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Marko Milojevic
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Marko Milojevic
Software engineer and architect. Golang and LLM enthusiast. Awful chess player, gym rat, harmonica newbie and cat lover.
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This Cookie Policy explains how Ompluscator’s Blog (“Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://www.ompluscator.com (“Website”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

In some cases we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.

What are cookies?
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Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Ompluscator’s Blog) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?
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We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

How can I control cookies?
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You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.

The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner and on our website. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.

The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit):

Analytics and customization cookies
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These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.

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Advertising cookies:
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These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.

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Unclassified cookies:
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These are cookies that have not yet been categorized. We are in the process of classifying these cookies with the help of their providers.

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How can I control cookies on my browser?
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As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:

  1. Chrome
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In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:

  1. Digital Advertising Alliance
  2. Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada
  3. European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
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Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects?
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Websites may also use so-called “Flash Cookies” (also known as Local Shared Objects or “LSOs”) to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention, and for other site operations.

If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies (referred to “information” on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).

Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content.

Do you serve targeted advertising?
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Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.

How often will you update this Cookie Policy? #

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where can I get further information?
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If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at marko.milojevic@ompluscator.com.

This cookie policy was created using Termly’s Cookie Consent Manager.

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Privacy Policy

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This privacy notice for Ompluscator’s Blog ("we," “us,” or “our”), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your information when you use our services ("Services"), such as when you: Visit our website at https://blog.ompluscator.com, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events Questions or concerns? # Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at marko.milojevic@ompluscator.com. Summary of key points # This summary provides key points from our privacy notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our table of contents_ below to find the section you are looking for._ What personal information do we process? # When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. Learn more about personal information you disclose to us. Do we process any sensitive personal information? # We do not process sensitive personal information. Do we receive any information from third parties? # We do not receive any information from third parties. How do we process your information? # We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so. Learn more about how we process your information. In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information? # We may share information in specific situations and with specific third parties. Learn more about when and with whom we share your personal information.

Terms and Conditions

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Agreement to our legal terms # We are Ompluscator’s Blog ("Company," “we,” “us,” “our”). We operate , as well as any other related products and services that refer or link to these legal terms (the “Legal Terms”) (collectively, the “Services”). You can contact us by email at Ompluscator’s Blog or by mail to Ompluscator’s Blog, Ompluscator’s Blog, Ompluscator’s Blog. These Legal Terms constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("you"), and Ompluscator’s Blog, concerning your access to and use of the Services. You agree that by accessing the Services, you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Legal Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SERVICES AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY. Supplemental terms and conditions or documents that may be posted on the Services from time to time are hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Legal Terms at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last updated” date of these Legal Terms, and you waive any right to receive specific notice of each such change. It is your responsibility to periodically review these Legal Terms to stay informed of updates. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Legal Terms by your continued use of the Services after the date such revised Legal Terms are posted. We recommend that you print a copy of these Legal Terms for your records. Table of contents # 1. Our services 2. Intellectual property rights 3. User representations 4. Prohibited activities 5. User generated contributions 6. Contribution license 7. Services management 8. Term and termination 9. Modifications and interruptions 10. Governing law 11. Dispute resolution 12. Corrections 13. Disclaimer 14. Limitations of liability 15. Indemnification 16. User data 17. Electronic communications, transactions, and signatures 18. Miscellaneous 19. Contact us 1. Our services # The information provided when using the Services is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

Golang Tutorial: Generics with Gorm

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After months and years of talking, trying things out, and testing, we’ve finally reached a big moment in our favorite programming language. The new Golang version, 1.18, is here. We knew it would bring significant changes to Go’s codebase, even before Generics was officially released. For a long time, when we wanted to make our code more general and abstract, we used code generators in Go. Learning what the “Go way” of doing things was challenging for many of us, but it also led to many breakthroughs. It was worth the effort. Now, there are new possibilities on the horizon. Many new packages have emerged, giving us ideas on how we can improve the Go ecosystem with reusable code that makes life easier for all of us. This inspiration led me to create a small proof of concept using the Gorm library. Now, let’s take a look at it. Source code # When I wrote this article, it relied on a GitHub Repository. The code served as a Go library proof of concept, with my intention to continue working on it. However, it was not yet suitable for production use, and I had no plans to offer production support at that time. You can find the current features by following the link, and below, there is a smaller sample snippet. Example Usage package main import ( "github.com/ompluscator/gorm-generics" // some imports ) // Product is a domain entity type Product struct { // some fields } // ProductGorm is DTO used to map Product entity to database type ProductGorm struct { // some fields } // ToEntity respects the gorm_generics.GormModel interface func (g ProductGorm) ToEntity() Product { return Product{ // some fields } } // FromEntity respects the gorm_generics.GormModel interface func (g ProductGorm) FromEntity(product Product) interface{} { return ProductGorm{ // some fields } } func main() { db, err := gorm.Open(/* DB connection string */) // handle error err = db.AutoMigrate(ProductGorm{}) // handle error // initialize a new Repository with by providing // GORM model and Entity as type repository := gorm_generics.NewRepository[ProductGorm, Product](db) ctx := context.Background() // create new Entity product := Product{ // some fields } // send new Entity to Repository for storing err = repository.Insert(ctx, &product) // handle error fmt.Println(product) // Out: // {1 product1 100 true} single, err := repository.FindByID(ctx, product.ID) // handle error fmt.Println(single) // Out: // {1 product1 100 true} } Why have I picked ORM for PoC? # Coming from a background in software development with traditional object-oriented programming languages like Java, C#, and PHP, one of the first things I did was search Google for a suitable ORM for Golang. Please forgive my inexperience at the time, but that’s what I was expecting. It’s not that I can’t work without an ORM. It’s just that I don’t particularly like how raw MySQL queries appear in the code. All that string concatenation looks messy to me. On the other hand, I always prefer to dive right into writing business logic, with minimal time spent thinking about the underlying data storage. Sometimes, during the implementation, I change my mind and switch to different types of storage. That’s where ORMs come in handy.