I’m finally moving up from working behind the scenes to actually doing a (short) presentation for the LJC. I’m going to be giving a lightning talk on Wednesday at the AWS Elastic Beanstalk event, on the JCP – what it is and what our election to the executive committee means. Ben and Martin’s post gives … Read more
I’m honoured to now be listed on three aggregated blog feeds: The new and somewhat embryonic blogs.lmax.com. The London Java Community Aggrity. ThoughtWorks Alumni, along with a whole host of distinguished names. The pressure’s on to try and write useful stuff. Oh OK, I’ll settle for "entertaining".
I have been struggling with .NET. Actually, I have been fighting pitched battles with it.
All I want to do is take our existing Java client example code and write an equivalent in C#. Easy, right?
Turns out writing the actual C# is relatively straightforward. Putting to one side the question of writing optimal code (these are very basic samples after all), to get the examples to compile and run was a simple process:
As an associate member of the London Java Community (LJC), I’m very pleased with the news that we won an Open seat on the Java SE/EE executive committee. The results show that we got an astonishing 47.5% of the vote – if an MP got voted in with that percentage the newspapers would probably be … Read more