The Lightguard and the Quarkus Cookbook

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 )?, Jason Porter on twitter: @lightguardjp and linkedin