The Lightguard and the Quarkus Cookbook

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jason Porter (@lightguardjp)
about: From old 8086 in the late 80-ties, to a Pentium, old
GW-BASIC games like snake and gorillas, finding game source by
accident, learning Java in 21 days - with a book, fascination with
Java Applets, learning C++ at middle school, writing C code with
Metrowerks CodeWarrior, learning pointers with 14, building OCR in
C at high school, Pearl and PHP before Neumont University,
contributing to FlySpray the bugtracker, building inventory
application with C# and WinForms, building a scrapbook with
full-text search in 10 weeks, accessing lucene from C#, first Java
project for the State of Utah with JBoss Portal, a JDBC wrapper
around LDAP, building a client library to wrap SOAP, curiosity
about Java EE 5, creating student portfolios with Java EE 5, EJB 3,
JSF and GlassFish, commercial support was available from Sun
Microsystems for Glassfish, there was a lag between JBoss and
WildFly versions, working with ATG dynamo for oc tanner,
accelerating ETL and data validation with Java EE 5 and JMS,
increasing performance with JBoss from a day to one and half hour,
joining the Seam Team at RedHat, Seam Solder became Apache Delta
Spike, DeltaSpike became the groundwork for e.g. MicroProfile
Config, Injection, Outjection and Bijection, from Java to Ruby,
from Ruby to Drupal, form Drupal back to Java and Quarkus, asciidoc
is like markdown, but better, contributing to Quarkus, joining
forces with Alex Soto for Quarkus Cookbook, Kubernetes operators
with Quarkus, why lightguard (@lightguardjp)?,

Jason Porter on twitter: @lightguardjp and linkedin