Below is a list of packages we use for various projects. Awesome Go is a great list, but it includes a lot of options. Below are the packages we have standardized on in the Cyber & Information Security Research Group (CISR) at ORNL.

This is a list of resources for getting started with the go programming language.

Many corporate firewalls blocks the git protocol, causing tools like bower to fail without jumping through some hoops. But pretty much every firewall allows web traffic through, so you can always use https if your tools know about it. The solution is to tell git to always use https instead of git by running the following command:

Vagrant is a tool to create portable, sharable development and testing environments. It is used to build, provision, and configure a virtual machine (by default, VirtualBox). Here we will configure Vagrant with nodejs and redis. Chef and berkshelf are used for provisioning.

There are loads of HTML5/CSS/JavaScript presentation frameworks out there. I had seen a couple of these in action and was kind of impressed. While Keynote is not as bad as PowerPoint, they both force you to think about design and content simultaneously. Because the design and layout is right in front of you, it can be hard to focus just on content, and I often find myself tweaking design when I should be thinking about content. So that led me to think, hey, wouldnt it be great if I could create my presentations with markdown or something similar?