An airhacks.fm conversation with Lenny Primak (@lprimak) about:

fortran as wallpaper: 2 x 6m,

violin lessons are the price,

commodore vic 20,

assembler love,

C++ is the best,

financial backends with sybase,

SQLJ,

Sun C++ compiler with painful templates,

C++ is actually a terrible language,

the killer Java feature,

binary C++ libraries are a nightmare,

designing stock indices on paper for complexity reduction,

building mortgage calculators,

flying as a hobby,

building market makers,

truck scheduling system,

Java EE just works,

starting with JBoss 4,

Java EE productivity for small business apps,

JBoss 4 to JBoss 5 migration didn't work,

switching from JBoss 4 to GlassFish 3,

PrimeFaces and OmniFaces on GlassFish,

GlassFish admin console,

switching from GlassFish to Payara,

embraer 145 regional jet,

Payara people are amazing,

hazelcast and grizzly contributions,

the specialisation on difficult problems,

what is Boundary Control Entity (BCE)?,

duplication vs. overengineering,

ultra fast proxy server,

blocking vs. non-blocking system,

tuning the thread stack size,

high scalability with blocking Java EE server,

building Comet communication with GlassFish,

single GlassFish handled multiple thousand connections,

Java Fibers may be the solution to scalability problems,

thoughts on project lombok