Golang

Using Go’s build constraint tag to help build mock services for service testing

So recently I was asked help get some API services built with go to be testable through service testing. By service testing I mean using `go test` to test JSON payloads coming from the running…

How to get a multipart file size in Golang

OK, so your asking yourself, why… that’s easy with os.File you can just use the Stat() method and get the os.FileInfo and inside the os.FileInfo struct there is a Size() method and that will return an int64.

file, err :=…

EMBED OTHER BINARIES IN GOLANG BINARY

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BACKGROUND

This just started as a thought… What if I could compile an existing executable binary into a golang binary. So in my mind I toyed with the idea, and so far the…

GENERATING DATAURI IMAGES WITH GO

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BACKGROUND:

This post came from one of the challenges set by my local GoLang user group.

Problem 2:

Create an API with an…

WRITE A SIMPLE MARKDOWN EDITOR WITH GO-QML

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BACKGROUND:

Golang has really become my go to language, and has replaced Python as my main scripting language. I love how easy it is to write. I love how fast it is…