July 2014 Meetup

Pizza provided (at 6:30 pm). Please RSVP at Meetup and/or Google+.

Talks

Hello Go

Bring your laptop. 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. (slides, source)

Movie Night

Be inspired. Stay to watch Go for gophers by Andrew Gerrand (video, slides).

Jobs

• Senior QA Engineer at Cisco in Calgary.

News

• Open Sourcing Our Go Librarires by Dropbox
• Go at OSCON - July 20-29th
• Go Microprojects
• Bugsnag supports Go

Articles

• Get Your Development Team Started With Go by DigitalOcean
• Farewell Node.js by TJ Holowaychuk
• Go: pay upfront or get a credit line by Matt Aimonetti
• Why I Don’t Miss Generics Anymore by Jonathan Oliver
• Composition Instead of Inheritance in Go by Baron Schwartz
• 9 Things I Like About Go by Matt Butcher
• Ten Useful Techniques in Go by Fatih Arslan

Online Talks

• Sourcegraph at Google I/O 2014 - A large-scale code search engine in Go (article)
• Scaling with Go: YouTube’s Vitess by Sugo Sougoumarane
• Introduction to Go by James Bowes
• Building An Editor Package For Go by Joe Fitzgerald

Resources

• Gopher Community on Slack
• Job board at golangprojects.com (Twitter)
• More news at Golang Weekly and Newspaper.IO
• Code Gangsta Screencasts

Events

• Code Retreat - August 10
• Edmonton Go Meetup - August (Planning)