Autocomplete engine in Go: let’s build it

By alediaferiaPosted on 6th January 20186th January 2018Cat Programming1 Comment

Some time ago I worked on a small autocomplete web service for fun and curiosity. Part of it consists pretty much of what I'm going to talk about in this post. We're gonna build a small completion suggester in Go. A couple of assumptions I'll have for this experiment are: we don't care about sub-word… Read More »

Gogoa – Cocoa bindings for Go

By alediaferiaPosted on 4th July 20156th January 2018Cat ProgrammingLeave a comment

I don’t actually know why but I was wondering how easy it is to integrate Cocoa with Go. Well [SPOILER] looks like it’s super easy! The first comfortable piece I encountered, actually, was Go 1.3 changelog where it states: Finally, the go command now supports packages that import Objective-C files (suffixed .m) through cgo. Since I’m now with… Read More »

A native iOS app with a Qt third-party library

By alediaferiaPosted on 18th December 20146th January 2018Cat Programming7 Comments

I'm wrapping up here pieces of information that I used to setup a working native iOS project taking advantage of a library I wrote mainly using Qt. The library I wrote has nothing to do with GUI, it just helps me dealing with connectivity, REST API interaction, file system access, compression... Also, the library was… Read More »

Workaround Windows Tray Area Item Preference

By alediaferiaPosted on 9th November 2014Cat ProgrammingLeave a comment

Introduction I'm not an experienced Windows developer. I had to make it clear :) Today I had the chance to implement kind of a nasty hack on Windows. I had to make my application tray icon always visibile, at least by default. I swear I honor user preference then. I know this is one of… Read More »