New IntelliJ Tricks I Learnt Part 2

Apparently, I’m all about Continuous Learning – after I wrote the last post about IntelliJ Tips, I carried on through my trawl of the documentation and, of course, discovered a load more things I didn’t know. And this is all just in the Quick Start section! So here’s the next batch (although once again I’m … Read more

New IntelliJ Tricks I Learnt Today

Day three of my brand new job – woohoo! One of my first tasks is checking the documentation of IntelliJ, since I’m already a “Power User”, to see if there’s stuff missing that someone like me might want to see. Firstly, a confession – I’m not sure I’ve actually read the IntelliJ documentation before. I … Read more

Why Java developers hate .NET

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?

Trisha's Guide to Converting Java to C

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:

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