Starting new post for learning Golang

config.toml

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   disqus = "jakewindle-life"
   # CSS name for highlight.js
   highlightjs = "androidstudio"
-  highlightjs_extra_languages = ["yaml", "julia"]
+  highlightjs_extra_languages = ["yaml", "julia", "go"]
   dateFormat = "02 Jan 2006, 15:04"
   # Include any custom CSS and/or JS files
   # (relative to /static folder)
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ theme = "blackburn"
 
   # SNS microblogging
 
+
   # SNS career oriented
   linkedin = "windlejacob12"
 

content/post/learning-go-pointer-receivers.md

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+---
+title: "Learning Go: Methods and Pointer Receivers"
+date: 2017-12-29T10:46:08-05:00
+draft: true
+tags: ["golang", "learning"]
+---
+
+# I gotta get Go-ing with this language
+
+Being in the position I am, I've worked with almost nothing but exclusively interpreted languages, namely Ruby and Python.
+Both of these are great tools to have to solve problems and to solve them quickly. It is easy to pick up an idea and get
+a prototype going in Python or Ruby due to not having to run any compilation, code changes can be tested instantly often by
+just rerunning the interpreter. However, this can be a problem when programs get large. I've been a part of projects
+where there are hundreds of thousands of lines of Ruby and Python code where changes to some backend call can cause a ten second
+difference in the load time of the frontend client.
+
+![Image](/img/post/golang.gif)
+
+
+People much smarter than me at Google have created and actively develop the programming language Go, which is a compiled language
+that does a lot of cool things out of the box. Knowing how many problems I've had in development that could be potentially solved by Go 
+(and missing compilers which catch some nasty bugs before the software starts), I want to learn Go and blog about cool things I find or cool
+things I do with it.
+
+## Methods in Golang?
+
+Yes, and this comes from old OOP concepts of message passing to objects. These methods are a neat way to be able to add functionality to your
+types you define in Go. If you are like me coming from OOP languages, methods are a very helpful construct.
+
+So we've got these people right? And people in this universe are very simple. All they have to identify them is their name, their astrological sign
+and their disposition.
+
+```go
+type Person struct { name, sign, disposition String }
+```
+
+Now a person's name may not change, not their sign, but what about their disposition? I'd say my average day is an emotional rollercoaster! Only kidding,
+but we need a way to operate on the person's disposition, let's say based on weather.
+
+```go
+// Actually a pointer receiver
+func (p *Person) AlterDisposition (weather string) {
+    switch weather {
+    case 'rainy':
+        p.disposition = "sad"
+    case 'sunny':
+        p.disposition = "happy"
+    default:
+        p.disposition = "meh"
+    }
+}
+```
+
+That's a funky syntax for this
+
+
+