How Apache Roller Happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Dave Johnson (@snoopdave) about:
PDP-8 with a paper tape reader, airhacks.tv questions and answers,
TRS-80, playing asteroids, asteroids, Defender and Battlezone were
based on vector graphics, learning Pascal and C, Data General
Eclipse MV/8000, Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
(GRASS GIS), working for University of Kingston, working on
jfactory for Rouge Wave, HAHT Software, The Soul of a New Machine,
distributed Visual Basic application server, using xdoclet to
generate EJB, using castor for persistence, Apache Roller started
as sample application, Sun hires dave, working on Lotus Notes
social, starting at wayin, Roller supports Pingback, Lotus is using
roller, using Rightscale to deploy Java software to AWS, using
Jenkins and CloudFormation, episode with Scott McNealy "#19 SUN,
JavaSoft, Java, Oracle", Roller uses Apache Velocity, working on
RSS parser Rome, switching from MongoDB to Apache Cassandra,
UserGrid data store, Oracle acquires apiary , starting at
CloudBees, episode with Kohsuke Kawaguchi "#143 How Hudson and
Jenkins happened", starting at Apollo, several thousand blogs on
roller

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