| Two Go Talks: "Lexical Scanning in Go" and "Cuddle: an App Engine Demo" |
| 1 Sep 2011 |
| Tags: appengine, lexer, talk, video |
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| Andrew Gerrand |
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| * Introduction |
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| On Tuesday night Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand each presented at the [[http://www.sydney-gtug.org/][Sydney Google Technology User Group]]. |
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| Rob's talk, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE][Lexical Scanning in Go]]", |
| discusses the design of a particularly interesting and idiomatic piece of Go code, |
| the lexer component of the new [[https://golang.org/pkg/exp/template/][template package.]] |
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| .iframe //www.youtube.com/embed/HxaD_trXwRE 345 560 |
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| The slides are [[http://cuddle.googlecode.com/hg/talk/lex.html][available here]]. |
| The new template package is available as [[https://golang.org/pkg/exp/template/][exp/template]] in Go release r59. |
| In a future release it will replace the old template package. |
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| Andrew's talk, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtLRqqB-Kk][Cuddle: an App Engine Demo]]", |
| describes the construction of a simple real-time chat application that uses |
| App Engine's [[http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/datastore/overview.html][Datastore]], |
| [[http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/channel/overview.html][Channel]], |
| and [[http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/datastore/memcache.html][Memcache]] APIs. |
| It also includes a question and answer session that covers [[http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/gettingstarted/][Go for App Engine]] |
| and Go more generally. |
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| .iframe //www.youtube.com/embed/HQtLRqqB-Kk 345 560 |
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| The slides are [[http://cuddle.googlecode.com/hg/talk/index.html][available here]]. |
| The code is available at the [[http://code.google.com/p/cuddle/][cuddle Google Code project]]. |
