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Using Tools: A Meeting Scheduler

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Introduction LLM are great, but they are trained on public data sets. In some cases, you need the LLM to use data that’s not publicly available or that’s frequently changing. There are …

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Jul 20, 2013

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OSCON 2013 - The Gophers Are Coming

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On June 22nd through the 26th, Portland Oregon is hosting OSCON (Open Source Convention). The event is run by O’Reilly. After looking at the speakers list it …

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Jul 12, 2013

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Understanding Type in Go

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When I was coding in C/C++ it was imperative to understand type. If you didn’t, you would get into a lot of trouble with both the compiler and running your code. …

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Jul 10, 2013

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Object Oriented Programming in Go

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Someone asked a question on the forum today on how to gain the benefits of inheritance without embedding. It is really important for everyone to think in terms of Go and …

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Jul 6, 2013

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Singleton Design Pattern in Go

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Multi-threaded applications are very complicated, especially when your code is not organized and consistent with how resources are accessed, managed and maintained. If …

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Jul 5, 2013

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How Packages Work in Go

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Since I started writing code in Go it has been a mystery to me how best to organize my code and use the package keyword. The package keyword is similar to using a …

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Jun 24, 2013

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Running Go Programs as a Background Process

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I have been writing Windows services in C/C++ and then in C# since 1999. Now that I am writing server based software in Go for the Linux OS I am completely lost. What is …

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Jun 17, 2013

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Reading XML Documents in Go

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I was really surprised how easy it was to read an XML document using the encoding/xml package that comes with the standard library. The package works by defining structs …

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Jun 13, 2013

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Send an email in Go with smtp.SendMail

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I wanted to send an email from my TraceLog package when a critical exception occurred. Fortunately Go’s standard library has a package called smpt which can be …

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Jun 11, 2013

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Go's time.Duration Type Unravelled

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I have been struggling with using the Time package that comes in the Go standard library. My struggles have come from two pieces of functionality. First, trying to …