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Issue 84 — November 12, 2015
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Six Years of Go
Just 6 years ago this week, Go was released as an open source project. Andrew Gerrand briefly reflects on the progress Go has made in this time.
Andrew Gerrand
testing/quick: Go's Little-Known Blackbox Test Harness   video 
A tidy 40 minute Google Tech Talk overview of testing/quick, a handy package for doing blackbox testing in Go. If you’d rather read than watch, the speaker has a blog post too.
YouTube
My Go IDE in a Container
Ray was getting his vim-based Go development setup going but was concerned of the effort involved if he had to redo it from scratch, so he built it as a Docker container instead.
Ray Tsang
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http2 in Go 1.6   slidedeck 
The slidedeck of Brad Fitzpatrick’s dotGo talk about Go 1.6’s native support for HTTP/2. Video likely to be available soon if you’d rather wait.
dotGo 2015
Which Language Has The Brighest Future in Replacing C: D, Go, or Rust?
Andrei Alexandrescu, co-creator of the D language, gave some good insights here. Spoiler: he’s not a huge Go fan.
Quora
Gauge: A Cross-Platform Test Automation Tool   tools 
A solid looking project from ThoughtWorks. Curiously. while it’s entirely written in Go itself, it only supports Java, Ruby and C# for the underlying test code.
ThoughtWorks
shortuuid: A Generator of Short, Unambiguous URL-Safe UUIDs   code 
Based on and compatible with the Python library of the same name. Example: shortuuid.UUID() may return "ajLWxEodc6CmQLHADuKVwD"
Peter Renström
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In Brief
Go Generate Your Database Code   tutorial 
Use go:generate to quickly build domain methods on top of sqlx.
WillowTree Development Blog
Turning GoLang Code into an npm Module with GopherJS   tutorial 
Mark Percival
Doing Image Analysis in Golang   video 
Todd McLeod
Go's Error Handling is Elegant   opinion 
David Nix
Tools for Working with Go Code   slidedeck   tools 
Fatih Arslan
golongpoll: An HTTP Long-Polling Library That Makes Web Pub-Sub Easy   code 
J Cuga
noti: Display A Notification After A Terminal Process Finishes on OS X   code 
Jaime Piña
Xig: A Globally Unique ID Generator   code 
It uses Mongo’s object ID algorithm.
Olivier Poitrey
minio-go: Go Library for Amazon S3-Compatible Cloud Storage   code 
Minio Cloud Storage
Evo: A Framework for Evolutionary Algorithms in Go   code 
Chris Barrick
features: Handy Tool to Deal with Feature Toggling in Go   code 
Alberto Leal
goxpath: An XPath implementation in Go   code 
Still at an early stage though.
Chris Trenkamp
Advanced JavaScript Highlights
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