airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien

An airhacks.fm conversation with Emmanuel Bernard ( @emmanuelbernard ) about: Amstrad PC 1512 , the first PC computer ever made by Amstrad, two floppies are better than a hard drive, deleting double dots, C/PM OS , BIOS as cheating detection, creating snake game in BASIC, playing with Turbo Pascal, from GO TOs over loops to procedures, objects, aspects to functional programming, exploring Mandrake...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Sebastien Blanc ( @sebi2706 ) about: Thomson MO5 , every school in France needs to have a computer, printing the name with BASIC, the REM sadness, making yellow boxes, programming Logo in French, writing "root" and "house" procedures, no procedures in BASIC, the ACSLogo for Mac OS X , Berkeley Logo (UCBLogo) , the Amstrad PC1512 , using AMOS programming language fo...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Matthias Reining ( @MatthiasReining ) about: Power Basic is not QBasic and was comparable with Turbo Pascal , game high score manipulation as programming motivation, C 64 was the first computer encounter, writing a "Jump and Run" game in Power Basic, Power Basic IDE as Christmas present, the menu bar fascination, using GW-Basic at high school, call by value vs. cal...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Pavel Pscheidl ( @PavelPscheidl ) about: Pentium 1 with 12, 75 MHz, first hello world with 17, Quake 3 friend as programming coach, starting with Java 1.6 at at the university of Hradec Kralove , second "hello world" with Operation Flashpoint , the third "hello world" was a Swing Java application as introduction to object oriented programming, introduction to enter...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Dimitris Andreadis ( @dandreadis ) about: Amstrad CPC 484 , but Commodore had better games, learning BASIC driven by lack of games, hacking game loaders, C is the favourite language, with C you have the full control, C is concise, ISO DEE, writing ISO network layers in Ireland, writing reactive code in 1994, beautiful C code, processing bibliographic data with DSLs...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Sebastian Daschner ( @sdaschner ) about: Proposal on Jakarta EE’s innovation & relationship to MicroProfile , using MicroProfile as an incubator, JCrete is not vacations, MicroProfile is production ready, MicroProfile Metrics , MicroProfile Fault Tolerance , MicroProfile OpenApi , MicroProfile OpenTracing the incubation process for Jakarta EE , applying what made J...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Amelia Eiras-Blevins ( @ameliaeiras ) about: physics and math studies, in Ecuador you have to choose your major earlier, changing from computer science to finance, without learning, everything becomes boring, the math never lies and is therefore simple, the formulas and understanding the "why", it is not about the frameworks, it is about the principles, choosing ca...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Jarek Ratajski ( @jarek000000 ) about: Starting programming immediately with C 64 , mysterious machines, touching the ZX spectrum once, amazing TV show about science Sonda , unofficial access to adults library, learning C64 basic with Atari ST manual, learning assembly because of: SYS 2064, GOTO and sisters, writing encryption software, writing the Snake game, writ...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gordon Hutchison ( @hutchig ) about: Playing chess with zx81 , huge computer scene in Glasgow, BBC micro then saving for Acron Electron -- the cheaper BBC Micro, programming text adventure games, Forth on RML 380 Z , Sun's OpenBoot was written in Forth, Dragon 32 , controlling the computer world with 13, programming colourful fractals, "do whatever you have permiss...

An airhacks.fm conversation with John Clingan ( @jclingan ) about: Using TRS 80 and owning a Commodore 64 , arcade 101 at high school, computers were special at Chicago's schools, TRS 80 basic, C 64 for Christmas, typing-in applications from Commodore 64 magazine, writing self-modifying code with assembly on Commodore 64, Peeks and Pokes in BASIC and sound chip, PC at college, Cameron Purdy ( #16...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Steve Millidge ( @l33tj4v4 ) about: 60-70% growth every year, customer base is growing quickly, 30 employees, great team with great vision, Payara is self-founded by commercial support fees, there are a lot of "traditional" applications in production, not every application needs Kubernetes, Payara clients are running their software on bare metal and on containerize...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ben Farell ( @bfarrellforever ) about: copying and pasting game programming logic from magazines into a TI 994a , the ugly purple people picker, accidentally buying Java books, boring C++ without visual elements, dangerous assembly classes, Macromedia Director in 1996, developing with Flash , suddenly in 2010 Flash lost its popularity , writing casual games for kid...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Mark Little ( @nmcl ) about: the 250 miles terminal connection, Commodore PET , battle ships on paper tapes, mocking the login screen on Commodore, reverse engineering Space Invaders , the lack of games in UK was a motivation for writing games, learning peek and pokes, Commodore engineering team wrote a book about machine code, Basic on BBC model B , Pascal and C o...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Gunnar Morling ( @gunnarmorling ) about: Eastern computers and Robotron KC 85 , CPU slicing, screensaver as source code, Hello World in Pascal with 14, University in Dresden, AMD and Java 1.2 with Forte for Java , starting at Saxonia Systems as consultant, having fun in a Java EE 5 course, the EJB 3 and Guice blog post , the effect of a link , Java EE 5, the "dinso...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Mark Struberg ( @struberg ) about: rubber-keyed ZX81 , C64 , Basic, tons of incorrect rows of hexcode, transitioning from Basic to assembly, games were an inspiration, 40mins to load the game, Turbo Copy for software refreshment, transitioning from software to solding transistors, flip-flops with 10 years, programming Logo with Atari ST , HTL in Austria, Pascal on...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Andrew Guibert ( @andrew_guibert ) about: the Java EE Testing survey and possible room for improvements, testing is too hard with severe consequences, reasonable projects are interested in delivering good software, large enterprises are more interested in statistics, testing is about increasing developer's confidence, confidence decreases with the length of time sp...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Markus Kett ( @MarkusKett ) about: C64 and sports games, Weiden is not in Bavarian Forest , soccer as motivation for programming, writing first programs in basic with 17, writing contacts management, PCs are boring machines, but good for business, Java is the best programming language, Pentium 1 was introduced at CEBIT in 1993, the dream about an own booth at CEBIT...

An airhacks.fm conversation with James Wilson ( @jgwilson42 ) about: the result of pressing the break button on a BBC computer , and ZX Spectrum , Space Invaders with Basic , extending minecraft with Java , accidental tester career, best interviewees got programmer jobs, hackers and testers, developers like the happy path, unit test coverage is useless without good asserts, is 80% code coverage a...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Andrew Schofield, Chief Architect, Event Streams at IBM about: 1982, Dragon 32 and Basic Programming with 12, starting with JDK 1.0, writing a JMS provider for WebSphere v6 , no ceremony JMS, Apache Kafka considered simple, why writing a Kafka application is harder than a JMS application, there is a big architectural difference between Kafka and JMS, or message que...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Stuart Douglas ( @stuartwdouglas ) about: starting with Visual Basic in high school, with the goal to build games, then quick transition to C++, creating Tetris from scratch in weeks in C++, building first commercial financial planning application with PHP, starting with Java 1.5 and annotations in 2007, Java is popular in Australia, building Seam applications with...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Andrew Guibert ( @andrew_guibert ) about: old IBM PCs and old school Legos, starting programming in elementary school to write video games, the market for enterprise software is better, than the market for video games, World of Warcraft is good for practicing team work, ice hockey, snowboarding and baseball, getting job at IBM by pitching Nintendo WII hacking, why...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Sebastian Daschner ( @DaschnerS ) about: being chief Enterprise Service Bus Officer at IBM (not true), Lead Java Advocate for Java at IBM (now true), Sebastian still likes Java EE, the definition of Serverless, there is no need for functions in serverless computing, a reference to episode with Bruno Borges " Jakarta EE / MicroProfile in the Clouds: Runtimes not Ser...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Simon Harrer ( @simonharrer ) about: Amstrad Laptop , first line of VB code was a commercial one, customers two desks away, Scheme is an excellent language to learn programming, Java is great - mainly because of the tool support, Eclipse was the first opensource IDE with decent refactoring support, Bamberg is the home of Schlenkerla , teaching is the best way to le...

An airhacks.fm conversation with Bruno Borges about: sudden death of remote EJBs caused by Java EE 5 and Web, servers as cloud, shared deployments in E10k , separation between infrastructure and business is boring, no rocket science, application servers and immutable infrastructure, frozen application servers in Docker layers, Docker modernized deployment model without modernizing Java EE, FatJar...

An  airhacks.fm conversation with Robert Scholte ( @rfscholte ) and Sebastian Daschner ( @DaschnerS ) about: Convention over Configuration and Maven, strategies for the "default", dependency versions to "apache" maven plugins, maven default behaviours, configuration hierarchies, Maven and CI/CD like Jenkins, command line options, pom elements, pom properties, the Java EE-stic approach to Maven , u...