{"id":70,"date":"2014-11-23T20:37:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T01:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=70"},"modified":"2014-11-23T20:37:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T01:37:33","slug":"learning-a-new-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Learning a New Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going back and forth for awhile on learning either C# or Java. They&#8217;re pretty similar syntactically and there are plenty of opportunities with either language. I&#8217;ve chosen C# for two reasons.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The recent announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/2846283\/application-development\/microsoft-open-sources-net-server-side-cloud-stack.html\">C# will soon be cross-platform<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I was asked if I&#8217;d be interested in working on some InstallShield tasks for our installers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As for #1, I&#8217;m not holding my breath, but I hope the support and the community will come. As for #2, I can&#8217;t say no to getting relevant, transferable experience.<\/p>\n<p>So, in order to start learning C#, I&#8217;ve decided to re-write the Python application KillAllBindings that I shared (and then unshared) last week. I wrote this on my personal time on my own personal copy of Visual Studio. It&#8217;s done(-ish) and it works. I&#8217;ve tested it and I&#8217;m reasonably certain that it&#8217;d work for others. It&#8217;s not very well abstracted nor does it have any error handling, but it should do the job. I will likely use this application as base for continuing to learn C# in my personal time. Hopefully, I can add additional features (if needed) and get good error handling implemented.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put it up on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/chuckstaburnt\/KillAllBindings\">GitHub<\/a>\u00a0for the world to see. Don&#8217;t judge too hard, It&#8217;s my first foray into C#.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going back and forth for awhile on learning either C# or Java. They&#8217;re pretty similar syntactically and there are plenty of opportunities with either language. I&#8217;ve chosen C# for two reasons. The recent announcement that C# will soon be cross-platform. I was asked if I&#8217;d be interested in working on some InstallShield tasks <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/?p=70\">&hellip;&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasberndt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}