Command Line Option Parser
Last May, after I finished my config package, I ended up with a nice decoder and a struct traversal routine that I knew would work perfectly for a command line …
Go Config
When I decided to write a configuration file package for Go, there were a few basic features that I knew it must have. There were already plenty of other Go …
Hitchhiker’s Lorem Ipsum
Lorem Ipsum Hitchhiker simply generating synthesized improbability drive. Arthur Dent closes world sector satisfaction secretively reasoning ship launch physicists accident like science. Successful rulers effects of Babel Fish hallucinations happen …
Random Integers and Strings
The package mrand is a wrapper for Go’s math/rand package. It provides three functions: Int, Int64, and String. Both Int and Int64 are variadic functions so they may be passed …
Simplified Encryption and Decryption for Golang
The aes256 package provides simplified encryption and decryption functions using the standard crypto/aes package. It implements a 256 bit key length and the GCM cipher. The key may be a …
Magic Bytes
Magic Bytes, also known as Magic Numbers, are the first few bytes of a binary file that indicate what type it is. I wrote a simple Magic Bytes Go package …
Passing a map to a function
In Golang, when a map is passed to a function, only the wrapper (i.e. header) is passed while the underlying data is not. This is a very efficient method which …
A drop-in replacement for Go’s log package with a few enhancements
The golog package is a fork of Go’s log package. It is functionally identical to Go’s log package which makes it a drop-in replacement with a few added features. The …
Hello Go
Every programmer remembers their first “Hello World” experience. My first was on Atari Basic where I entered the following two lines: 10 print “Hello World” 20 goto 10 Watching the …