I noticed that many struggled with encoding and decoding JSON in Go. Here I cover the issues developers run into and how to solve them.
Tag: golang
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers free tier web servers where you can run simple go programs for API backends or websites. In this guide we will make a simple web server using a go program. This guide can also be used as a reference to set up AWS instances for larger go services. To begin […]
Begin by running the following command to add the golang backports ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports If you get an error such as “add-apt-repository command not found” then you need to run the following command to install add-apt-repository:
In my previous post I wrote a guide on how to post a simple Slack message using a bot with PHP. Now we will do the same thing but instead with Go. I have also decided to send a json request instead of a form-url encoded request like we did with PHP. There are some […]
Begin by running the following command to add the golang backports ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports If you get an error such as “add-apt-repository command not found” then you need to run the following command to install add-apt-repository:
Also: See my guide on installing Go 1.11 here. Begin by running the following command to add the golang ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gophers/archive If you get an error such as “add-apt-repository command not found” then you need to run the following command to install add-apt-repository:
A Quick Disclaimer: I’m a programmer and have very little experience trading. Please do your own research before using the algorithm I create for the cryptocurrency trading bot or any other algorithm. Only trade with money you can afford to lose. In this guide I will show you how to create a cryptocurrency trading bot […]
I stumbled across a scraper and crawler framework written in Go called Colly. Colly makes it really easy to scrape content from web pages with it’s fast speed and easy interface. I have always been interested in web scrapers ever since I did a project for my university studies and you can read about that […]
This guide assumes you are using Ubuntu Linux 16.04 (Xenial) but will most likely work for setting up a Go development environment on other versions of linux. You can still follow this guide if you are using OSX but some small things will differ such as the binary to download. You could always run Go […]
Sometimes when I am working with dummy database I might need to change the password of a generated user. The easiest way to do this is to got to google for a bcrypt generator and then paste the generated hash into the database in order to update the password. This is much quicker than having […]