An airhacks.fm conversation with Shai Almog (@debugagent) about:

Sinclair spectrum and VIC 20,

moving to Apple 2,

programming the first game,

learning assembly and Turbo Pascal,

first programming job with 17,

using OS/2 for fun,

working for Paradox,

enjoying BeOS,

apple wanted to buy BeOS before it bought NeXT,

working for AI company,

working on heuristic scheduling,

writing articles for IDM about Java 1.1,

the attraction to CORBA,

OS2 and DSOM,

MarshalledObject in Java,

the great SGI machines,

pretending to be a fighter pilot,

developing in a burning building,

USAF Video Game,

starting a Java consulting company in 1999,

building a Palm Pilot application for waiters,

Sun’s Spotless VM comes with support for Solaris and Windows,

porting Spotless VM to Linux,

working for Sun Israel Development Center