Next Meetup - 2013.08.22

Location

Galvanize/Gather: 1062 Delaware Street, Denver CO 80204 - ViaWest Cloud Conference Room East.
Just walk through Gather (the restaruant) and we are in the second conference room on the left.
There will be a sign outside the door promoting our meetup.

August Agenda

1. 6:30 - Meet and Greet. Drink some beer and eat some pizza compliments of Creative Alignments.
2. 7:00 - 7:15 - Go and Cryptography - Part 6: Presentation by Kyle Isom.
3. 7:15 - 7:30 - TBD

Talks

This is a list of slide presentations that we have had at the Denver Gopher meetups.

Click any of the presentations below to view the slide shows or pdf.

July 25, 2013

• Elliptic Curve Cryptography by Kyle Isom
• Comparison of go lang testing libraries by Stephan Hagemann
• Go Templates by Kevin Gillette

June 24, 2013

• Public Key Cryptography

May 23, 2013

• Go and Cryptography - Part 3: Presentation.
• Concurrency Metrics with Java Fork/Join, Akka Actors, and Goroutines
• Go, Can.js and JSON: Presentation.

April 25, 2013

• Tutorial and examples Passphrase-Protecting Symmetric Keys with go
• Tutorial and examples with mgo | Rich MongoDB driver for go

March 28, 2013

• Tutorial and examples on symmetric cryptography with go

Past Agenda's

2013.07.25

1. 6:30 - Meet and Greet. Drink some beer and eat some pizza compliments of Creative Alignments.
2. 7:00 - 7:15 - Go and Cryptography - Part 5: Presentation by Kyle Isom.
3. 7:15 - 7:30 - Go Testing Frameworks - Stephan Hagemann

2013.06.24

1. 6:30 - Meet and Greet. Drink some beer and eat some pizza compliments of bwbacon group.
2. 7:00 - 7:15 - Go and Cryptography - Part 4: Presentation by Kyle Isom.
3. 7:15 - 7:30 - UPDATED: Concurrency Metrics with Java Fork/Join, Akka Actors, and Goroutines by Dean W. Schulze

2013.05.23

1. 6:30 - Meet and Greet. Drink some beer and eat some pizza compliments of bwbacon group.
2. 7:00 - 7:15 - Go and Cryptography - Part 3: Presentation by Kyle Isom.
3. 7:15 - 7:30 - Concurrency Metrics with Java Fork/Join, Akka Actors, and Goroutines by Dean W. Schulze
4. 7:30 - 8:00 - Go, Can.js and JSON: Presentation by Levi Cook.
5. 7:15 - 9:00 - Round Table / Pair Programming / Question and Answer

2013.04.25

1. 6:30 - Meet and Greet. Drink some beer and eat some pizza compliments of bwbacon group.
2. 7:00 - 7:15 - Go and Cryptography - Part 2: Presentation by Kyle Isom.
3. 7:15 - 7:30 - MGO - Rich MongoDB driver for Go: Levi Cook/Cory LaNou.
4. 7:15 - 8:00 - Round Table / Pair Programming: We have a couple of topics that might be interesting to get people started on tonight. We'll discuss them, then decide where to dive in. If you have a specific topic/interest, let us know, and we can focus on that as well.
5. 8:00 - 9:00 - Question and Answer session.

2013.03.28

1. 6:30 - Meet and Greet. Drink some beer and eat some pizza compliments of bwbacon group.
2. 7:00 - 7:15 - Go and Cryptography - Part 1: Presentation by Kyle Isom.
3. 7:15 - 8:00 - Round Table / Pair Programming: We have a couple of topics that might be interesting to get people started on tonight. We'll discuss them, then decide where to dive in. If you have a specific topic/interest, let us know, and we can focus on that as well.
4. 8:00 - 9:00 - Question and Answer session.

2013.02.28

1. 6:30 - Meet and Greet. Drink some beer and eat some pizza compliments of bwbacon group.
2. 6:40 - 6:45 - Brief introduction from our sponsors bwbacon group bwbacon.com.
   Special thanks to them for the beer and pizza!
3. 6:45 - 7:00 - Continue eating/drinking. Meet/Greet/Introductions.
4. 7:00 - 8:00 - Round Table: We had several topics to pick through, but looking at the attendess, we are going to have people that know nothing about Go, and some that have some pretty good experience. We had this format for our first meeting, and it went great. We will be doing adhoc programming on the big screen to show examples of code, as well as we are open to helping with anyones project as well.
   Feel free to bring your ideas/questions. There will be plenty of us to split into groups as well if we want to focus on different areas.
5. 8:00 - 9:00 - Question and Answer session.

Resources

• GO+ This community is really picking up and has a lot of great posts and resources
• GO wiki A little about everything here. Check here first if you are looking for more resources on go
• golang.org The official site for the GO language
• Go Playground Create and share go snippets
• Go Tour Great way to learn go for the first time
• Effective Go This is a MUST read for anybody learning go as an experienced developer
• Additional Effective Go Notes
• 10 Things you (probably) didn't know about go - Amazing quick tips for making you a better go programmer. This is a post in response to most people new to go and what they have an "alergic" reaction to. MUST READ for new developers!
• Golang Videos Amazing videos explaining key areas and concepts about go. The first video about Concurrency is amazing!
• loader.io Just released, this is a cloud based load testing tool. Very impressive tool.
• Go By Example
• Golang-book
• Go book app spot

Denver Gopher Social Media

• Meetup.com Official meetup site with all the scheduled meetups
• Github Github account used to post before and after code/comments from our meetups
• @DenverGophers Our twitter account. Please follow us to find out the latest news/events in the local area about go!
• G+ Our G+ Community page.

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About The Organizers

Levi Cook

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Levi Cook is a founder and Chief Technology Officer at SupportLocal and is in charge of leading the company’s engineering team.
Mr. Cook is a seasoned open-source programmer. He has been a featured speaker at numerous programming conferences and regional software groups. He is also the author of a number of published articles, including IBM Developer Works. He has over 13 years of experience in developing software applications. He is a specialist in development practices required for building large-scale Internet-based applications. An Internet industry veteran, Mr. Cook has contributed to dozens of open source software projects and has helped many organizations adopt and succeed with agile developmental practices. Prior to SupportLocal, Mr. Cook served as a lead developer for Alice.com, a top home supplies - direct from manufacturer, e- commerce company. At Alice, he led a diverse team of technicians and was responsible for large-scale rails development including real time demographic targeting engines and inventory and warehouse management systems. Prior to Alice, Mr. Cook served as Development Engineer and Integration Architect at WEA Trust where he developed actuarial and claim and benefit management systems, as well as serving as a Senior IT Consultant at Isthmus Group and Greenbrier & Russell.

###Cory LaNou linked-in twitter g+ github

Cory LaNou is a Founder and Chief Information Officer at SupportLocal and is responsible for leading all application development efforts. Prior to SupportLocal, Mr. LaNou was the founding engineer of LocalLaunch. At LocalLaunch, he was responsible for leading and implementing the first set of core architecture including customer relationship management tools, automated billing, product setup and configuration, API integrations with Google and Yahoo, in addition to all reporting interfaces. Mr. LaNou played the key role in the technology and architecture of the award-winning LocalLaunch software platform. Mr. LaNou has over 14 years of industry experience in software and network engineering. Prior to LocalLaunch, Mr. Lanou founded and served as CIO of Pulsity, Inc. a leading Internet strategy firm. At Pulsity, Inc. he lead all application development efforts and oversaw the build of over a hundred Internet based software applications. Previously, Mr. Lanou served as lead application developer at Computer Discount Warehouse (cdw.com), where he played a key role in executing the strategy behind Microsoft’s first e-commerce partner venture, code named “Nitro”. Mr. LaNou also consulted with industry leaders such as 3com, Hewlett Packard, and IBM. He also architected and wrote CDW’s leading extranet and intranet solutions.