Bitcoin Mining for charity

At tonight’s Surrey Golang meetup, former Professor of Mathematics Busiso Chisala demonstrated an early solution for distributed bitcoin mining, and the plan is to give all of the money to charity. The idea is inspired by SETI – The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. Many thousands of people around the world have volunteered their computing time…

Go Blimey

Last night, at the Surrey Go User Group, Simon Ritchie presented the first Go Blimey project: “Films” This is a MVC web server written in Go with restful interfaces providing CRUD operations on database tables. This project is up on Github at github.com/goblimey/films We discussed various aspects of the design and how it could evolve. For…

A Tour of Go

This is a useful guide for beginners with simple examples to try out on each page. Basics 1: Random Number Basics 2: Square Root Basics 3: Pi and Exported Names Basics 4: Functions and Adding Numbers Basics 5: shorthand function signature Basics 6: Swap Function Basics 7: Named return values Basics 8: Variables Basics 9:…

Surrey Go User Group Meetup

The inaugural Surrey Go User Group meetup was held in Dorking, England tonight. Attendees were a mixture of Go lang enthusiasts and other developer coming to learn what all the fuss is about Go. Kevin Golding presented the event. Kevin came to Go from a Node JS background. He has found Go to be extremely…