Joshua Bloch’s Builder Pattern in C#

Posted July 3, 2009 * Comments(5)

Having spent a lot of time programming in Java over the last two years, I’ve made heavy use of Joshua Bloch’s Java Builder pattern (also Effective Java Item 2).

Recently, I’ve started a fairly large project in C# 3.0. As it happens, there came a point where I wanted to use a pattern similar to Bloch’s Builder. However, as anyone who tries to use this pattern in C# will quickly find out, Bloch’s Builder doesn’t translate perfectly to C#.

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Consuming a J2EE Web Service with PHP SOAP

Posted March 5, 2009 * Comments(5)

I recently had to do some work for a company which involved using PHP to consume a J2EE-based WSDL web service. The project was fairly straightforward, involving only a one-way call to the web service, i.e. no result needed to be collected.

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Exploring Java and VB.Net Syntax, Part 1

Posted February 4, 2009 * Comments(2)

The syntax of a programming language is a large part of how a programmer interacts with a language. Being somewhat of a programming language enthusiast, I’m always curious about how different programming languages stack up syntactically.

Today, I’m going to take a look at an variety of programming tasks and show how they are done in both Java and VB.NET (the .NET 1.1 version). Since both these languages have differing feature sets, I’ll try to only use features that both the languages have, in order to compare them fairly. I know this might misrepresent the complexity of the languages, and I’m cool with that. The purpose of this post is merely to explore and discuss the syntax of each language.

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