An airhacks.fm conversation with Brian Benz (@bbenz) about:

C64,

writing an inspirational notes app in Basic,

writing software on paper cards for Apple,

exploring gas fields in the see with Lotus 123 and dBASE,

working on System 38,

travelling Europe with train and bicycle,

writing replication engine in Clipper-llrp,

floppy disc replication,

Lotus Notes and CouchDB,

Lotus Notes by Iris Associates,

The Lotus Notes and Domino 6 Programming Bible book,

The XML Programming Bible,

writing a XML replication engine,

LexisNexis,

using Apache Xerces and Apache Xalan,

Append-only storage,

job interview at Microsoft in XML area,

Apache POI,

Microsoft Open Tech,

using AWS as XML search API,

joining the first JavaOne