An airhacks.fm conversation with Robert Brem (@bremrobert) about:

Windows 95 with 15 for gaming, Nascar watching Korean StarCraft streams, writing the first Hello World in Visual Basic for Excel,

in programming you can retrying without breaking anything, in ABAP everything had four letters,

automating Excel merges with visual mode "on", hiding ABAP skills, ABAP could strike back with: Abular.js, Java 5 was released in September 2004,

Generics were introduced with Java SE 6, annotations with Java SE 5, Sun Certified Programmer Certification was really hard,

connecting WII controller to ActionScript 3, developing games in ActionScript 3,

J2EE was too much, sustainable economics game as master thesis, saving the state of the game by serializing the board,

the HSR in Rapperswil the beatiful place for lazy students, Peter Sommerlad was a demanding teacher but introduced Jenkins and automation,

getting the color of the surface from satellites, the hosted GWT was slow, Spring Implementation of EJB container - project Pitchfork (now https://oss.oracle.com/projects/pitchfork/),

deleting over upgrade, dependencies are fun for green field projects, the sequence of joy: GWT, ABAP and Eclipse RCP, the mensa club, the most sophisticated loading screen ever,

the multi-dimensional Map (MapMap) solves all problems, automating infrastructure with Vagrant, Ansible and Packer,

www.confirm.ch, all nails in the food has to be published in Switzerland, lit-html is the only dependency in the frontend and only Jakarta EE in the backend,

sub MB ThinWARs and a few seconds deployment, building an entire application on one day,