Lord of the Jars

airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

An airhacks.fm conversation with Alex Soto (@alexsotob) about:

playing desperado on spectrum, peek, poke and rem with basic, implementing a clock and drawing a line, curiosity and programming, fascination with communication, sending emails to unknown people, Netscape Composer and Microsoft Frontpage, Netscape Mail Client, the "view code" button, Netscape Mail became Mozilla's Thunderbird, adding interactivity to HTML pages with JavaScript, coding number guess game with JavaScript, the friend declaration in C++, starting with Java 1.2 and Swing, Sun Java Workshop and Java Studio Workshop, using Servlets on Orion Application Server as backend for HTML forms, using Wicket web framework, doubled income for experienced developer, building portals with JBoss 3.0, Ant and XDoclet, VoIP and Session Initiation Protocol SIP project with JBoss in 2002, Bean Managed (BMP) and Container Managed Persistence (CMP), nice BMP and CMP - comes for free, installing JDK 1.3.1 (Kestrel), controlling medical robots with Java, IoT in 2005, moving physical machines with Java, loosing focus after 8 years, building electronic voting systems, Java EE 5 came with productivity boost, TomEE booted in 1 second, introducing Java EE as "The New Thing", advocating Java EE on conferences, promoting Java EE as productivity and speed optimisation, Kohsuke Kawaguchi the creator of Hudson, starting at CloudBees with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Kohsuke started launchable, working with Apache Mesos, starting to work with Arquillian, becoming an Arquililan committer, speaking at Devoxx, ping from Aslak Knutsen, starting at the dream company - RedHat, the Monday message from Aslak, working with fabric8,

Alex Soto on twitter: @alexsotob, Alex's blog: www.lordofthejars.com and Alex on GitHub