An airhacks.fm conversation with Benjamin Marwell (@bmarwell) about:

C64 with 3.5 years,

enjoying Pitstop, Pharaoh's Curse and Lady Tut,

starting to program in Basic from a manual,

modifying the game source,

starting with Pascal and Visual Basic,

storing the universe into an Excel file,

automating a space game with Delphi,

implementing a web crawler in Delphi,

the "King of Galaxy Wars" and OGame,

playing trombone in the army,

starting at Finanzinformatik the datacenter for the German saving banks,

studying in Hameln business informatics and learning Java 6,

programming with 31-bit computing with IBM assembly,

starting with 0xCAFEBABE,

switching to monitoring department and using BMC Patrol,

the web and application servers department,

deploying a few hundred applications to WebSphere Liberty,

using Apache FreeMarker to generate 'WebSphere Liberty configuration,

microservice deployment with WebSphere Liberty,

Apache Maven and Apache Shiro Committer,

building JavaFX application with jlink,

contributing to JLink,

creating sprites for Legend of Zelda,

podcasts with Robert Scholte "#25 Maven Commitment" and "#28 More Conventions with Maven.next",

using Apache Shiro for permission checks,

combining security with Bean Validation - a podcast with David Blevins "#156 Bash, Apple and EJB, TomEE, Geronimo and Jakarta EE",

Nexus is using Apache Shiro