Umm’ing and arrh’ing

We’re moving offices soon at work, in the process we’re having a serious clear out due to the reduced space we’ll have at the new premises. As a result I’ve picked up a couple of unwanted Java books. I never appreciated how similar OO PHP5 code is to Java, infact it looks like a complete rip off! I had also not appreciated how many OO concepts I’d become familiar with…

This of course got me thinking, I might stretch my programming legs and have a look at Java over the summer. I can’t see it being much of a leap from the PHP5 code I’ve been writing in my own time. There’s a few new things in there like inner classes, nested interfaces and threads but with the majority of the concepts I feel I’m already comfortable. Continued squabbles on the PHP internals list only encourage me to do this, who knows, there’s a whole lot more Java jobs out there (which are better paid too!).

This is a turn around from the time I spent over Christmas looking at C#