April 2014 Meetup

Please RSVP at Meetup and/or Google+. Pizza provided.

Talks

Testing Go Web Applications - HTTP & SQL

@MatthiasStone

A look at the httptest and sqlmock packages.

Generic Map

@abramh (video)

A lecture on a generic map function in Go.

GopherCon

@fnichol, @nathany

Highlights from the conference.

News

• Go, Martini and Gophercasts with Jeremy Saenz Changelog podcast #117
• GopherCon talks
• GCC 4.9 includes Go 1.2.1
• Job board at golangprojects.com (Twitter)
• More news at Golang Weekly and Newspaper.IO

Articles

Testing

• Testing in go-github
• Mocking functions in Go and “Dependency Injection” in Golang
• Go Testing Toolbox

Language

• Pointers in Go
• The empty struct
• Effective error handling in Go
• Nesting is state

Web

• A Recap of Request Handling in Go

Concurrency

• How Goroutines Work
• [The Go scheduler](http://morsmachine.dk/go-schedulerThe Go scheduler)
• Channel Axioms
• Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation
• Cancellation in Go, the Juju way
• Sane Concurrency with Go

DevOps

• Go: the emerging language of cloud infrastructure

Packaging

• gopkg.in Stable APIs for the Go language

Events

• Go bootcamp at Polyglot Unconference - May 23rd-25th in Vancouver $275 + $50.
• dotGo - October 10 in Paris 139 €
• Edmonton Go Meetup - May