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First contact It’s been about 8 years since I started playing with Go. At that moment I met a colleague who had left my workplace to try his luck at a new challenge in his professional career. One day talking to him he told me that they had decided to use a programming language called Go and that he was delighted with how easy it was to do things that with Java, the language we were used to using, was tremendously crude and sometimes complex, due to to the number of layers and repetitions you have to add....

Introduction If you need to present any kind of data in a structured and formatted way you could find this article interesting. Go provides a way to do this in an easy and effective manner with two packages, text/template and html/template. The first one is focused on formatting texts in general and I am using it to generate my README page in GitHub. You can find the details in https://github.com/charly3pins/charly3pins. In this article, I am going to cover the second one, the templating for HTML pages....

Introduction During the last 5 years I have been working full time with Go. Some of you may already know that I’m in love with this language because of the simplicity it has but with a lot of potential to build anything. The main question I have faced since the beginning is Which layout should I use for my project? I would say still today I don’t know and as always in our industry… it depends....

Working with static files is never an easy task and less so in Go since we did not have native support for them and we had to pull third-party libraries. With the release of Go 1.16 this changed. And it changed for the better, since it includes a new package called embed that natively helps us work with static files. In the official documentation of the package (previous link) there are several examples of use of this library:...

After the post where I explained how to create a README for the GitHub profile, I missed including in the section of the Blog a link to the last post published. I mainly didn’t because I didn’t want to have to manually update the README every time with the last post and its link. To solve this I was thinking how I could automate this update. While doing my daily reading of the RSS feeds I follow with the Feedly app, I stumbled upon that I also had RSS feeds....