Maintainability or Deletion over Upgrade

An airhacks.fm conversation with Robert Brem (@bremrobert) about:
Windows 95 with 15 for gaming, Nascar watching Korean StarCraft
streams, writing the first Hello World in Visual Basic for Excel,
in programming you can retrying without breaking anything, in ABAP
everything had four letters, automating Excel merges with visual
mode "on", hiding ABAP skills, ABAP could strike back with:
Abular.js, Java 5 was released in September 2004, Generics were
introduced with Java SE 6, annotations with Java SE 5, Sun
Certified Programmer Certification was really hard, connecting WII
controller to ActionScript 3, developing games in ActionScript 3,
J2EE was too much, sustainable economics game as master thesis,
saving the state of the game by serializing the board, the HSR in
Rapperswil the beatiful place for lazy students, Peter Sommerlad
was a demanding teacher but introduced Jenkins and automation,
getting the color of the surface from satellites, the hosted GWT
was slow, Spring Implementation of EJB container - project
Pitchfork (now https://oss.oracle.com/projects/pitchfork/),
deleting over upgrade, dependencies are fun for green field
projects, the sequence of joy: GWT, ABAP and Eclipse RCP, the mensa
club, the most sophisticated loading screen ever, the
multi-dimensional Map (MapMap) solves all problems, automating
infrastructure with Vagrant, Ansible and Packer, www.confirm.ch,
all nails in the food has to be published in Switzerland, lit-html
is the only dependency in the frontend and only Jakarta EE in the
backend, sub MB ThinWARs and a few seconds deployment, building an
entire application on one day,

Robert Brem on twitter: @bremrobert