SGI, NCSA Mosaic, Sun, Java, JSF, Java EE, Jakarta EE and Clouds

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ed Burns (@edburns) about: Ti 99
4a with speech synthesis, Secrets of the Rockstars Programmer book,
Apple 2c with word processing and laser mouse, Superman 2,
collecting half cents as rounding errors, War Games and Tron, the
Logo programming language with a turtle, enjoying playing trumpet,
marching band and a binary trumpet, The Nullpointers Band, Fourier
Transforms for music quantification at high school, just intonation
and the key changes, equal temperement on piano, retuning the
keyboard on the fly, applying at Sun Microsystems, Lighthouse
Design and Objectivec-C, working at Silicon Graphics and the nice
O2 workstation, working on NCSA Mosaic browser at NCSA, learning
Pascal and C++ at the university, working on Common Client
Interface on Mosaic Browser, inperson conference system, talent vs.
grit, grit over talent, floyd marinescu started the
theserverside.com, the Spyglas Browser, the SGI Cosmo and VRML, SGI
IRIX operating system, commodity vs. boutique fights at SGI,
joining Sun's Lighthouse Design group, building a Java-based
productivity suite, building a multi-dimensional spreadsheet:
quantrix, NextStep Appkits vs. Swing, the AOL Sun-Netscape
alliance, OJI - Open Java VM Interface the SPI for Applets, Project
Panama - the new JNI, the popularity of Struts was the motivation
for JSF, Craig McLanaham and Amy Fowler started to work on JSF, JSF
code name was moonwalk, Hans Muller and the Swing Application
Framework (JSR-296), the Java Community Process passion, IETF and
W3C are like JCP, "Innovation Happens Elsewhere" book, JSF and
Spring XML-based dependency injection, ATG dynamo jhtml, JSF 2.0
composite components, JSF was a hot technology with multiple
component implementations RichFaces, icefaces, PrettyFaces,
Liferay, PrimeFaces and MyFaces, the initial JSF target was
page-based corporate apps, the AJAX experience conference and Ben
Galbraith, Martin Marinschek from Irian, Josh Juneau and the famous
blog post, building a proprietary Java-based docker orchestration
framework on top of Apache Mesos at Oracle, Java EE on Azure,
riding the crest, Ed's journey from client to server to cloud

Ed Burns on twitter: @edburns