Parsing strings would arguably be one of the more basic operations that one can do in any language. Sometimes, this may mean comma separated values from an user input on a web page, it may mean parsing application arguments from os.Args, or parse some line based input like lines from an IRC chat, Slack, Discord or some other chat system for a bot.
If you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve been developing Pendulum editor as part of the #100DaysOfCode challenge, where one commits to writing code at least one hour per day. Pendulum is a web based editor which is great for editing simple text and Markdown files.
Slices are tricky. If you have been using Go for a while now, you may be aware that a slice is basically a triplet consisting of a:
This makes working with slices also a bit different than working with structs.
Viper is a popular configuration library that’s designed with 12 factor applications in mind.
Viper is a complete configuration solution for go applications including 12 factor apps. It is designed to work within an application, and can handle all types of configuration needs and formats. Viper can be thought of as a registry for all of your applications configuration needs.
Let’s use it to provide configuration for a typical application.
Having more than a decade of experience with MySQL, there are a few tricks I picked up over the years that I believe should be in the arsenal of every developer who works with this database more than just superficially. I’m going to list a quick break-down of them from the top of my head.
Being a software engineer, programmer, developer - is not a destination. The good ones have a natural curiosity, where the main measure of an activity is what you learned while doing it. There’s a number of things that people learn - some which can eventually be explained away by documentation. What it logical isn’t always how things are.
