#codingrobots

i feel like im insulting both of them for even insinutaing that they write like me. i mean, i didn't insinuate it, but still...

At least, that's what these helpful robots told me. They also said I write like Anne Rice, Dan Brown, and Neil Gaiman. So it must be true.

I think I was one of the first people to release a "real" program written in Go, a day or two after its public introduction in 2009. Since then I've fell in love with this programming language, wrote many open source packages and contributed to its standard and crypto libraries. However, I haven't used Go in our (Coding Robots) commercial projects. This changes with the release of our new website.

First of all, the whole static website is generated by a Go program -- kkr. As you may remember, I started coding the new website in Jekyll, and even contributed to its development, however I was unsatisfied with it, so I wrote my own static site generator. It's pretty much a Jekyll clone, but uses Go templates instead of Liquid. (The source code is open, however I don't recommend it for the general public yet.) By the way, I also transitioned Proper Picks and Language Burger websites to it; it took me just a few hours to do.

Secondly, licensing. When you purchase our software, you receive a short registration code to enter into the app. These codes are being generated by a Go program. I wrote about it in August. Writing software that uses cryptography is pleasure in Go: a lot of primitives are available from the standard library, or from the official go.crypto repository, and the speed of compiled code is decent. The registration code generator also updates a customers database, which is used in the next program.

Finaly, a lost registration code reminder is written in Go. It's a little server program showing a web form, which asks for email address and then sends the code reminder to this address. The program uses a few packages I wrote before, the most visible of which is captcha.