From Punched Cards to Java 11

An airhacks.fm conversation with Glenn Holmer (@gholmer) about:
astrology, TRS-80, Radio Shack, learning Basic, RPG and COBOL in 8
month, working for weyco group incorporated, learning assembly with
core dumps, blanks instead of zeros, enjoying modern Cobol, running
warehouse software on Novell Netware, starting with Java 1.1 in
1997, anonymous inner classes and JDBC were introduced with Java
1.1, AS 400 support for Java was excellent, Java and NDS, running
Applets in a browser, HotJava the browser in Java, icefaces and
ICEBrowser, creating a web app with Java servlets, starting with
Tomcat, switching to Glassfish, starting with plain editors, then
NetBeans, Programmers Paradise, CodeWarrior metrowerks, forte for
java IDE, becoming the very first Java programmer, the ultrasonic
box scanner, migrating from GlassFish to Payara, writing millions
lines of code with a team of five, remembering jEdit

Glenn Holmer on twitter: @gholmer