An airhacks.fm conversation with Karl Heinz Marbaise (@khmarbaise) about:

PET 2001 was the first computer,

enjoying programming at school,

writing Basic and assembly code on Commodore CBM 4000,

writing software for Commodore 1 PCB,

finally getting a Commodore 64,

programming extruder mesh machines,

writing floating point libraries on Intel 8080,

the connection between computers and math,

starting with Turbo Pascal, C and C++ and Turbo C,

studying part time, working full time,

tracking cars with GPS in Delphi,

implementing a new language in lex, yacc and bison,

banks were using the OS/2 Warp operating system,

working with Visual Basic,

starting with Java 1.4 in 2004,

working with PHP and MySQL,

SOAP with PHP,

developing an internal sourceforge,

write simple code and enjoy JVM performance,

starting with Ant then migrate to Maven 2,

Apache Jelly the executable XML,

Convention over Configuration with Maven,

Apache Continuum, AnthillPro and CruiseControl,

becoming a Maven committer,

Apache Axis 2,

using Hudson for CI/CD,

contributing to open source at Deutsche Boerse,

working with Robert Scholte, airhacks.fm episode with Robert: "#28 More Conventions with Maven.next",

working as DevOps engineer,