A little over 2 and a half years ago I started playing with that new language called Go. Coming mostly from .NET and node.js, I was at first intrigued by its concurrency features and its lack of object inheritance, and impressed by the quality of the team behind it.
Patchwork is a toolkit for connecting various devices into a network of things or, in a more broad case - Internet of Things (IoT). A tl;dr picture describing the idea behind it is shown below.
Nigel Tao and Nick Cooper have been working on a new WebDAV package for the golang.org/x/net repository. The package is still in its formative stages, so this isn’t a review of the package itself.
In the middle of writing my blog engine dynocator, I wondered about the best possible way to read data from a config file. My first approach was to read line by line from the file and use the wonderful strings package to parse the data I want.