The JavaSpecialist(s)

An airhacks.fm conversation with Heinz Kabutz ( @heinzkabutz ) about: a quarter of overheated ZX Spectrum , programming to make life easier, going to school in Cape Town, you will never fill up a 10 MB hard drive, a PC with 20 MB hard drive, GW Basic on AEG, the language of Nelson Mandela, learning Pascal , Scheme, prolog , the University of Cape Town is the best, playing snooker , context switchting and programming, Java Swing's Napkin Look & Feel , perception is important, writing an ERP system, login dialog as an intelligent progress bar, the South African masters, Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java book, curses - text bases user interfaces, starting with Java 1.0, Jini , JavaSpaces and Jiro , eating recursion for breakfast, measuring the performance of the ForkJoinPool , the java specialists newsletter, jcrete conference, Heinz Kabutz on twitter: @heinzkabutz , Heinz's website: www.javaspecialists.eu