From Personal Java, over Java EE to Serverless and back to the Java Platform

An airhacks.fm conversation with David Delabassee (@delabassee) about:

C-64, Commodore 128, Amiga 500, and Amiga 2000, Basic then assembler, developing a basic horse racing statistics application, saving the state to the tape, understanding Peeks and Pokes, Amiga 500 vs. Atari ST, extending Amiga 2000 with a PC board, starting to program Turbo Pascal on a PC, the 47 MB hard disk, a vectorized walking person in Turbo Pascal, the War Games movie, the acoustic coupler, the U.S Robotics modems, identifying modems by sound, writing a terminal application, learning how to learn, using Vax VMS at the university, a pigeon-based failsafe system, creating a word processor in C to write Safety Data Sheets, writing backend application for Motorola Unix running on Motorola Hardware, discovering Java applets in 1995, teletext and minitel, developing a web phone in 1997 in Personal Java, booting a phone in 15 minutes, building a TV set top box for Navio, starting at Sun Microsystems and Javasoft as pre-sales and a Java Ambassador, Java Developer Connection (JDC) and Duke Dollars, Java EE evangelist at Oracle, inspiring JavaOne conferences, spending time with Glassfish in the "field", working on EE4J and Java EE to Jakarta EE transition, the trigger of open sourcing the Java EE platform, moving to serverless organization at Oracle, FN project is used under the hood of Oracle Functions, joining the Java platform group, launching the Java Inside podcast, launching the inside.java website focussing on Java SE platform

David Delabassee on twitter: @delabassee