intellij tricks for gophers

5 IntelliJ Tricks for Gophers

A small collection of IntelliJ tips and tricks for getting more out of your day or simply doing the same amount for work with less effort. 1. Install the IntelliJ Go plugin from here Enough said. 2....
golang and revenge of capt obvious

Golang and the revenge of Capt Obvious

I found a lot of my code (particularly the tests) had code that looked like this:   Then I was reading yet another great post from Karl Seguin and I noticed there was a much better (sexier) way....
go quick tip

Go Get (Quick Tip)

All Golang programmer's are aware of how great "go get" is but until today I had not given much thought to how exactly it did or didn't do. Some background; today one of my builds (in Travis...
go quick tip

Enums in Golang (Quick Tip)

For those of you like me who Go is not the first language you learned, you might be familiar with "Enums" or "Enumerated Types". While Go does not have an enum per-say you can achieve...