InfoQ interview - Go Language at 13 Years
I had the pleasure of speaking with Olimpiu Pop from InfoQ about the Go language and community. …
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Gophers Say GopherCon Edition
Go Time panelists Natalie & Jon join forces with Go Team members Steve Francia, Katie …
Modern Enterprise Applications with Go - Go Day 2021
Go, the language of cloud infrastructure, is maturing into the language of modern enterprise …
Google Cloud Next 2021 - Modern Enterprise Applications with Go
Over the past couple of years, Go has matured to a complete end-to-end offering with seamless …
Break things on purpose podcast
I had the privilage of sitting down with my friend Jason Yee as a guest on his podcast. Listen …
Grokking Go.dev - Go Time Podcast
I had the privilage of joining my coworker Julie Qiu as we talked with our friends Carmen, Mat …
The Legacy of Go
This presentation was developed for GoLab in Firenze Italy and delivered as the closing keynote …
What Should a Modern Practical Programming Language Look Like
Keynote delivered at The Landing Festival – Berlin. This presentation describes the many …
Go – On The Shoulders of Giants
This presentation was developed for Curry On and delivered as the closing keynote of the …
演讲：Go, a global phenomenon (英语演讲)
This presentation was given in 深圳市 China, July 2018 as part of the InfoQ ArchSummit conference. …
New Go Branding Strategy
I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and …
State of the Go Nation – Gophercon Brasil 2017
This talk is an overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” …
State of the Go Nation – Gotham Go 2017
An overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” and “where …
State Of The Gopher Nation - Golang UK 2017
I am at GolangUK in London, having just finished giving the opening keynote. I was a bit more …
How to Contribute to Go
I wrote this presentation with Jessie Frazelle. She made it look very nice and delivered it at …
Life, Liberty, and Golang
A semi-autobiographical presentation given to the winners of Google’s 2017 Code-in …
Building an Awesome CLI App in Go – OSCON 2017
A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at OSCON 2017 outlining …
Building an Awesome Cli App in Go – Craft
A workshop written and delivered by Steve Francia and Ashley McNamara at CRAFT 2017 outlining …
Go Developer Survey
I joined GoTime to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting …
Hugo goes global
Hugo is going Global! Hugo 0.17, released today, is our best and fastest release ever! Hugo …
I’m joining the Go team at Google
I am honored to share that I have joined Google as a member of the Go team and will be …
7 common mistakes in Go – GopherFest 2015
Given at GopherFest 2015. This is an updated version of the talk I gave in NYC Nov 14 at …
What Every Open Source Project Needs
In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to …
How To Be A Good Open Source Community Member
A friend of mine who is a very talented writer recently became intrigued with open source and …
7 Common mistakes in Go and when to avoid them – Gotham Go
Not a generic list of programming mistakes, these are the lessons I wish I learned earlier …
Hugo Summer 2014 Update
Hugo, the fast and flexible static site generator, is really coming of age. I wanted to give a …
Evangelism is NOT Sales
I recently had a discussion with a CFO of a technology company. We were meeting because he is …
Go for Object Oriented Programmers
If you’re a OO programmer, especially one with a background with dynamic languages and are curious about go then this talk is for you. We will cover everything you need to know to leverage your existing skills and quickly start coding in golang
Using MongoDB with Go and mgo
This presentation will give developers an introduction and practical experience of using MongoDB with the Go language. MongoDB Chief Developer Advocate & Gopher Steve Francia presents plainly what you need to know about using MongoDB with Go.
Getting Started with Go
This presentation will walk you through the steps needed to get started with Go.
Pointers vs References
Some languages including C, C++ support pointers. Other languages including C++, Java, Python, …
Is Go an Object Oriented language?
To truly understand what it means to be ‘object-oriented’ you need to look back at the …
9 MongoDB 2.6 Drivers Released
I’m pleased to announce the coordinated release of drivers in 9 languages in preparation for …
Cross Compiling with Go
One of the great features of golang is that you can compile executables for many different …
Why I use spf13-vim
a completely cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim stays true to it's vim roots while adding modern features including a plugin management system, a curated plugin set with customized configuration, advanced autocomplete, tags, support for dozens of languages and much more.
A modern CLI Commander for go
Cobra is a commander providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI interfaces similar to git & go tools. In addition to providing an iterface, Cobra simultaneously provides a controller to organize your application code.
Refactoring with go fmt
using go fmt to quickly refactor your code
Building Modern Web Applications
I gave this presentation to a packed house at DevCon5 in NYC July 24th. DevCon5 is a web …
MongoDB and PHP Webinar
Workshop on MongoDB and PHP
Hugo: A fast and flexible static site generator built in GoLang
Hugo Website Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy …
Nitro : A quick and simple profiler for golang
Nitro is a quick and easy performance analyzer library for golang. It is useful for comparing …
MongoDB Driver days hackathon round up
A round up of projects created during the driver days hack day by the 10gen drivers team focused on the MongoDB user experience.
How to deliver a great conference tutorial
4 secrets I used to give the most popular presentation in the history of OSCON.
Getting Started with MongoDB and PHP
The first in a series of posts on MongoDB and PHP that will both explain why you should use MongoDB and teach you how.
NoSQL databases and Managing Big Data
A review of the various NoSQL databases including MongoDB, cassandra, redis and how they handle big data.
spf13-vim : Steve Francia's Vim Distribution
spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, Gvim and MacVim. It is a good …
spf13-vim 3.0 release and new website
spf13-vim is a cross platform distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.
Getting started with Drupal and MongoDB
Drupal is the standard in content management systems. MongoDB enables high performance Drupal. Get started with a MongoDB backed Drupal.
MongoDB and Hadoop
Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Hadoop for large-scale distributed data processing.
MongoDB and PHP, The Book
I wrote a book. It is published by O’Reilly, and available now on Amazon, O’Reilly Media and a …
MongoDB for Genealogy at RootsTech 2012
After an enjoyable time at the SORT conference in 2011 I was invited to come back to SLC to …
Backup, Replication and Disaster Recovery
How to go about creating better backups through replication and snapshots and how to ensure that your infrastructure has a solid disaster recovery plan.
Hybrid MongoDB / SQL Applications
MongoDB is often used alongside a relational database such as Oracle or MySQL. It is often …
Building your First app with MongoDB at MongoSV 2011
10gen had our flagship conference in Silicon Valley. I gave an introductory presentation at the …
E-commerce in LA
This week I joined a few of my co-workers down in LA. We met with a few companies and ran the …
Easy bash scripting with shflags
One of the most frustrating things about bash scripts is how challenging it is to create unix …
Creating a Symfony2 Console Command
One of the weaknesses of PHP as a languages has always been it’s ability to write proper …
Blending Mongo and RDBMS for ecommerce
Justin Hileman and I presented at MongoNYC 2011 to a packed house. Our presentation outlines …
The Browser as an application platform
With Google launching their chrome book is significant as it reflects a substantial shift in …
Creating your own Symfony2 Bundle
Symfony2 is a great web framework. OpenSky is built on this framework and we are one of the …
Release early, release often to minimize risk
Release Cycles have been debated for the last 30 years and will certainly be for the next 30. …
My Favorite Rands Posts
If you don’t know Rands (real name Michael Lopp), you should. His blog is full of excellent …
Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce
Justin Hileman and I gave a presentation on “Augmenting RDBMS with NoSQL for e-commerce” at the …
Getting Started with Symfony2
In a follow up to my popular post on Symfony2, the open source PHP framework we use at OpenSky, …
On Symfony2
Symfony2 is the latest brainchild of Fabien Potencier.
The perfect .vimrc vim config file
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration. This is the …
Software Development's Magic Triangle
There’s an old adage “Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Two”. This situation is called a magic triangle. …
MongoDB & Ecommerce : A Perfect Combination
Last night I gave a presentation on MongoDB & Ecommerce. OpenSky is the first company to …
16 lessons from 16 years
16 lessons learned I learned from my first 16 years working in the technology industry.
Ultimate Vim Config
I have spent the last few years tweaking and refining my VIM configuration until I had the …
The Golden Hammer
Every so often a “new” technology catches on. Right now it’s nosql databases. A couple years …
NoSQL Databases
Amazon, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter all started on sql databases (all but Amazon on …
Human readable du sorted by size
du is the *nix command for disk usage. It tells you how much space everything in the given …
Using the right keys
Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom …
REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest
What's SOAP? What's REST? and what the differences are between them with recommendations of when to use REST versus SOAP
My Online Business Card (Vcard)
I wanted to polish up my javascript coding so I decided that the best way to do that was with a …
7 security practices you need to follow
Some of this may seem like a broken record, yet every single time you hear about a bank losing …
Secure Automated, Key Based SSH
SSH is great and secure… Unless you need to automate it. Then it sucks because your only …
Installing Git on a Shared Host
Git is a fantastic tool and is very useful for deployment. If you can’t install git system wide …
Vim Plugins: NERD Commenter
The NERD Commenter is an indispensable tool when programming in VIM. It understands like a …
Mastering the Command Line
If you use *nix, no doubt you’ve spent some time on the command line. Here are a few of the …
Setting up Subversion with multiple access methods
One thing that makes subversion such a powerful revision system is it’s ability to permit …
How RIM handed the mobile market over to Apple
Just because you are the market leader doesn't mean you will stay the market leader. A lesson on competition given by Apple to RIM.
Using SVK to Increase Productivity
After subversion but before Git there was SVK. If you are stuck using subversion do yourself a favor and use svk.