December 2018 – Hi, My Name is Ben

Covariant Method Return Types in Java

December 27, 2018 by Benjamen

Intro I was reading the other day while enjoying some quiet time post Christmas (AWS, Spring Boot, Java) and came across something that I didn’t know existed and wanted to share. I’m sure veteran Java programmers know this but coming from C#, I was totally unaware. What is a Covariant Return Type? Simply put, it …

From C# to Java

December 23, 2018 by Benjamen

I made a switch recently in my professional life. I’ve been doing some for of C# and Microsoft development since about 2005 with sprinklings in of Objective-C, Swift and JavaScript/Node.js but C# has always been my primary backend, get things done language. However, I recently took a new role back fully dedicated to Healthcare and …