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by achilleasa 7y ago
Not sure how the code in action link is supposed to work. That is probably a general feature offered by Packt which is not used by this particular book.
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by achilleasa 7y ago
I had already set up an author-central account on amazon.co.uk but it seems like sales info (looks like it's US-only) is only available if you also sign up for an author-central account on amazon.com
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by achilleasa 7y ago
Apart than the fact that the editors were not native English speakers and I had to spend quite a bit of time reverting several of their editing changes, the whole process was generally smooth and distraction-free (although note I haven&#x27
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by achilleasa 7y ago
I totally get your point but dep was (for quite a bit) the official dependency manager experiment before the proposal for Go modules moved forward and is still hosted under the golang GitHub repo with no deprecation notice. As mentioned in
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by achilleasa 7y ago
I'd say it's more of a personal preference really. I have hit some issues trying to use Go modules in the past (although support for Go modules has admittedly improved vastly since the last time I used them) and dep has always wor
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by achilleasa 7y ago
To be fair, I have included a section that extols the benefits of Go modules and hints that this is the way forward. However, for the book source code, I opted to use dep to make sure it can be used by folks that use older Go compiler versi
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by achilleasa 7y ago
The first chapters focus exclusively on the SOLID design principles and best practices for testing and vendoring while the rest of the chapters get progressively more and more technical. I think the material should be relatively easy to fol
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by achilleasa 7y ago
Hi HN! After several months of intense writing and code debugging I have finally published my first book: Hands-on Software Engineering with Golang (link in title). I tried to differentiate from other Go books out there by including things
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Show HN: My Book, Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang(packtpub.com)
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by achilleasa 9y ago
Yes, the talk will be recorded and posted online with the slides and some getting started code.
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by achilleasa 9y ago
I take a slightly different approach for my implementation that allows me to use the standard go toolchain. I use nasm for the early ASM code and patch the go build tool's output (see: https://github.com/achilleasa&#x2F
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by achilleasa 9y ago
Hi, I am the author of gopher-os. It started as a fun research project to learn more about the Go runtime internals and I didn't really expect it making it to HN. If you take a look at the Go runtime sources you will notice that all th