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Ultimate Go Notebook

Billy Phelan, small-time bookie, pool hustler, and poker player becomes an unlikely go-between in the 1938 kidnapping of an Albany political boss's son

Billy Phelan's Greatest Game

Brian Ketelsen

Erik St. Martin

Summary Go in Action introduces the Go language, guiding you from inquisitive developer to Go guru. The book begins by introducing the unique features and concepts of Go. Then, you'll get hands-on experience writing real-world applications including websites and network servers, as well as techniques to manipulate and convert data at speeds that will make your friends jealous. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Application development can be tricky enough even when you aren't dealing with complex systems programming problems like web-scale concurrency and real-time performance. While it's possible to solve these common issues with additional tools and frameworks, Go handles them right out of the box, making for a more natural and productive coding experience. Developed at Google, Go powers nimble startups as well as big enterprises—companies that rely on high-performing services in their infrastructure. About the Book Go in Action is for any intermediate-level developer who has experience with other programming languages and wants a jump-start in learning Go or a more thorough understanding of the language and its internals. This book provides an intensive, comprehensive, and idiomatic view of Go. It focuses on the specification and implementation of the language, including topics like language syntax, Go's type system, concurrency, channels, and testing. What's Inside Language specification and implementation Go's type system Internals of Go's data structures Testing and benchmarking About the Reader This book assumes you're a working developer proficient with another language like Java, Ruby, Python, C#, or C++. About the Authors William Kennedy is a seasoned software developer and author of the blog GoingGo.Net. Brian Ketelsen and Erik St. Martin are the organizers of GopherCon and coauthors of the Go-based Skynet framework. Table of Contents Introducing Go Go quick-start Packaging and tooling Arrays, slices, and maps Go's type system Concurrency Concurrency patterns Standard library Testing and benchmarking

Go in Action

A Novel

Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes

Very Old Bones (Contemporary American Fiction)

In 1938, Francis Phelan, a murderer, is reduced to flop houses and hobo jungles and returns to a depressed Albany, where--as a gravedigger--he shuffles his rag tag way to survival

In the sixth novel of the author's Albany Cycle, the lives of high-born Katrina Taylor and her Irish-American playwright husband are shaped by a 1908 murder-suicide in a Manhattan hotel room. Reprint. Tour.

The Flaming Corsage

Jack «Legs» Diamond è un marito amorevole, un seduttore, un grande ballerino, un bravo cattolico, l'amante più appassionato che si possa desiderare. Jack «Legs» Diamond è sfuggito a un rapimento tagliandosi un pezzo di braccio, è stato colpito da dodici proiettili in quattro diverse imboscate, una volta ha deviato le pallottole schermandosi con un cuscino, può parlare con gli uccelli e con i cani. Legs è un torturatore, è un gangster spietato, è solo un onesto contrabbandiere che dà da bere alle gole riarse dal Proibizionismo, è un eroe del popolo. Legs Diamond è un santo, Legs Diamond è solo un mito. Intriso di una malinconia struggente, riuscendo nel miracolo di restare fedele sia ai fatti sia a quel mito, Legs è il ritratto impossibile di un uomo la cui biografia è stata fin dall'inizio indistinguibile dalla leggenda, il cui volto era sulle prime pagine di tutti i giornali e le cui gesta erano offuscate dal fumo che avvolge i bar clandestini e il mondo sotterraneo della malavita: gli omicidi, la scalata al potere, le due gloriose prime attrici della sua vita, Alice e Kiki, la moglie inseparabile e l'amante sfavillante. Primo capitolo dell'osannata «trilogia di Albany» che valse a William Kennedy il Premio Pulitzer, Legs appartiene a pieno diritto alle vette più alte della narrativa americana: sullo sfondo di un'era fatta in egual misura di innocenza e corruzione, il superbo, ammaliante, ritratto di un uomo così grande che perfino i nemici ne erano segretamente sedotti, così vivo da non riuscire lui stesso a credere, quando infine il proiettile letale lo raggiunge, alla propria morte.

Legs

Marian Montagnino

Evolve the humble CLI using Go and unleash the next generation of powerful, flexible, and empathy-driven interfaces Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Discover how Go enables the development of elegant and intuitive CLIs Explore a range of CLI development aspects and pick up a vast array of best practices Create engaging and user-friendly interfaces and learn how to distribute them Book Description Although graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are intuitive and user-friendly, nothing beats a command-line interface (CLI) when it comes to productivity. Many organizations settle for a GUI without searching for alternatives that offer better accessibility and functionality. If this describes your organization, then pick up this book and get them to rethink that decision. Building Modern CLI Applications in Go will help you achieve an interface that rivals a GUI in elegance yet surpasses it in high-performance execution. Through its practical, step-by-step approach, you'll learn everything you need to harness the power and simplicity of the Go language to build CLI applications that revolutionize the way you work. After a primer on CLI standards and Go, you'll be launched into tool design and proper framework use for true development proficiency. The book then moves on to all things CLI, helping you master everything from arguments and flags to errors and API calls. Later, you'll dive into the nuances of empathic development so that you can ensure the best UX possible, before you finish up with build tags, cross-compilation, and container-based distribution. By the end of this UX book, you'll be fully equipped to take the performance and flexibility of your organization's applications to the next level. What you will learn Master the Go code structure, testing, and other essentials Add a colorful dashboard to your CLI using engaging ASCII banners Use Cobra, Viper, and other frameworks to give your CLI an edge Handle inputs, API commands, errors, and timeouts like a pro Target builds for specific platforms the right way using build tags Build with empathy, using easy bug submission and traceback Containerize, distribute, and publish your CLIs quickly and easily Who this book is for This book is for beginner- and intermediate-level Golang developers who take an interest in developing CLIs and enjoy learning by doing. You'll need an understanding of basic Golang programming concepts, but will require no prior knowledge of CLI design and development. This book helps you join a community of CLI developers and distribute within the popular Homebrew package management tool.

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Building Modern CLI Applications in Go

Set during the sixteenth century, The Siege of Antwerp tells the story of a group of rebels who attempt to overthrow the Spanish rulers of the city. With its vivid characters and dramatic plot, this historical play is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Europe or the art of drama. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Siege of Antwerp, an Historical Play [In Verse]

""With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.""

The Plan of Union

Ironweed Floor Display

In a Manhattan hotel room, the "Love Nest Killings of 1908" take place. But the mystery of who killed whom, and why, does not unravel until we explore the lives of Katrina Taylor and Edward Daughtery. He is a first-generation Irish American and a successful playwright. She is a high-born Protestant, a beautiful seductive woman with complex attitudes towards life. Their marriage is a passionate one, but a cataclysmic hotel fire changes it into something else altogether. Moving back and forth between the 1880s and 1912, The Flaming Corsagefollows Katrina and Edward as other lives impact upon theirs-their socially opposed families; Edward's flirtatious actress paramour, Melissa Spencer; the physician Giles Fitzroy, and his wife; and Edward's friend, the cynical journalist Thomas Maginn. The Flaming Corsageevocatively portrays through the lens of Albany's robust Irishtown and English-Dutch aristocracy the seething, contradictory impulses of our humanity, lusts and furies that know no bounds of time or place.

Legsinaugurated William Kennedy's brilliant cycle of novels (including Billy Phelan's Greatest Gameand Ironweed) set in Albany, New York. True to both life and myth, Legsbrilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of the legendary gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond, who was finally murdered in Albany. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond's attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watch as Legs and his showgirl mistress, Kiki Roberts, blaze their gaudy trail across the tabloid pages of the 1920s and 1930s. Diamond and his gangster entourage emerge as emblematic figures from an era of American innocence-and corruption.

Francis Phelan is, alongside 'Legs' Diamond, William Kennedy's greatest character. Ex-ball player, latterly a bum, lush and hardcase, he is central to these three Albany novels: father to the pool shark Billy who struggles with his legacy of violence and self-glorification (BILLY PHELAN'S GREATEST GAME); brother to artist Peter whose paintings explore the dark corners of his family history, including Francis's life (VERY OLD BONES); and antihero of Pulitzer Prize winning IRONWEED, in which Phelan returns to Albany at the end of the Depression, roaming the familiar streets with his hobo pal Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and present.

The Albany Cycle

The story of two 'street bums' trying to survive in the depression of 1938.

A Screenplay Adapted from His Novel

A Screenplay

This tale, set during the Depression, tells about Francis Phelan and other inhabitants of skid row in Albany, New York. Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of William Kennedy's three Albany-based novels. Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally - and fatally - dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present. Chronicles the final wanderings of a one-time ballplayer turned down-and-out murderer.

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