An airhacks.fm conversation with Jason Porter (@lightguardjp) about:

From old 8086 in the late 80-ties, to a Pentium,

old GW-BASIC games like snake and gorillas,

finding game source by accident,

learning Java in 21 days - with a book,

fascination with Java Applets,

learning C++ at middle school,

writing C code with Metrowerks CodeWarrior,

learning pointers with 14,

building OCR in C at high school,

Pearl and PHP before Neumont University,

contributing to FlySpray the bugtracker,

building inventory application with C# and WinForms,

building a scrapbook with full-text search in 10 weeks,

accessing lucene from C#,

first Java project for the State of Utah with JBoss Portal,

a JDBC wrapper around LDAP,

building a client library to wrap SOAP,

curiosity about Java EE 5,

creating student portfolios with Java EE 5, EJB 3, JSF and GlassFish,

commercial support was available from Sun Microsystems for Glassfish,

there was a lag between JBoss and WildFly versions,

working with ATG dynamo for oc tanner,

accelerating ETL and data validation with Java EE 5 and JMS,

increasing performance with JBoss from a day to one and half hour,

joining the Seam Team at RedHat,

Seam Solder became Apache Delta Spike,

DeltaSpike became the groundwork for e.g. MicroProfile Config,

Injection, Outjection and Bijection,

from Java to Ruby,

from Ruby to Drupal,

form Drupal back to Java and Quarkus,

asciidoc is like markdown, but better,

contributing to Quarkus,

joining forces with Alex Soto for Quarkus Cookbook,

Kubernetes operators with Quarkus,

why lightguard (@lightguardjp)?,