January 2015 Meetup

Food at 6:30 pm. Talks at 7:00.

Please RSVP at Meetup or Google+.

Talks

Amazon S3 with Go

Nathan Youngman (s3up source)

Error Handling In Go

William Kennedy (GothamGo video, slides)

News

• Go 1.4.1 release
• GopherCon 2015 Tickets Available
• GopherCon 2015 Call for Proposals
• Go Newsletter 41, now published by Cooper Press.
• Improvements on gopkg.in by Gustavo Niemeyer
• Google Aims at Bootstrapping Go 1.5
• Gopher Gala Submissions (Gift by Scott Brooks)
• Edmonton Go Workshop Photos

Jobs

• Trumpet in Calgary, AB

Articles

Errors

• Errors Are Values by Rob Pike
• Error Handling In Go by William Kennedy
• Concurrent Error Handling by John Schaeffer
• Errors and Exceptions, redux by Dave Cheney

Opinion

• Why Tech Startups Should Look At Go by William Kennedy
• Golang is Trash by Keith Wesolowski
• Comparing Go and .NET by Justin Beckwith
• Features I Like about Go by Abhi Yerra

Videos

• Hacking with Andrew and Brad
• GothamGo Conference
• Essential Go by Jeremy Saenz

Books

• The Ultimate Guide To Building Database-Driven Apps With Go by Baron Schwartz

Events

• Monthly Hackathon - February 7
• GopherCon India - February 19-21
• GopherCon 2015 - July 8-9 at the Colorado Convention Center
• Edmonton Go Meetup - February