrets-of-the-javascript-ninja-second-edition">Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Second Edition</a> by John Resig, Bear Bibeault, and Josip Maras</li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://beta.golang.org/doc/go1.6">Go 1.6 is coming soon</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="gala-recap">Gala Recap</h2> <p>This will be an informal meetup where those participating in the <a href="https://edmontongo.org/2016-gala/">Gopher Gala</a> will have a chance to share what they built.</p>Gopher Gala 2016: A distributed hackathon.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-gala/Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-gala/ <h2 id="registration">Registration</h2> <p><a href="http://gophergala.com/">Gopher Gala</a> is a distributed hackathon happening January 22-24 (registration is required).</p> <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/227274239/">Meetup</a> if you are joining us at Startup Edmonton. Snacks and beverages will be provided.</p> <p>Optionally <a href="https://bit.ly/go-slack-signup">sign up for the Gopher team on Slack</a> and join the <strong>#edmontongo</strong> channel for communication before and during the event.</p> <h2 id="schedule">Schedule</h2> <h3 id="friday-6pm---10pm">Friday 6pm - 10pm</h3> <p>The hackathon starts at 6pm. Come early to find your team members and get ready.</p>Two Year Recap: Thank youhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/recap/Wed, 25 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/recap/ <p>Two years ago Edmonton Go was just an idea. Thanks to Startup Edmonton for generously providing the space, and to Daniel Huckstep for the requisite kick-in-the-pants, January 27, 2014 marked our first meetup.</p> <p>Together we've enjoyed talks, discussions, code reading, hack nights, videos, workshops, cake eating, sphero battles, and other activities. A dozen people delivered 34 talks, sharing their knowledge and experience with everyone. Thank you so much for your contribution!</p>November 2015: Job queueshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-11/Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-11/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhytpbfc/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cdd6pk6dbgphjfc2l7siladbp4s?authkey=CKGC5cHphZm0wgE">Google+</a>.</p> <p>Food at 6:30 pm. News and Talks at 6:45.</p> <p>eBook Giveaway: <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/r-in-action-second-edition">R in Action, Second Edition</a>, <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/unity-in-action">Unity in Action</a> and <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/go-in-action">Go in Action</a></p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="messaging-patterns-and-job-queues-in-go">Messaging patterns and job queues in Go</h3> <p>Gerrit Renker (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/raw/master/2015-11/MOMs/Messaging_and_Job_Queues_in_Go.pdf">pdf slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="the-legacy-of-go">The Legacy of Go</h3> <p>Dave Cheney (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2d3KfRt4XU">video</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/6years">Six years of Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://golang.org/conduct">Go Community Code of Conduct</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeGxIOPLk9ELh9tsPZMzau6CzMjfMzp9-">GothamGo videos</a></li> <li><a href="http://features.slashdot.org/story/15/11/18/1748247/interviews-alan-donovan-and-brian-kernighan-answer-your-questions">Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Your Questions</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/97226415@N08/sets/72157661133005275">dotGo photos</a> (videos coming soon)</li> <li><a href="http://go-proverbs.github.io/">Go Proverbs</a> from GopherFest SV</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Monthly Hack Day - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/226796399/">December 5</a> (Registration required)</li> <li>Gopher Gala - <a href="http://gophergala.com/">January 22-24</a> (Registration required)</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2016-01/">January</a></li> </ul>October 2015: Stupid Gopher Trickshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-10/Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-10/ <figure class="right"><img src="https://edmontongo.org/images/halloween_gopher.png" width="350"> </figure> <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhytnbjc/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c7cpb2kri2gcqs6dhvfl8rb0ekk?authkey=CO-VhMGsvergcA">Google+</a>.</p> <p>Food at 6:30 pm. News and Talks at 6:45.</p> <p>eBook Giveaway: <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/jquery-in-action-third-edition">jQuery in Action, Third Edition</a> and <a href="http://yng.mn/learngolang">Learn Go</a></p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="the-go-present-tool">The <code>go present</code> tool</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthiasStone">Matthias Stone</a></p> <h3 id="stupid-gopher-tricks">Stupid Gopher Tricks</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/enneff">Andrew Gerrand</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UECh7X07m6E">video</a> and discussion)</p> <h2 id="books--resources">Books &amp; Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.gopl.io/">The Go Programming Language</a> by Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan</li> <li><a href="https://www.manning.com/books/go-in-action">Go in Action</a> by William Kennedy with Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin</li> <li><a href="http://yng.mn/learngolang">Learn Go</a> by Nathan Youngman</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Startup Week - <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/edmonton-startup-week/">October 19-22</a></li> <li>Monthly Hack Day and Code Retreat - <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/new-events/2015/11/7/monthly-hack-day">November 7</a> (RSVP required)</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-11/">November</a></li> </ul>September 2015: gorename and FFIhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-09/Mon, 28 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-09/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhytmblc/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/clo76cn0lupeiitvms55qgleav8?authkey=CPeO4bfCsa3K4wE">Google+</a>.</p> <p>Food at 6:30 pm, sponsored by Bellstone.</p> <p>News and Talks at 6:45.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="gorename---how-the-sausage-is-made">gorename - how the sausage is made</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthiasStone">Matthias Stone</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2015-09/tooling.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="embedding-go-into-c">Embedding Go into C</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/scottbrooksca">Scott Brooks</a></p> <h2 id="news-and-articles">News and Articles</h2> <h2 id="inside-go">Inside Go</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-announce/QU4XU72Jr7Y/ZqgZT3hRCwAJ">Go 1.5.1 released</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12416-cgo-pointers.md">Proposal: Rules for passing pointers between Go and C</a></li> <li>html/template <code>{{block}}</code> syntax for Go 1.6 (<a href="https://github.com/golang/go/commit/12dfc3bee482f16263ce4673a0cce399127e2a0d#diff-6b406654c58bd582df175f7d6fd9c6fbR127">example</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/net/http2">net/http2 moved, work resumes</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="community">Community</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@GolangBridge/announcing-the-go-forum-746d446d3730">Announcing: The Go Forum</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.mailjet.com/blog/what-golang-uk-taught-me-about-community/">What Golang UK Taught Me About Community</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ZNrGdT2aAdrNbX78lbNlQ/videos">Golang UK Conference videos</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="go-adoption">Go Adoption</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/otto.html">Otto: the successor to Vagrant</a> (from HashiCorp)</li> <li><a href="https://keybase.io/docs/cli_kbstage">Keybase command line beta</a> (was JavaScript)</li> <li><a href="https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3897-go-at-basecamp">Go at Basecamp</a> by Noah Lorang</li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@voxxit/sorry-ruby-i-think-i-ve-fallen-for-go-2e92ce1b356">Sorry, Ruby — I think I’ve fallen for Go!</a> by Joshua Delsman</li> </ul> <h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-code-mobile-canada-s-first-coding-truck#/story">code:mobile: Canada's First Coding Truck</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-our-new-canadian-datacenter-tor1/">DigitalOcean's New Canadian Datacenter</a></li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/elastic-beanstalk-update-support-for-java-and-go/">Elastic Beanstalk Update: Support for Go</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Monthly Hack Day - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/223569638/">October 3</a> (RSVP required)</li> <li>Edmonton Startup Week - <a href="https://www.startupedmonton.com/edmonton-startup-week/">October 19-22</a></li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-10/">October</a></li> </ul>August 2015: Reflection and SDNhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-08/Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-08/ <p>Food at 6:30 pm. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhytlbgc/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cs7d4s4gmhl1m16l5u9j8bc32po?authkey=CIbzubDU-oul2AE">Google+</a>.</p> <p>News and Talks at 6:45.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="introduction-to-reflection">Introduction to Reflection</h3> <p>Nicholas Boers (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/2015-08/reflection/reflect-talk.slide">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="software-defined-networking">Software Defined Networking</h3> <p>Gerrit Renker and <a href="https://twitter.com/ccollicutt">Curtis Collicutt</a></p> <h3 id="whats-new-in-go-15">What's New in Go 1.5</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthiasStone">Matthias Stone</a></p> <h2 id="news-and-articles">News and Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go1.5">Go 1.5 is released</a> (<a href="https://golang.org/doc/go1.5">release notes</a>)</li> <li><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/08/googles-house-programming-language-now-runs-phones/">Google's In-House Programming Language Now Runs on Phones</a> Wired</li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2015/08/22/cross-compilation-with-go-1-5">Cross compilation with Go 1.5</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="online-talks">Online Talks</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/gophercon2015">GopherCon 2015 Roundup</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBf-_z-gHCOR2N156Nw930Hm">videos</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ntRZ1ySWBeHqlHM8DmvS8axgbrpvF9b">lightning talk videos</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://talks.golang.org/2015/tricks.slide">Stupid Gopher Tricks</a> by Andrew Gerrand (Golang UK)</li> </ul> <h2 id="learning-resources">Learning Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920044482.do">Mark Bates on Go Core Techniques and Tools</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Monthly Hack Day <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/223221622/">September 12</a> (RSVP required)</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-09/">September</a></li> </ul>July 2015: GopherCon recaphttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-07/Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-07/ <p>Food at 6:30 pm. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/223296425/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cdjv1ghv7mube3lerp5j4nuhtmo?authkey=CLWp67i4sb-m6wE">Google+</a>.</p> <p>News and Talks at 6:45.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="gophercon-recap">GopherCon recap</h3> <p><a href="https://speakerdeck.com/nathany/gophercon-recap">slides</a></p> <h3 id="command-line-user-interfaces">Command line user interfaces</h3> <p><strong>Gerrit Renker</strong></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/">GopherCon live blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://beta.golang.org/doc/go1.5">Go 1.5 beta</a></li> <li><a href="http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2015/07/App-Engine-for-Go-is-Generally-Available.html">App Engine for Go is Generally Available</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/7/7/go_support_now_official_on_heroku">Go support now official on Heroku</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="articles">Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://blog.parse.com/learn/how-we-moved-our-api-from-ruby-to-go-and-saved-our-sanity/">How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity</a> by Charity Majors (Parse)</li> <li><a href="http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/07/01/language-rankings-6-15/">The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2015</a> (up two spots to #15)</li> <li><a href="http://thenewstack.io/who-is-the-go-developer/">Who is the Go Developer?</a> by Ian Eyberg</li> <li><a href="https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/06/golang-flashcards-and-spaced-repetition/">Learning Go with flashcards and spaced repetition</a> by Nicola Paolucci (Atlassian)</li> <li><a href="https://texlution.com/post/why-go-is-doomed-to-succeed/">Why Go is doomed to succeed</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-08/">August</a></li> </ul>June 2015: Packer machine images and code readinghttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-06/Mon, 22 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-06/ <p>Food at 6:30 pm. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhytjbdc/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/clli23l3vveod23soc7psk41a90?authkey=CK_xo5LLupjcfQ">Google+</a>.</p> <p>News and Talks at 6:45.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="packer">Packer</h3> <p><a href="https://packer.io/">Packer</a> is a tool building machine images written in Go. Our resident devops guru, <a href="https://twitter.com/fnichol">Fletcher Nichol</a>, from Chef Software will be presenting on it.</p> <p>See also: <a href="https://github.com/fatih/images">images</a></p> <h3 id="code-reading">Code reading</h3> <p>Back by popular demand, we'll be doing a code reading activity in small groups.</p> <p>Some suggestions:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/golang/go/tree/main/src/container/heap">container/heap</a> is a [heap data structure](<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_%28data_structure%29">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_(data_structure)</a> interface provided by the Go standard library</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni">negroni</a> is a middleware stack for Go (<a href="https://github.com/carbocation/interpose">interpose</a> is an alternative)</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/gorilla/pat">gorilla/pat</a> is a request router, and much simpler than <a href="https://github.com/gorilla/mux">gorilla/mux</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/gorilla/context">gorilla/context</a> is a registry for request variables</li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.hakkapools.co/p/gopherfest">GopherFest 2015 videos</a></li> <li>Go Team is working on a <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/sy-YcVPADjg/bcO6LAr29EIJ">Code of Conduct</a>, likely derived from <a href="https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/">Django</a></li> <li><a href="https://golang.org/s/proposal-process">Change Proposal Process</a> for Go (<a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/4GOiSBCX568">mailing list</a>) and <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/YU56eKYiXJg">Interim Code Review and Issue Tracker Conventions</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/74zjMON9glU">GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1</a></li> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/issues">Go Newsletter</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/edmontongo">@EdmontonGo</a> for more news</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>GopherCon 2015 - <a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">July 8-9</a> at the Colorado Convention Center</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-07/">July</a></li> </ul>May 2015: Lightning Talkshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-05/Mon, 25 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-05/ <p>Food at 6:30 pm. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhythbhc/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cojrq2q988n3h4lle2fhl3naj4s?authkey=CM3pxoS3lOPDJw">Google+</a>.</p> <p>News and Talks at 6:45.</p> <h2 id="lightning-talks">Lightning Talks</h2> <p>Short ~10 minute talks on Go or something you're using Go for.</p> <h3 id="dockerize-go-and-redis">Dockerize Go and Redis</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/chrisolsen">Chris Olsen</a> (<a href="https://github.com/chrisolsen/answer-to-life">source</a>)</p> <h3 id="testing-in-go">Testing in Go</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthiasStone">Matthias Stone</a></p> <h3 id="go-arrays--slices">Go Arrays &amp; Slices</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/nathany/go-arrays-and-slices">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2015/05/12/introducing-gb">Introducing gb, a project based build tool for the Go programming language</a> by Dave Cheney (<a href="http://getgb.io/">getgb.io</a>)</li> <li><a href="http://go-bootstrap.io/">go-bootstrap</a>, default web project.</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Monthly Hack Day - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/221890326/">May 13</a></li> <li>GopherCon 2015 - <a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">July 8-9</a> at the Colorado Convention Center</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-06/">June</a></li> </ul>April 2015: MongoDBhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-04/Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-04/ <p>Food at 6:30 pm. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/220969079/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c5ii4ngm4aurooekn4f6ckf96qo?authkey=CJ3cutmilNakMg">Google+</a>.</p> <p>News and Talks at 6:45.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="running-mongodb-queries-concurrently-with-go">Running MongoDB Queries Concurrently With Go</h3> <p>William Kennedy will be presenting (via Google Hangout) on using MongoDB and the <a href="https://labix.org/mgo">mgo</a> library (pronounced &quot;mango&quot;) for Go.</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/">GopherCon Speakers &amp; Talks Announced</a></li> <li><a href="https://golang.org//s/go15todo">Go 1.5 To Do List</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="articles-and-talks">Articles and Talks</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/03/25/interview-with-gos-russ-cox-and-sameer-ajmani/">Interview with Go’s Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/golang/talks/2014/research2.slide">More Research Problems of Implementing Go</a> by Dmitry Vyukov</li> <li><a href="https://vividcortex.com/blog/2015/03/25/building-your-first-database-sql-program/">Building Database Driven Apps With Go</a> by Anna Navatsyk</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Monthly Hackathon - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/220888016/">April 11</a></li> <li>Docker's Birthday Party <a href="http://docker.party/">March 23-April 19</a></li> <li>Go Challenge - <a href="http://golang-challenge.com/">Monthly</a></li> <li>GopherCon 2015 - <a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">July 8-9</a> at the Colorado Convention Center</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-05/">May</a></li> </ul>March 2015: Interactive discussion and video presentationhttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-03/Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-03/ <p>Food at 6:30 pm. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/219741165/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cp9eeagpf6qivf9220iuaooj9i0?authkey=CLKTrbG2xrngpgE">Google+</a>.</p> <p>News and Talks at 6:45.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="interactive-discussion">Interactive Discussion</h3> <p>Matthias Stone will be leading a discussion on how to use Go to develop web services. Bring your questions and experiences.</p> <h3 id="gophercon-india-video">GopherCon India Video</h3> <p>Antendees will vote on a short list of videos from GopherCon India, and the winner will be shown.</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://thenewstack.io/two-go-developers-switched-javascript-ruby/">Two Go Developers Who Switched from JavaScript and Ruby</a> by The New Stack</li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/building-timehop/why-timehop-chose-go-to-replace-our-rails-app-2855ea1912d">Why Timehop Chose Go to Replace Our Rails App</a> by Benny Wong</li> <li><a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/announcing-mongodb-30">Announcing MongoDB 3.0</a> by Eliot Horowitz</li> <li><a href="http://googledevelopers.blogspot.ca/2015/02/introducing-grpc-new-open-source-http2.html">Introducing gRPC, a new open source HTTP/2 RPC Framework</a> by Google</li> </ul> <h2 id="articles-and-talks">Articles and Talks</h2> <ul> <li>GopherCon India (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa-OZB5VIMcdzgrXRM2U0Ww">videos</a>, <a href="https://github.com/gopherconindia/talks">slides</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG-UaBJXZ80">Hacking with Andrew and Brad: an HTTP/2 client</a></li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2015/03/08/simplicity-and-collaboration">Simplicity and collaboration</a> by Dave Cheney</li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2015/03/03/cross-compilation-just-got-a-whole-lot-better-in-go-1-5">Cross compilation just got a whole lot better in Go 1.5</a> by Dave Cheney</li> <li><a href="https://blog.compose.io/is-postgresql-your-next-json-database/">Is PostgreSQL Your Next JSON Database?</a> by Dj Walker-Morgan</li> <li><a href="http://www.aptuz.com/blog/is-postgres-nosql-database-better-than-mongodb/">Is Postgres NoSQL Better Than MongoDB?</a> by Jameel Mohammed</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Polyglot AB - <a href="http://ab.polyglotconf.com/">March 28</a> in Calgary</li> <li>Monthly Hackathon - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/220888016/">April 11</a></li> <li>Docker's Birthday Party <a href="http://docker.party/">March 23-April 19</a></li> <li>Go Challenge - <a href="http://golang-challenge.com/">Monthly</a></li> <li>GopherCon 2015 - <a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">July 8-9</a> at the Colorado Convention Center</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-04/">April</a></li> </ul>February 2015: Gala Postmortem & Databases.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-02/Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-02/ <p>Food at 6:30 pm. Talks at 7:00.</p> <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhytdbfc/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cltheh3mjar1rdqb3qigec5ires?authkey=CIXaltmY76PONA">Google+</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="go-and-databases">Go and Databases</h3> <p>Brett McKay (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2015-02/database">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-announce/JT1jOsxZ2Ow/ULqev1M4B3IJ">Go 1.4.2</a></li> <li><a href="http://gohugo.io/meta/release-notes/">Hugo 0.13.0</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/569980747160920064/photo/1">Go in Go</a> (<a href="https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/5652/">dev.cc merged to master</a>, <a href="http://beta.golang.org/doc/install/source">docs</a>)</li> <li><a href="http://info.thoughtworks.com/building-microservices-book.html">Building Microservices</a> by Sam Newman</li> <li><a href="https://trumpet.ca/jobs">Trumpet</a> in Calgary, AB is hiring for Go and C/C++</li> <li><a href="http://gift.scottbrooks.ca/">Gift</a> (Gopher Gala) by Scott Brooks</li> <li>Edmonton Go is looking for sponsors for food</li> </ul> <h2 id="articles-and-talks">Articles and Talks</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://talks.golang.org/2015/state-of-go.slide#1">The State of Go</a> by Andrew Gerrand</li> <li><a href="http://www.gophercon.in/blog/2015/02/17/andrew/">Interview: Gopher Andrew Gerrand</a></li> <li><a href="https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gopherconindia/">GopherCon India Live Blog</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Go Challenge - <a href="http://golang-challenge.com/Golang-Challenge-FAQ/">March 1-15</a></li> <li>Startup Weekend EDU - <a href="http://www.up.co/communities/events/5474">March 6-8</a> - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/startup-weekend-edu-edmonton-tickets-13487961857">Early Bird Tickets $75</a></li> <li>Monthly Hackathon - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/drsdskytfbkb/">March 14</a></li> <li>Polyglot AB - <a href="http://ab.polyglotconf.com/">March 28</a> in Calgary</li> <li>GopherCon 2015 - <a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">July 8-9</a> at the Colorado Convention Center</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-03/">March</a></li> </ul>January 2015: S3 and errors.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-01/Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-01/ <p>Food at 6:30 pm. Talks at 7:00.</p> <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/219469117/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c38k0atrsdtuisbh1d73bqs4848">Google+</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="amazon-s3-with-go">Amazon S3 with Go</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://github.com/nathany/s3up">s3up source</a>)</p> <h3 id="error-handling-in-go">Error Handling In Go</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/GoingGoDotNet">William Kennedy</a> (<a href="https://vimeo.com/115782573">GothamGo video</a>, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ardan-bkennedy/gotham-go2014-41606030">slides</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://golang.org//doc/devel/release.html#go1.4.minor">Go 1.4.1 release</a></li> <li><a href="https://ti.to/gophercon/gophercon-2015">GopherCon 2015 Tickets Available</a></li> <li><a href="http://cfp.gophercon.com/events/gc15">GopherCon 2015 Call for Proposals</a></li> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/issues/41">Go Newsletter 41</a>, now published by Cooper Press.</li> <li><a href="http://blog.labix.org/2015/01/13/improvements-on-gopkg-in">Improvements on gopkg.in</a> by Gustavo Niemeyer</li> <li><a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/01/golang-15-bootstrapped">Google Aims at Bootstrapping Go 1.5</a></li> <li>Gopher Gala <a href="http://gopher-gala.challengepost.com/submissions">Submissions</a> (<a href="http://gift.scottbrooks.ca/">Gift</a> by Scott Brooks)</li> <li>Edmonton Go Workshop <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/gallery/cc7og2dmu7ccqak7kkfsmus3pgc?sort=1">Photos</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="jobs">Jobs</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://trumpet.ca/jobs">Trumpet</a> in Calgary, AB</li> </ul> <h2 id="articles">Articles</h2> <h2 id="errors">Errors</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values">Errors Are Values</a> by Rob Pike</li> <li><a href="https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2014/10/error-handling-in-go-part-i.html">Error Handling In Go</a> by William Kennedy</li> <li><a href="http://blog.schaeffer.io/2015/01/10/errors-and-concurrency/">Concurrent Error Handling</a> by John Schaeffer</li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2015/01/26/errors-and-exceptions-redux">Errors and Exceptions, redux</a> by Dave Cheney</li> </ul> <h2 id="opinion">Opinion</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://startupedmonton.tumblr.com/post/107921476571/why-tech-startups-should-look-at-go">Why Tech Startups Should Look At Go</a> by William Kennedy</li> <li><a href="http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/golang-is-trash/">Golang is Trash</a> by Keith Wesolowski</li> <li><a href="http://jbeckwith.com/2015/01/04/comparing-go-and-dotnet/">Comparing Go and .NET</a> by Justin Beckwith</li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/on-being-a-code-monkey/things-i-like-about-go-e026762be8ac">Features I Like about Go</a> by Abhi Yerra</li> </ul> <h2 id="videos">Videos</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ-JorHJEY">Hacking with Andrew and Brad</a></li> <li><a href="https://vimeo.com/channels/852217">GothamGo Conference</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.kajabinext.com/marketplace/courses/1-essential-go">Essential Go</a> by Jeremy Saenz</li> </ul> <h2 id="books">Books</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://vividcortex.com/resources/building-database-driven-apps-with-go/">The Ultimate Guide To Building Database-Driven Apps With Go</a> by Baron Schwartz</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Monthly Hackathon - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/drsdskytdbkb/">February 7</a></li> <li>GopherCon India - <a href="http://www.gophercon.in/">February 19-21</a></li> <li>GopherCon 2015 - <a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">July 8-9</a> at the Colorado Convention Center</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-02/">February</a></li> </ul>Introduction to Go Workshophttps://edmontongo.org/workshop/workshop/Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/workshop/workshop/ <figure class="right"><img src="https://edmontongo.org/images/william.png" alt="William Kennedy" width="137px" height="162px"><figcaption> <h4>William Kennedy</h4> </figcaption> </figure> <p>On January 24, 2015 we will be hosting a Go Workshop taught by <strong>William Kennedy</strong> of <a href="https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/">GoingGo.net</a>, co-author of <a href="https://www.manning.com/books/go-in-action">Go in Action</a> and <a href="https://www.ardanlabs.com/">trainer extraordinaire</a>.</p> <h2 id="what-you-will-learn">What You Will Learn</h2> <p>The day will cover the following <a href="https://github.com/ArdanStudios/gotraining">material</a>:</p> <ul> <li>Language and Syntax</li> <li>Arrays, Slices and Maps</li> <li>Methods, Interfaces and Embedding Types</li> <li>Concurrency and Channels</li> </ul> <h2 id="schedule">Schedule</h2> <p>The workshop starts at 9:00 am sharp and ends at 5 pm. Come 30 minutes early if you need help setting up a Go environment.</p>Weekend of Go: Three events for gophers of all skill levels.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/wog/Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/wog/ <h2 id="gopher-gala">Gopher Gala</h2> <figure class="left"><img src="https://edmontongo.org/images/can-i-haz-cake.jpg" alt="Giant Gopher Cake" width="534px" height="285px"><figcaption> <h4>Giant Gopher Cake</h4> </figcaption> </figure> <figure><img src="https://edmontongo.org/images/fancy_gopher.jpg" alt="Fancy Gopher Designed by Renee French" width="132px" height="150px"><figcaption> <h4>Designed by Renee French</h4> </figcaption> </figure> <p><a href="http://www.gophergala.com/">Gopher Gala</a> is a distributed 48-hour hackathon for the Go programming language. Register and build something awesome!</p> <p>You can fly solo or form a team of up to four people. To hack from Startup Edmonton, you can <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/219629529/">also register here</a>. Startup Edmonton will be open the full 48 hours. Things kick off Friday, January 23 at 6pm and go until Sunday at 6pm.</p>December 2014: Movie Night.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-12/Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-12/ <p>Food at 6:30 pm. Video at 7:00.</p> <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhysqbdc/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cnomfksnte82t36o2pekscrtee8?authkey=CPu6pY-HvPD3cQ">Google+</a>.</p> <h2 id="movie-night">Movie Night</h2> <ul> <li>Best Practices for Production Environments by <a href="https://twitter.com/peterbourgon">Peter Bourgon</a></li> <li>A Channel Compendium by <a href="https://twitter.com/jgrahamc">John Graham-Cumming</a></li> </ul> <p>Matthias baked this giant gopher cake for our belated <a href="https://blog.golang.org/5years">Five Years of Go</a> celebration.</p> <p><figure> <picture> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="Giant Gopher Cake" class="image_figure image_internal image_unprocessed" src="https://edmontongo.org/images/can-i-haz-cake.jpg" /> </picture> </figure> </p> <p><figure> <picture> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="Giant Gopher Cake" class="image_figure image_internal image_unprocessed" src="https://edmontongo.org/images/and-eat-it-too.jpg" /> </picture> </figure> </p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/go1.4">Go 1.4</a></li> <li><a href="http://tour.golang.org/welcome/1">A Tour of Go</a>: a fresh new version</li> </ul> <h2 id="articles">Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/generate">Generating code</a> by Rob Pike</li> <li><a href="https://www.mikeperham.com/2014/12/11/go-1.4-runtime-visualized/">Go 1.4 runtime visualized</a> by Mike Perham</li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/backchannel/my-computer-language-is-better-than-yours-58d9c9523644">Code of Ages</a> by Scott Rosenberg</li> <li><a href="http://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/">Go: Best Practices for Production Environments</a> by Peter Bourgon</li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2014/12/01/five-suggestions-for-setting-up-a-go-project">Five suggestions for setting up a Go project</a> by Dave Cheney</li> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2014/deps/">Managing Dependencies</a> by Nathan Youngman</li> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/series/advent-2014/">Advent 2014 series</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Monthly Hackathon - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/211384642/">January 10</a></li> <li>Go Workshop - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/workshop/">January 24</a></li> <li>GopherCon India - <a href="http://www.gophercon.in/">February 19-21</a></li> <li>GopherCon 2015 - <a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/go-turns-5/">July 8-9</a> at the Colorado Convention Center</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2015-01/">January</a></li> </ul>November 2014: Coming in Go 1.4.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-11/Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-11/ <p>Pizza at 6:30 pm. Talks at 7:00.</p> <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/216065732/">Meetup</a> or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c5osal44oh2nt0cma1qjicgpvak">Google+</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks-go-14">Talks (Go 1.4)</h2> <h3 id="code-generation-in-go">Code generation in Go</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthiasStone">Matthias Stone</a></p> <h3 id="go-on-android">Go on Android</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/f2prateek">Prateek Srivastava</a></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/5years">Half a decade with Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/mP5sSNwezVc/dM44xFd9L4IJ">Go 1.4 Release Candidate 1</a></li> <li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/golang-dev/sckirqOWepg">Go is moving to GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://http2.golang.org/">HTTP/2 demo</a></li> <li><a href="https://edmontongo.org/workshop/">Earlier bird tickets for Edmonton Go Workshop</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="articles">Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/series/birthday-bash-2014/">Birthday Bash series</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2014/10/error-handling-in-go-part-i.html">Error Handling In Go, Part I</a> and <a href="https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2014/11/error-handling-in-go-part-ii.html">Part II</a> by William Kennedy</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Wednesday Hack Nights - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/dnfpnkyspbjc/">November 26</a></li> <li>Monthly Hackathon - <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/drsdskysqbjb/">December 6</a></li> <li>Go Workshop - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/workshop/">January 24</a></li> <li>GopherCon India - <a href="http://www.gophercon.in/">February 19-21</a></li> <li>GopherCon 2015 - <a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/go-turns-5/">July 8-9</a> at the Colorado Convention Center</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-12/">December</a></li> </ul>October 2014: The Standard Library.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-10/Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-10/ <p>We get started at 6:30 pm.</p> <p>Pizza provided. Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/200885672/">Meetup</a> and/or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cm6t4hiu7bo9j9dedd6l4i3kqb8?authkey=CPnMmISs4prWiAE">Google+</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="using-hugo">Using Hugo</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a></p> <p><a href="http://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a> is a fast and modern static website engine written in Go. Use it to for your blog or website.</p> <h3 id="i-came-for-the-easy-concurrency-i-stayed-for-the-easy-composition">I came for the easy concurrency, I stayed for the easy composition</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/jgrahamc">John Graham-Cumming</a></p> <p>A talk from dotGo (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myCHCXFFTPY">video</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jgrahamc/dotgo">source</a>)</p> <h3 id="the-go-standard-library">The Go Standard Library</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/darkhelmetlive">Daniel Huckstep</a></p> <p>Daniel Huckstep is the author of <a href="http://thestandardlibrary.com/">Go, The Standard Library</a>.</p>September 2014: Docker, Templates, Packages.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-09/Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-09/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/199276992/">Meetup</a> and/or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cc2emrbrmvg6sa9f8svlu2tu2k4">Google+</a>.</p> <p>We get started at 6:30 pm, pizza is provided.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="docker">Docker</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/fnichol">@fnichol</a></p> <p>Docker has been <em>taking the cloud by storm.</em> Come learn about containers and distributed applications. (<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/fnichol/edmonton-go-september-2014-docker">slides</a>)</p> <p>Related:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://thenewstack.io/why-did-docker-catch-on-quickly-and-why-is-it-so-interesting/">Why Did Docker Catch on Quickly and Why is it so Interesting?</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.docker.com/2014/09/docker-closes-40m-series-c-led-by-sequoia/">Docker closes $40M Series C funding</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="html-templates">HTML Templates</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthiasStone">@MatthiasStone</a></p> <p>Building on the introduction to text/template from June, Matthias will show us how to use the HTML template facilities that come with the Go standard library. (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2014-09/html-templates">code</a>)</p>August 2014: Zombie robot hack night.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-08/Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-08/ <p>Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhyslbhc/">Meetup</a> and/or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c7di1e56ds3pi66n4rp1ejjlhpo?authkey=CKzv8PmlpNb4pAE">Google+</a>.</p> <h2 id="hack-night">Hack Night</h2> <p><strong>Bring your laptop.</strong> Pair up and control a <a href="http://www.gosphero.com/">Sphero</a> using Go. We're building a multi-player zombie game with <a href="http://gobot.io/">Gobot</a>. (<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/nathany/sphero-go">slides</a>, <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/go-zombies">code</a>)</p> <ul> <li>6:30pm Devour the provided pizza.</li> <li>7:00pm Program room for a short presentation.</li> <li>7:20pm Form teams and setup around the Sphero arena.</li> </ul> <p><figure> <picture> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="Collaboration" class="image_figure image_internal image_unprocessed" src="https://edmontongo.org/assets/images/collaboration.jpg" /> </picture> </figure> </p> <p><figure> <picture> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="Coding" class="image_figure image_internal image_unprocessed" src="https://edmontongo.org/assets/images/keyboard.jpg" /> </picture> </figure> </p> <h2 id="sphero">Sphero</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/sphero-high-tech-toys/53e507b302a76070870000c0">Future of Playtime</a> (video)</li> <li><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/25/sphero-from-toy-to-education/">Happy accident: Sphero makes the move from toy to teaching</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="online-talks">Online Talks</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/state-go">The State of Go</a> by Andrew Gerrand</li> <li><a href="http://www.hakkalabs.co/articles/why-we-use-go">Why We Use Go at Apcera</a> by Derek Collison</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndmB0bj7eyw">Testing Techniques</a> by Andrew Gerrand</li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/two-go-talks-lexical-scanning-in-go-and">&quot;Lexical Scanning in Go&quot; and &quot;Cuddle: an App Engine Demo&quot;</a></li> <li>More at <a href="http://gophervids.appspot.com/">GopherVids</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="resources">Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://golang.org//">The Go Programming Language</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/gophers-slack-community">Gopher Community on Slack</a></li> <li>Job board at <a href="https://www.golangprojects.com/">golangprojects.com</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/golangprojects">Twitter</a>) and <a href="https://www.welovegolang.com/">we love golang</a></li> <li>News at <a href="https://golangweekly.com/">Golang Weekly</a> and <a href="http://www.newspaper.io/golang">Newspaper.IO</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-09/">September</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/12">Planning</a>)</li> </ul>July 2014: Hello Go, Movie Night.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-07/Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-07/ <p>Pizza provided (at 6:30 pm). Please <strong>RSVP</strong> at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/190672582/">Meetup</a> and/or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c8c4s271gml12lqln4bdc70bolg">Google+</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="hello-go">Hello Go</h3> <p><strong>Bring your laptop.</strong> Whether you're using Atom, Sublime Text or vim on Linux, Mac or Windows, we'll help everyone get setup with a productive Go environment. If you already have the perfect setup, come help those who don't. (<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/nathany/hello-go">slides</a>, <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2014-07/hellogo">source</a>)</p> <h3 id="movie-night">Movie Night</h3> <p>Be inspired. Stay to watch <em>Go for gophers</em> by <a href="https://twitter.com/enneff">Andrew Gerrand</a> (<a href="http://confreaks.com/videos/3443-gophercon2014-closing-day-keynote">video</a>, <a href="https://talks.golang.org/2014/go4gophers.slide#1">slides</a>).</p> <h2 id="jobs">Jobs</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.cisco.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&amp;RID=965664&amp;CurrentPage=1">Senior QA Engineer</a> at Cisco in Calgary.</li> </ul> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/07/open-sourcing-our-go-libraries/">Open Sourcing Our Go Librarires</a> by Dropbox</li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/oscon">Go at OSCON</a> - July 20-29th</li> <li><a href="http://www.gomicroprojects.com/">Go Microprojects</a></li> <li><a href="https://bugsnag.com/blog/golang">Bugsnag supports Go</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="articles">Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/get-your-development-team-started-with-go/">Get Your Development Team Started With Go</a> by DigitalOcean</li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/code-adventures/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e52b">Farewell Node.js</a> by TJ Holowaychuk</li> <li><a href="https://blog.splice.com/golang-improved-simplicity-reduced-maintenance/">Go: pay upfront or get a credit line</a> by Matt Aimonetti</li> <li><a href="http://blog.jonathanoliver.com/golang-has-generics/">Why I Don't Miss Generics Anymore</a> by Jonathan Oliver</li> <li><a href="https://vividcortex.com/blog/2014/07/01/alternatives-to-inheritance-in-go/">Composition Instead of Inheritance in Go</a> by Baron Schwartz</li> <li><a href="http://technosophos.com/2014/07/24/9-things-i-like-about-go.html">9 Things I Like About Go</a> by Matt Butcher</li> <li><a href="http://arslan.io/ten-useful-techniques-in-go">Ten Useful Techniques in Go</a> by Fatih Arslan</li> </ul> <h2 id="online-talks">Online Talks</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DpKaoPz8l8">Sourcegraph at Google I/O 2014 - A large-scale code search engine in Go</a> (<a href="https://sourcegraph.com/blog/google-io-2014-building-sourcegraph-a-large-scale-code-search-engine-in-go">article</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=midJ6b1LkA0&amp;">Scaling with Go: YouTube's Vitess</a> by Sugo Sougoumarane</li> <li><a href="http://vimeo.com/99884953">Introduction to Go</a> by James Bowes</li> <li><a href="https://speakerdeck.com/joefitzgerald/building-an-editor-package-for-go">Building An Editor Package For Go</a> by Joe Fitzgerald</li> </ul> <h2 id="resources">Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/gophers-slack-community">Gopher Community on Slack</a></li> <li>Job board at <a href="https://www.golangprojects.com/">golangprojects.com</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/golangprojects">Twitter</a>)</li> <li>More news at <a href="https://golangweekly.com/">Golang Weekly</a> and <a href="http://www.newspaper.io/golang">Newspaper.IO</a></li> <li><a href="http://screencasts.codegangsta.io/">Code Gangsta Screencasts</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://coderetreat-yeg-20140810.eventbrite.ca/">Code Retreat</a> - August 10</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-08/">August</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/11">Planning</a>)</li> </ul>June 2014: Standard library templates, csv.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-06/Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-06/ <p>Please RSVP at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/185430912/">Meetup</a> and/or <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c9r9f3pd805o38uveo5qdkot0oc?authkey=CJOa6Ni-r_qIZg">Google+</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="go-templates">Go Templates</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthiasStone">@MatthiasStone</a></p> <h3 id="code-reading-encodingcsv">Code Reading: encoding/csv</h3> <p>(based on <a href="http://bloggytoons.com/code-club">Code Club</a>)</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://golang.org//doc/go1.3">Go 1.3</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/golang_cls">golang_cls</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://golang.org//lib/godoc/analysis/help.html">Static analysis features of godoc</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="articles">Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2014/06/07/five-things-that-make-go-fast">Five things that make Go fast</a></li> <li><a href="http://bcarrell.me/posts/why_go/">Reasons Why a Functional Programmer Might Embrace Go</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.veracode.com/2013/12/golangs-context-aware-html-templates/">Go’s Context Aware HTML Templates</a></li> <li><a href="http://andlabs.lostsig.com/blog/2014/05/26/8/the-go-templates-post">The Go Templates Post</a></li> <li><a href="http://thenewstack.io/from-node-js-to-go-why-one-startup-made-the-switch/">From Node.js To Go, Why One Startup Made The Switch</a></li> <li><a href="https://willnorris.com/2014/05/go-rest-apis-and-pointers">Go, REST APIs, and Pointers</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/gophercon">GopherCon 2014 Wrap Up</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="online-talks">Online Talks</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/From-Parallel-to-Concurrent">From Parallel to Concurrent</a></li> <li><a href="http://confreaks.com/events/gophercon2014">GopherCon videos</a> and <a href="https://github.com/gophercon/2014-talks">slides</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="resources">Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/gophers-slack-community">Gopher Community on Slack</a></li> <li>Job board at <a href="https://www.golangprojects.com/">golangprojects.com</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/golangprojects">Twitter</a>)</li> <li>More news at <a href="https://golangweekly.com/">Golang Weekly</a> and <a href="http://www.newspaper.io/golang">Newspaper.IO</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.google.com/events/io/schedule">Google I/O</a> - June 25-26 <ul> <li>Authentication and third party APIs</li> <li>Building a web app on App Engine</li> <li>Camlistore: Android, ARM, App Engine, everywhere</li> <li>Go compilation complexities</li> <li>Making your code faster: benchmarking and profiling</li> <li>Organizing code and managing dependencies</li> <li>Sourcegraph: A code search engine in Go</li> <li>Testing techniques</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://www.dotgo.eu/">dotGo</a> - October 10 in Paris 139 €</li> <li><a href="http://gophercon.in/">GopherCon India</a> February 20-21, 2015</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-07/">July</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/10">Propose a Talk</a>)</li> </ul>May 2014: Reflection, Contributing, SQL.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-05/Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-05/ <p>Please RSVP at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/180080592/">Meetup</a> and/or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/cdbl6budpmph82vuer0l2dt9cok?authkey=CKXX-qvVq-nkUQ">Google+</a>.</p> <p>Pizza sponsored by <a href="https://www.agileanimal.com/">AGiLE ANiMAL</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="reflection">Reflection</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/darkhelmetlive">Daniel Huckstep</a> (<a href="https://github.com/darkhelmet/enumerable">code</a>, <a href="https://github.com/darkhelmet/goctopus">more code</a>)</p> <h3 id="contributing-to-go">Contributing to Go</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/nathany">Nathan Youngman</a> (<a href="https://speakerdeck.com/nathany/contributing-to-go">slides</a>)</p> <h3 id="building-database-applications-with-databasesql">Building Database Applications with database/sql</h3> <p>(<a href="http://confreaks.com/videos/3440-gophercon2014-building-database-applications-with-database-sql">video</a>, <a href="https://cdn.rawgit.com/gophercon/2014-talks/master/baron-schwartz/database-sql.pdf">slides</a>) <a href="https://twitter.com/xaprb">Baron Schwartz</a></p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://confreaks.com/events/gophercon2014">GopherCon videos</a> and <a href="https://github.com/gophercon/2014-talks">slides</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.gopheracademy.com/gophers-slack-community">Gopher Community on Slack</a></li> <li><a href="http://beta.golang.org/doc/go1.3">Go 1.3 beta 2</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/golang_cls">golang_cls</a>)</li> <li>Job board at <a href="https://www.golangprojects.com/">golangprojects.com</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/golangprojects">Twitter</a>)</li> <li>More news at <a href="https://golangweekly.com/">Golang Weekly</a> and <a href="http://www.newspaper.io/golang">Newspaper.IO</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="tools">Tools</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://gocover.io/">GoCover.io</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="articles">Articles</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://corner.squareup.com/2014/05/evaluating-go-frameworks.html">A Comparison of Go Web Frameworks</a></li> <li><a href="http://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/">Go: Best Practices for Production Environments</a></li> <li><a href="http://matt.aimonetti.net/posts/2014/04/28/refactoring-go-code/">Go, Robots and Code Refactoring</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.natefinch.com/2014/05/intro-to-go-interfaces.html">Intro++ to Go Interfaces</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.onebigfluke.com/2014/04/gos-power-is-in-emergent-behavior.html">Go's power is in emergent behavior</a></li> <li><a href="http://codegangsta.io/blog/2014/05/19/my-thoughts-on-martini/">My Thoughts on Martini</a></li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2014/05/22/go-1-3-linker-improvements">Go 1.3 linker improvements</a></li> <li><a href="http://daviddd.net/blog/2014/05/10/number-golang-the-next-great-teaching-language/">Go: The Next Great Teaching Language</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.dotgo.eu/">dotGo</a> - October 10 in Paris 139 €</li> <li><a href="http://gophercon.in/">GopherCon India</a> February 20-21, 2015</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-06/">June</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/7">Propose a Talk</a>)</li> </ul>April 2014: Mocking, generic Go and GopherCon.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-04/Mon, 28 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-04/ <p>Please RSVP at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/173880022/">Meetup</a> and/or <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c1sbuksfmhr038su10u48t0hduc?authkey=CMvS_ori8v6nHw">Google+</a>. Pizza provided.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="testing-go-web-applications---http--sql">Testing Go Web Applications - HTTP &amp; SQL</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthiasStone">@MatthiasStone</a></p> <p>A look at the httptest and sqlmock packages.</p> <h3 id="generic-map">Generic Map</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/abramh">@abramh</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyPJFx-35LQ">video</a>)</p> <p>A lecture on a generic map function in Go.</p> <h3 id="gophercon">GopherCon</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/fnichol">@fnichol</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/nathany">@nathany</a></p> <p>Highlights from the conference.</p> <h2 id="news">News</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://changelog.com/podcast/117">Go, Martini and Gophercasts with Jeremy Saenz</a> Changelog podcast #117</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/gophercon/2014-talks">GopherCon talks</a></li> <li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html">GCC 4.9 includes Go 1.2.1</a></li> <li>Job board at <a href="https://www.golangprojects.com/">golangprojects.com</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/golangprojects">Twitter</a>)</li> <li>More news at <a href="https://golangweekly.com/">Golang Weekly</a> and <a href="http://www.newspaper.io/golang">Newspaper.IO</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="articles">Articles</h2> <h2 id="testing">Testing</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://willnorris.com/2013/08/testing-in-go-github">Testing in go-github</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.natefinch.com/2014/04/mocking-functions-in-go.html">Mocking functions in Go</a> and <a href="http://openmymind.net/Dependency-Injection-In-Go/">&quot;Dependency Injection&quot; in Golang</a></li> <li><a href="https://nathany.com/go-testing-toolbox/">Go Testing Toolbox</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="language">Language</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2014/03/17/pointers-in-go">Pointers in Go</a></li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2014/03/25/the-empty-struct">The empty struct</a></li> <li><a href="http://morsmachine.dk/error-handling">Effective error handling in Go</a></li> <li><a href="http://clipperhouse.com/2014/03/30/nesting-is-state/">Nesting is state</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="web">Web</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.alexedwards.net/blog/a-recap-of-request-handling">A Recap of Request Handling in Go</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="concurrency">Concurrency</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://blog.nindalf.com/how-goroutines-work/">How Goroutines Work</a></li> <li>[The Go scheduler](<a href="http://morsmachine.dk/go-schedulerThe">http://morsmachine.dk/go-schedulerThe</a> Go scheduler)</li> <li><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2014/03/19/channel-axioms">Channel Axioms</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.golang.org/pipelines">Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation</a></li> <li><a href="https://rogpeppe.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/cancellation-in-go-the-juju-way/">Cancellation in Go, the Juju way</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/03/12/sane-concurrency-with-go/">Sane Concurrency with Go</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="devops">DevOps</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2014/03/18/go-the-emerging-language-of-cloud-infrastructure/">Go: the emerging language of cloud infrastructure</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="packaging">Packaging</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://labix.org/gopkg.in">gopkg.in</a> Stable APIs for the Go language</li> </ul> <h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.polyglotconf.com/#workshop-golang">Go bootcamp</a> at Polyglot Unconference - May 23rd-25th in Vancouver $275 + $50.</li> <li><a href="https://www.dotgo.eu/">dotGo</a> - October 10 in Paris 139 €</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-05/">May</a></li> </ul>March 2014: Testing, Delegation & C.https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-03/Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-03/ <p>Please RSVP at <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/qfwsfhysfbgc/">Meetup</a> and/or <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/crebhlb2rji9rfd5hir5qs9o8is?authkey=CIbY_dfD_qbQcQ">Google+</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="testing-in-go-what-you-need-to-know">Testing in Go: What You Need to Know</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/MatthiasStone">@MatthiasStone</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2014-03/testing-basics">code</a>)</p> <p>A walk through Go's testing package and how it differs from third-party assertion frameworks.</p> <h3 id="composition--delegation">Composition &amp; Delegation</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/nathany">@nathany</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2014-03/composition">code</a>)</p> <p>Embedding provides a clean way to delegate to member objects. We'll also discuss Go's emphasis on composition.</p> <h3 id="gos-secret-c-interface">Go's Secret C Interface</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/darkhelmetlive">@darkhelmetlive</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2014-03/asm">code</a>)</p> <p>How to write functions in C and call them from Go without requiring cgo.</p>February 2014: Interfaces & Iteratorshttps://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-02/Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-02/ <p>Please <a href="https://www.meetup.com/startupedmonton/events/162989622/">RSVP</a>. Pizza to be provided by <a href="https://getjobber.com/">Jobber</a>.</p> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="duck-hunt-interfaces">Duck Hunt: Interfaces</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/nathany">@nathany</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2014-02/duck">code</a>)</p> <p>&quot;If it quacks like a duck...&quot; exploring interfaces in Go.</p> <p><em>This talk builds on <a href="https://edmontongo.org/2014-01/">last month's talk</a> on types &amp; methods. If you missed it, you may wish to watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT4eefMioE">screencast</a>.</em></p> <h3 id="iteration-in-go">Iteration in Go</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/abramh">@abramh</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHDr6V-9ns8">video</a>, <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2014-02/iteration">code &amp; slides</a>)</p> <p>Iterating all the things.</p> <h2 id="news--events">News &amp; Events</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://blog.drone.io/2014/2/5/open-source-ci-docker.html">Drone and Docker, Open Source CI</a></li> <li><a href="https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Style">Go Style Guide</a></li> <li>Toward Go 1.3 (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4hwLgSvUs&amp;list=PLtLJO5JKE5YDKG4WcaNts3IVZqhDmmuBH&amp;index=6">video</a>, <a href="https://talks.golang.org/2014/go1.3.slide#1">slides</a>) feature freeze is March 1st</li> <li><a href="https://golangweekly.com/">Golang Weekly</a></li> <li><del><a href="https://www.gophercon.com/">GopherCon</a> April 24-26 in Denver $299 USD (soldout)</del></li> <li><a href="https://www.dotgo.eu/">dotGo</a> October 10 in Paris 79 €</li> <li>Edmonton Go Meetup - <a href="https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-03/">March</a> (<a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/issues/4">propose a talk</a>)</li> </ul><link>https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-01/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://edmontongo.org/meetup/2014-01/</guid><description> <h2 id="talks">Talks</h2> <h3 id="celsius-types-are-cool">Celsius: Types Are Cool</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/nathany">@nathany</a> (<a href="https://vimeo.com/86278568">video</a>, <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2014-01/celsius">code</a>)</p> <p>We will refactor some procedural code, learning how to use types and methods in Go.</p> <p><em>This talk is suitable for programmers new to the Go language.</em></p> <h3 id="concurrency-is-not-parallelism">Concurrency Is Not Parallelism</h3> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/rob_pike">@rob_pike</a> (<a href="https://vimeo.com/49718712">video</a>, <a href="https://talks.golang.org/2012/waza.slide#1">slides</a>, <a href="https://github.com/edmontongo/presentations/tree/main/2014-01/robpike">code</a>)</p> <p>Concurrency is a way of structuring code that can enable parallel execution. After a number of seemingly silly examples, Rob Pike wraps up with a complete load balancer written in Go.</p></description></item></channel></rss>