From Competitive Gaming to Java EE API Mavenization

An airhacks.fm conversation with Romain Grecourt (@rgrecourt)
about: started with Apple 2 Computer at the age of 8, starting
games from command line, writing HTML on Pentium 90, the blink and
marquee tags, creating a website with JavaScript and HTML and
Netscape Composer, icefaces and icebrowser written in Java, from
animated GIFs to Macromedia Flash, creating a website for a hockey
club in Flash, computer parts for website creation, creating
computers from parts, sports with Counter-Strike, blocking the
telephone line with a modem, finding opponents on QuakeNet IRC,
becoming an admin on a channel with a bot, starting with IRC
scripting, winning Counter-Strike tournaments, writing a "bouncer"
bot, installing a dedicated Half-Life server on mandriva linux,
redoing the Counter-Strike menu in Flash for the team website,
Programmable logic controller (PLC) based automation assignment,
the desire for 100 FPS, creating a selective cat trap door with
magnets and using SolidWorks, C programming to control a disk drive
motor, starting at the wrong college, switching to software
engineering college, starting with "french" C++ then switching to
the real thing, working with wireshark and assembler, C, C++,
Linux, Emacs over Java, reading stack traces is great, starting a
web services projects with Java and Axis 2, starting with Maven 1,
scripting a tree shaking functionality for JAR creation with make,
starting at Serli to implement the Java EE security spec at Jonas
Application Server, working with GlassFish to support application
versioning, working with NetBeans, Maven 2 and Subversion, becoming
a Maven and NetBeans fanboy, Serli worked with Alexis MP (#23 From
GlassFish to Java in Google Cloud) GlassFish application versioning
was announced at JavaONE, starting at Oracle at GlassFish team in
Prague, implementing OSGi and HK2, specialising at GlassFish Maven
3 builds, packaging the Java EE API jars, Java EE 6 API without the
implementation, introducing conventions for Java EE packaging,

Romain Grecourt on twitter: @rgrecourt