An airhacks.fm conversation with Victor Orozco (@tuxtor) about:

Cyrix 486 computer,

disassembling Prehistorik 2 game,

enjoying Dangerous Dave,

starting programming in FoxPro,

joining programming bootcamps,

learning Visual Basic 6,

starting to study Computer Science with the age of 16,

studying in Guatemala City,

starting to learn Java in 2005,

from .net to Java,

Sun Certified Programmer certification,

human rights application with Apache Struts on Sun Java Application Server,

getting the NetBeans DVD from Sun Microsystems,

starting with NetBeans RCP,

gentoo linux was the future,

Central America has only three Java Champions,

two Java Champions from Guatemala and they joined the bootcamp,

writing code for Blackberry in Java and J2ME,

enjoying Glassfish and Java EE 6 for backend development,

going to Brazil and switching to ML, Scala and Spark,

betting on Java EE, Jakarta EE, MicroProfile,

JUG in Guatema is the oldest in the country,

winning the Duke Choice Award for Duke Adventures,

meeting Bruno Souza,

checkout episode "#170 Java, OpenSource and the Brazilian Christmas" with Bruno Souza,

"knowledge and clouds" - is nabenik in Mayan - victor's company,

Java EE, Jakarta EE, MicroProfile are great platforms for building products and consulting,

working on-premise openshift, AWS and Azure,

working with Payara Micro, Quarkus on OpenShift,

packaging old Java EE codes as AWS Lambda,