An airhacks.fm conversation with Sharat Chander (@Sharat_Chander) about:

Commodore VIC 20,

a Hello, World for the sister,

moving to C64 and Ti 99,

learning Basic, Visual Basic

and Pascal,

"the world is your oyster",

AR and VR,

3rd world economics,

episode with Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems,

Java - and the participation matters,

sherpas and teachers,

airhacks.tv and airhacks.fm podcast episode,

#50 The Jakarta EE / MicroProfile and WebStandards Startup with Matthias Reining,

#73 The "MDN First" Approach with Web Components with Matthias Reining,

People First, Technology Second,

working for Bell Atlantic,

phones as gateways to applications and solutions,

Bell, GTE and Nynex became Verizon,

attending the first JavaOne in 1996,

starting at Sun Microsystems at the NetBeans team,

switching to Java Studio Creator,

episode with #8 JVM Innovation with Graal with Jaroslav Tulach,

Sun's Project Rave,

Java Studio Creator moved back as Matisse to NetBeans,

Roman Strobl - the NetBeans evangelist,

the tasks of the JavaONE program chair,

John Gage and JavaONE keynotes,

the minute of silence for Steve Jobs at JavaONE keynote,

Oracle Developer Live and Java,

growing Java User Groups and Java Champions program,

the Product Manager for Java,

cool vs. constructive,

constructive approaches to innovation

JavaONE and the after dark party,

inside.java podcast,