After much anticipation, arguably the best week of the National Hunt racing calendar is upon us as we finally welcome the 2021 Cheltenham Festival. It needs no more explaining that this year is going to be vastly different to the usual with the absence of crowds, but that won’t distract us from the action in store for us which gets going tomorrow afternoon. The announcement from the course on Monday detailed that the going was soft, good to soft in places with the rainfall over the weekend being key to the description. It is expected to be dry on the whole throughout the rest of the week....…After much anticipation, arguably the best week of the National Hunt racing calendar is upon us as we finally welcome the 2021 Cheltenham Festival. It needs no more explaining that this year is going to be vastly different to the usual with the absence of crowds, but that won’t distract us from the action in store for us which gets going tomorrow afternoon. The announcement from the course on Monday detailed that the going was soft, good to soft in places with the rainfall over the weekend being key to the description. It is expected to be dry on the whole throughout the rest of the week....WW…

After a pulsating opening day at the 2021 Cheltenham Festival that saw Honeysuckle crowned Champion Hurdler and Appreciate It and Skishkin blitz their rivals, we move on to the second day of the festival in search of something similar. Wednesday’s action gives us four more Grade 1 races including a host of well-fancied favourites looking to put on a show and get in the winner’s enclosure. The Cheltenham Festival opener on day two seems to between the three at the head of the market on the face of it. Bob Olinger has been well supported over the last week and was given the green light by...…After a pulsating opening day at the 2021 Cheltenham Festival that saw Honeysuckle crowned Champion Hurdler and Appreciate It and Skishkin blitz their rivals, we move on to the second day of the festival in search of something similar. Wednesday’s action gives us four more Grade 1 races including a host of well-fancied favourites looking to put on a show and get in the winner’s enclosure. The Cheltenham Festival opener on day two seems to between the three at the head of the market on the face of it. Bob Olinger has been well supported over the last week and was given the green light by...WW…

We asked and it delivered. Day two at the Cheltenham festival was an afternoon packed full of drama and heart-warming stories. Bob Olinger took the opener in tremendous style, Monkfish did enough to prevail comfortably despite a few hiccups along the way, Put The Kettle On backed up her Arkle win with a brilliant victory in the Champion Chase to deny Chacun Por Soi and Nube Negra whilst fan favourite Tiger Roll took back his Cross Country Chase crown in spectacular fashion, reversing the form with Easysland from last year. On Thursday with have three Grade 1 races including the Marsh...…We asked and it delivered. Day two at the Cheltenham festival was an afternoon packed full of drama and heart-warming stories. Bob Olinger took the opener in tremendous style, Monkfish did enough to prevail comfortably despite a few hiccups along the way, Put The Kettle On backed up her Arkle win with a brilliant victory in the Champion Chase to deny Chacun Por Soi and Nube Negra whilst fan favourite Tiger Roll took back his Cross Country Chase crown in spectacular fashion, reversing the form with Easysland from last year. On Thursday with have three Grade 1 races including the Marsh...WW…

Thursday gave us plenty to think about at Cheltenham as we saw Rachael Blackmore take over once more with two more brilliant winners on Allaho and Tellmesomethinggirl, Flooring Porter took the Stayers Hurdle in fine style from the front whilst the shock of the week came in the opener. Envoi Allen fell to lose his unbeaten record and Chantry House won the Marsh for Nico De Boinville and Nicky Henderson. We come to the final day of the 2021 Cheltenham Festival, the curtain-raiser to a fantastic week full of thrills and spills and it’s Gold Cup day, the highlight for so many racing fans....…Thursday gave us plenty to think about at Cheltenham as we saw Rachael Blackmore take over once more with two more brilliant winners on Allaho and Tellmesomethinggirl, Flooring Porter took the Stayers Hurdle in fine style from the front whilst the shock of the week came in the opener. Envoi Allen fell to lose his unbeaten record and Chantry House won the Marsh for Nico De Boinville and Nicky Henderson. We come to the final day of the 2021 Cheltenham Festival, the curtain-raiser to a fantastic week full of thrills and spills and it’s Gold Cup day, the highlight for so many racing fans....WW…

You may have seen the advertisements that are automatically placed into various sections on many of the pages of this website.The team at Ezoic handles all that for me, allowing me to focus on writing about the things that I care about and sharing what I’ve learnt about coding with other Go developers.So I want to discuss the frankly impressive service provided by Ezoic — and how it could help you boost advertising revenue for any websites you run — before giving you the opportunity to join the ad network for yourself.Table of ContentsIf you monetize a website with Ezoic, you will be known...…You may have seen the advertisements that are automatically placed into various sections on many of the pages of this website.The team at Ezoic handles all that for me, allowing me to focus on writing about the things that I care about and sharing what I’ve learnt about coding with other Go developers.So I want to discuss the frankly impressive service provided by Ezoic — and how it could help you boost advertising revenue for any websites you run — before giving you the opportunity to join the ad network for yourself.Table of ContentsIf you monetize a website with Ezoic, you will be known...WW…

Most programs will need to emit some kind of output if they’re going to be useful to the people using them.So today we will look at the various ways to print content to the console in Go, focusing on four related functions in particular.Table of ContentsThe Go standard library’s functions for printing to the console that we will look at are all contained within the "fmt" package.The package name "fmt" is short for the word “format”, since the functions handle the presentation of output as well as actually emitting it to the console.The simplest function that can be used to emit output to...…Most programs will need to emit some kind of output if they’re going to be useful to the people using them.So today we will look at the various ways to print content to the console in Go, focusing on four related functions in particular.Table of ContentsThe Go standard library’s functions for printing to the console that we will look at are all contained within the "fmt" package.The package name "fmt" is short for the word “format”, since the functions handle the presentation of output as well as actually emitting it to the console.The simplest function that can be used to emit output to...WW…

It may be surprising to learn that two Go structs can contain exactly the same fields and yet one can require more — or less — memory than the other.Since we generally want to ensure that we never use more memory than required, we are going to look at a technique called structure packing and how it can be applied to the Go programming language.Table of ContentsLet’s look at the following example code, which just defines two custom types, one of which is a struct containing three fields:package maintype City uint8const (NewYork City = iotaLondonParisMumbai)type Person struct...…It may be surprising to learn that two Go structs can contain exactly the same fields and yet one can require more — or less — memory than the other.Since we generally want to ensure that we never use more memory than required, we are going to look at a technique called structure packing and how it can be applied to the Go programming language.Table of ContentsLet’s look at the following example code, which just defines two custom types, one of which is a struct containing three fields:package maintype City uint8const (NewYork City = iotaLondonParisMumbai)type Person struct...WW…

We spend a lot of time on this blog thinking about things like syntax and code style, or building example projects, but today I want to zoom out and look at Go programming from a bigger perspective.Since Go is one of the most popular languages being used in GitHub repositories, I thought it would be interesting to explore in this post how some major companies and global corporations have used the Go programming language in their work.Table of ContentsThe Go programming language is completely open-source, but the language has its origins at Google, so it’s hardly surprising that the company...…We spend a lot of time on this blog thinking about things like syntax and code style, or building example projects, but today I want to zoom out and look at Go programming from a bigger perspective.Since Go is one of the most popular languages being used in GitHub repositories, I thought it would be interesting to explore in this post how some major companies and global corporations have used the Go programming language in their work.Table of ContentsThe Go programming language is completely open-source, but the language has its origins at Google, so it’s hardly surprising that the company...WW…

Testing should be considered an essential part of the software-development process, because it helps to ensure that our code works as expected when handling a wide range of reasonable values as input.So today we are going to look at how to write tests in Go, using the built-in syntax, and how to run the tests — as well as how to use other testing frameworks.Table of ContentsThe Go programming language has built-in support for unit testing, which makes it extremely easy to write and run tests for our code.The central idea behind unit testing is that code can be broken down into small...…Testing should be considered an essential part of the software-development process, because it helps to ensure that our code works as expected when handling a wide range of reasonable values as input.So today we are going to look at how to write tests in Go, using the built-in syntax, and how to run the tests — as well as how to use other testing frameworks.Table of ContentsThe Go programming language has built-in support for unit testing, which makes it extremely easy to write and run tests for our code.The central idea behind unit testing is that code can be broken down into small...WW…

Skip to contentHomeEntertainmentEvening show Oct. 14 and matinee Oct. 15 at North Delta Centre for the Arts to close national tourJames SmithA play that blends a rock concert with a tense mystery about sex trafficking in B.C. is coming to North Delta for two shows next week.Love Bomb, an award-winning original drama from Vancouver-based Shameless Hussy Productions, tells the story of Lillian, a mother searching for her missing daughter, and up-and-coming singer/songwriter Justine, whose music may hold the answers Lillian is looking for.The play is set at a bar in Prince George, where...…Skip to contentHomeEntertainmentEvening show Oct. 14 and matinee Oct. 15 at North Delta Centre for the Arts to close national tourJames SmithA play that blends a rock concert with a tense mystery about sex trafficking in B.C. is coming to North Delta for two shows next week.Love Bomb, an award-winning original drama from Vancouver-based Shameless Hussy Productions, tells the story of Lillian, a mother searching for her missing daughter, and up-and-coming singer/songwriter Justine, whose music may hold the answers Lillian is looking for.The play is set at a bar in Prince George, where...WW…