If You Get A Book, You Have To Start Reading

An airhacks.fm conversation with Max Rydahl Andersen (@maxandersen)
about: C 64, green screens, Basic, GoTo, Rallye, animated sprites,
peek and pokes, snake game's source code, Summer Olympics was a
joystick destroyer, Word Perfect on Commodore, assembler and
protective demo scene on Commodore Amiga, access to information was
a battle, the Turbo Pascal Book about object oriented programming,
fascination with databases, building an artwork management for a
gallery app in MS Access, building a WYSIWYG tool in Visual Basic,
working as tutor at school, installing SmallTalk VisualAge, great
visual Delphi, Java was more open than Delphi was, medfork and the
trifork application server, writing an electronic medical journal,
Trifork supported hot reload, JAOO became GOTO, writing dependency
management system with Python on a Dell Laptop, emacs was the main
IDE, writing a Swing application which talks to trifork backend,
using Apache OJB, session sharing with Apache OJB, hibernate always
understood transactions, working with Christian Bauer and Gavin
King, writing the first version of hbm2ddl tool, extending
hibernate to support native queries, getting fixes for enterprise
software without paying, Gavin was hired by Marc Fleury, moving to
Switzerland and working for Sascha Labourey, RichFaces Exadel
acquisition, JBoss IDE became JBoss Tools, what became JBoss
Studio, which became RedHat Studio, which became Code Ready,
frustration with Java 9, Go has some power, but doesn't have Java's
ecosystem, Go legalized formatting, Swing over SWT, Swing API is
awesome, SWT had nice native integration, JFace is more like Swing,
a successful opensource project has to accept patches fast, Eclipse
JDT is an amazing piece of technologies, Eclipse is great for
browsing big code bases, the memory is not a problem, the perceived
performance is, NetBeans and Eclipse have difference strategies,
Eclipse tries to understand everything, NetBeans don't, overuse of
OSGi, microservices and modules, start with a monolith first,
quarkus takes the good parts of Jakarta EE and MicroProfile and
further improves them, GraalVM native compilation is not the main
feature, tree-shaking with Quarkus, JBang - Java for scripting,
quarkus is hard to kill,

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