September 2014 Meetup

Please RSVP at Meetup and/or Google+.

We get started at 6:30 pm, pizza is provided.

Talks

Docker

@fnichol

Docker has been taking the cloud by storm. Come learn about containers and distributed applications. (slides)

Related:

• Why Did Docker Catch on Quickly and Why is it so Interesting?
• Docker closes $40M Series C funding

HTML Templates

@MatthiasStone

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. (code)

Packages and Dependencies

@nathany

Packages in the Go language and the surrounding tools. (slides)

Related:

• Contributing to Open Source Git Repositories in Go by Katrina Owen
• Organizing Go Code by David Crawshaw
• Support development branches in Gopkg.in
• Making godep save always copy code

News

• The Happiness Manifesto
• Go Users’ Survey 2014 (Responses)
• Gopher Interviews
• Ollie connected toy

Articles

• Thoughts On Five Years of Emerging Languages by Alex Payne
• Go Is a Shop-built Jig by Rob Napier
• Things are Mostly the Same: Differences by Kent Beck
• How I Start Go by Peter Bourgon
• How Stacks are Handled in Go by Daniel Morsing

Resources

• The Go Programming Language
• Gopher Community on Slack
• Job board at golangprojects.com (Twitter) and we love golang
• News at Golang Weekly and Newspaper.IO
• Link aggregation at Lobste.rs and reddit

Events

• Wednesday Hack Nights - September 24
• DemoCamp - September 29
• Startup Edmonton Hackathon - October 4
• dotGo - October 10 in Paris
• GothamGo - November 15 in New York (go2014presale)
• Edmonton Go Meetup - October (Planning)