Adventures of a GoLang Developer and former WordPress Engineer
One of my biggest career pet peeves as a software developer is when I see other developers derisively write “Well, that is just syntactic sugar“ in response to a proposal for improving a programming language. So today I want to write in defense of this often maligned underdog, and explain why syntactic sugar not only …
“Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time, and other programmers.” — @_rsc Tweeted by @davecheney
Photo by Chris Barbalis on Unsplash Working on a recent project that dealt with data synchronization across disparate systems, I realized I could not use the oh-so-easy INT for primary keys. Instead I chose to use the emerging best practice of employing UUIDs for distributed databases. However, the library functions in Go are not friendly …
PHP implements composition (vs. inheritance) of object class properties and methods to other classes using delegation. Go on the other hand implements composition with type embedding. Read this post to learn about the differences and to appreciate the benefits of Go’s approach compared to that of PHP.
Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash #Update When I wrote this I did not remember that the draft design for Go2 generics chose to use the name “Contracts” for a new language feature to provide a Go-idiomatic response to generics. Still, I stand by my use of the name contracts for this proposal as I …
Photo by Louise Lyshøj on Unsplash This is a GoLang Experience Report. …but you cannot define the rows parameter as type []RowInserter because []interface{} won’t match it, even though RowInserter is itself an interface. Background I am relatively new to programming Go, but I have been developing software professionally in a variety of programming languages …
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My previous blogs can be found at HardcoreWP.com and MikeSchinkel.com. I plan to merge them all into one at some point. But not today.
Goals of this Tutorial Welcome to this ongoing series whose goal is to teach Object Oriented Programming to WordPress developers. This series will teach you in a unique manner compared to traditional tutorials on OOP and based on my several decades of instructional experience. Using this approach it I believe it will be easier for …
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This is the first of an ongoing series whose goal is to teach Object Oriented Programming to WordPress developers. Check out the table of contents for the list of other installments. This first installment starts off slow and easy to ensure we don’t loose anyone. But fear not, future installments will accelerate the pace and challenge all …
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