Monday, September 07, 2015

"Do Something!" with Go, JQuery and Delicious api

it is best when learning a new programming language to exercise on some practical problem.
well, one problem i have is having to put up with plugins for delicious, so i decided to write a server to which to send link information and which in turn would use delicious' api and add new link.
the half-baked, but working version of this i posted at https://github.com/esdee-git/deligo.
it was a good exercise with go, and wiring it with bootstrap and jquery in the frontend - good, fun stuff.
some points to take from this..
go is a fine language to write in, even for prototypes for which i had special place reserved for python.
definitely the creators of the language limited it to specific needs, yet it is a powerful language - at least from my humble experience with it.
on the other pole - bootstrap is quite handy and it was high time i got touch of real jquery

overall - i finally managed to follow two mantras: "do something" and "finish something", so this might be a good start to develop something bigger and better

salut!