The Silver Searcher

Dave Cheney joined the show this week to discuss SOLID Go design, software design in Go, what it means to write “good Go code”, and error handling.

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Featuring:

• Dave Cheney – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• YOW! West 2016 Dave Cheney - SOLID Go Design (video)
• Golang UK Conference 2016 - Dave Cheney - SOLID Go Design (video)
• Golang UK Conference 2016 - Dave Cheney - Seven ways to Profile Go Applications (video)
• Gang of Four (GoF) Design Patterns (wiki)
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (book)
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (book)
• RubyConf 2009 - SOLID Ruby by: Jim Weirich (video)
• Don’t just check errors, handle them gracefully
• GopherCon 2016: Dave Cheney - Don’t Just Check Errors Handle Them Gracefully (video)
• Mat Ryer’s blog post: Line of sight in code
• GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen - Mind the Gap

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- linux rsync!!
• Dave - pt: an ack alternative
• Carlisia - Sourcegraph
• Erik - Asciidoctor: A fast text processor & publishing toolchain

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