Year’s end is coming closer. Time to clean up repositories and polishing up the toolset. All the well-known tools have been installed already–is there anything else to add to the toolbox?
database/sql has many new features to better enable writing and controlling queries. In short it adds support for:
Cancelable queries Returning the SQL database types Returning multiple result sets Ping hitting the database server Named parameters Transaction isolation levels Cancelable Queries
Contributing to the Go project can seem overwhelming, especially at first. The official Contribution Guidelines document is rather lengthy, but after working through the initial Google CLA and Gerrit authentication process, it becomes much easier to contribute to the project.
Two of my favorite things to do are write Go code and make BBQ. This fall, I started a project that combined these passions into an interesting project.
Quick Intro to NATS, and Why We Love Go! For those of you who have been reading GopherAcademy for a while, you may already be familiar with NATS via last year’s post, or you may have known about NATS for a while before that - NATS was one of the earliest production applications written in Golang.
