Long Coding Nights, ShrinkWrap, Arquillian and Testing

An airhacks.fm conversation with Andrew Lee Rubinger (@alrubinger)
about: GW-BASIC to reprogram a classic piece of music with the
sound command, playing games in a spreadsheet of lotus 1-2-3, CDs
or MP3s, the undeclared student, studying music production in New
York, excited about the the intentionally difficult programming
class in Massachusetts, learning Java in early 2000's, discovering
Java servers, JBoss 2x and Java EE is the coolest thing,
programming Monte Carlo simulations to pay for a flight, becoming a
global publisher with the web, chatting over speaking, self-study
addiction, long coding nights, a music streaming client with Java
EE backend, building an educational, grade online tracking system,
JBoss was free and it didn't suck, contributing patches to EJB
container, a hard job interview at JBoss, creating the ShrinkWrap
library, creating Arquillian, Arquillian's strength are integration
and system tests with the ease of unit tests, with ShrinkWrap you
can provide multiple deployments, the use cases for grey box tests,
testing transactions is tricky, starting the DevNation conference,
from application servers to kubernetes, containers and clouds,
reasonable Java EE 6 applications should work in the clouds without
any major modifications, 5mins from nothing to the first DB access,
the time to "hello, world", from configuring everything to
convention over configuration

Andrew Lee Rubinger on twitter: @alrubinger, linkedin and github