the corner office

I almost forgot I had a blog! We're still keeping busy being New Parents, and Leo, apart from fairly minor periods of disbuggerability, is still positively angelic.

I'm still doing some Eclipse tinkering. I had noble intentions of blogging about what I'm doing, as I do it, but progress is fairly slow, and there's very little of interest to blog about. As with anything new, I'm finding it too easy to get sidetracked by minor issues and niggles, instead of focusing on cranking out something useful and getting as broad a swathe of stuff into my brain as possible.

Speaking of which, I had the opportunity recently to do some work with C# and .Net. It was an interesting diversion. I have to admit that C# ain't bad, ain't bad indeed. In some of the few places where it diverges from Java, I found myself liking the way C# does things. The one thing which kills me though, is the Windows convention of SentenceCase method names. blah.doFoo() versus blah.DoFoo()? The latter just looks plain wrong!

Language differences aside, I also found that my experiences with Visual Studio and C# were far more positive than my Visual Studio and C++ experiences have been. Still not as powerful as Eclipse, though. And as nice as the language might be, I still have no desire to hop onto the Microsoft dev treadmill. If I ever feel like a change from Java, I guess there's always Mono!