aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/content/osconreport.article
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'content/osconreport.article')
-rw-r--r--content/osconreport.article53
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/content/osconreport.article b/content/osconreport.article
index 70b6fab..dfaf438 100644
--- a/content/osconreport.article
+++ b/content/osconreport.article
@@ -1,71 +1,72 @@
-Go at OSCON
+# Go at OSCON
20 Aug 2014
Tags: conference, oscon
+Summary: What happens in Portland in July? [OSCON](http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014)! At this year's conference, Go was more present than ever before, with five talks, two workshops, a [Birds of a Feather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_feather_(computing)) session, and a meetup.
Francesc Campoy
-* Introduction
+## Introduction
-What happens in Portland in July? [[http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014][OSCON]]! At
+What happens in Portland in July? [OSCON](http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014)! At
this year's conference, Go was more present than ever before, with five talks,
two workshops, a
-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_feather_(computing)][Birds of a Feather]]
+[Birds of a Feather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_feather_(computing))
session, and a meetup.
-* Talks
+## Talks
-[[http://twitter.com/mstine][Matt Stine]] talked about his experience switching
+[Matt Stine](http://twitter.com/mstine) talked about his experience switching
from Java to Go with
-[[http://www.slideshare.net/mstine/java-devlearnstogooscon][A recovering Java developer learns Go]]
-while [[https://twitter.com/spf13][Steve Francia]] presented
-[[http://spf13.com/presentation/MongoDB-and-Go][Painless Data Storage with MongoDB and Go]].
+[A recovering Java developer learns Go](http://www.slideshare.net/mstine/java-devlearnstogooscon)
+while [Steve Francia](https://twitter.com/spf13) presented
+[Painless Data Storage with MongoDB and Go](http://spf13.com/presentation/MongoDB-and-Go).
Steve also presented
-[[http://spf13.com/presentation/go-for-object-oriented-programmers][Go for Object Oriented Programmers]],
+[Go for Object Oriented Programmers](http://spf13.com/presentation/go-for-object-oriented-programmers),
where he explained how some object oriented concepts can be implemented in Go.
.image osconreport/talks.png _ 800
-Finally, [[http://twitter.com/offbymany][Josh Bleecher Snyder]] talked about his
+Finally, [Josh Bleecher Snyder](http://twitter.com/offbymany) talked about his
experience writing tools to work with Go source code in
-[[https://talks.golang.org/2014/hammers.slide#1][Gophers with hammers]],
-and [[http://twitter.com/francesc][Francesc Campoy]] talked about all the things
+[Gophers with hammers](https://talks.golang.org/2014/hammers.slide#1),
+and [Francesc Campoy](http://twitter.com/francesc) talked about all the things
that could have gone wrong and what the Go team did to prevent them
-[[https://talks.golang.org/2014/playground.slide][Inside the Go playground]].
+[Inside the Go playground](https://talks.golang.org/2014/playground.slide).
-* Workshops
+## Workshops
At the beginning of OSCON's workshop day, Steve Francia presented how to build a
web application and a CLI tool during
-[[http://spf13.com/presentation/first-go-app][Getting started with Go]] to a big
+[Getting started with Go](http://spf13.com/presentation/first-go-app) to a big
room full of Gophers.
.image osconreport/workshops.png _ 800
-In the afternoon, [[https://twitter.com/mmceniry][Chris McEniry]] gave his
-[[http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/115/A%20Quick%20Introduction%20to%20System%20Tools%20Programming%20with%20Go%20Presentation.pdf][Quick introduction to system tools programming with Go]] where he went over some useful skills to
+In the afternoon, [Chris McEniry](https://twitter.com/mmceniry) gave his
+[Quick introduction to system tools programming with Go](http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/en/assets/1/event/115/A%20Quick%20Introduction%20to%20System%20Tools%20Programming%20with%20Go%20Presentation.pdf) where he went over some useful skills to
write system tools using Go and its standard library.
-* Additional events
+## Additional events
To take advantage of the increased Gopher population in Portland during OSCON, we
-organized two extra events: the first [[https://twitter.com/pdxgolang][PDXGolang]]
+organized two extra events: the first [PDXGolang](https://twitter.com/pdxgolang)
meetup and a
-[[http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37775][Birds of a Feather session]].
+[Birds of a Feather session](http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37775).
.image osconreport/meetup.png _ 800
At the meetup Francesc Campoy talked about
-[[https://talks.golang.org/2013/bestpractices.slide][Go Best Practices]] and
-[[https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower][Kelsey Hightower]] gave a great
-introduction to [[https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes][Kubernetes]],
+[Go Best Practices](https://talks.golang.org/2013/bestpractices.slide) and
+[Kelsey Hightower](https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower) gave a great
+introduction to [Kubernetes](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes),
a container management system for clusters written in Go by Google. If you live
-in Portland, make sure you [[http://meetup.com/pdx-go][join the group]] and come
+in Portland, make sure you [join the group](http://meetup.com/pdx-go) and come
along to the next meeting.
The "Birds of a Feather" (or, more aptly, "Gophers of a Feather") was a lot of
fun for everyone involved. We hope to see more of you there next year.
-* In conclusion
+## In conclusion
.image osconreport/random.png _ 800