The Open-Closed Principle and Lots of Magic

An airhacks.fm conversation with Lincoln Baxter III ( @lincolnthree ) about: the broken Apple Mac Plus, accidental computer repair, Crystal Quest , Spectre , playing MechWarrior , programming logo at school, ACS logo , counting to a million with a shell script, writing a Galaga clone for a TI-92 writing a multiplexing socket chat server in C++ at high school, Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ book, the year 2000 crisis, University of Pennsylvania , writing business applications in Java for vanguard , "shared nothing architecture" , project leads had to enjoy xml, Vienna is in Austria :-), the open closed principle , encapsulating the complexity, never write abstractions first, design patterns, writing project management software with Java Server Faces, J2EE / Java EE, SocialPM , the maven project generator: JBoss Forge , routing in Java with Java Server Faces (JSF) PrettyFaces , joining the Java Server Faces expert group, seam framework , code generation covers up a bad design, jboss forge is also an interpreter, starting prettytime as a side project, focussing on the game Magic the Gathering , starting a new startup: topdecked.com , working on windup - the application server migration project, building backend with NodeJS , building a hybrid app for iOS and android, using web components, lit-html without any indirections, GWT is a Java to JavaScript compiler, Apps With MicroProfile online workshop, Isomorphic JavaScript , Quarkus vs. NodeJS, Quarkus relies on familiar MicroProfile and Java EE APIs, Quarkus application is smaller than empty Apache Tomcat , Magic The Gathering by Wizards of the Coast , the MTG rules, topdecked.com discount codes: 50% off any new subscription for 12 months: AwavWXNj 100% off for 6 months (new monthly plans only): xzPVPRwh New members: https://www.topdecked.com/signup Existing members / if you have an account: https://www.topdecked.com/account(detail:account/plans) Lincoln Baxter III on twitter: @lincolnthree , Lincoln's side projects: www.ocpsoft.org and his main project: topdecked.com