SGI, NCSA Mosaic, Sun, Java, JSF, Java EE, Jakarta EE and Clouds

An airhacks.fm conversation with Ed Burns (@edburns) about:

Ti 99 4a with speech synthesis, Secrets of the Rockstars Programmer book, Apple 2c with word processing and laser mouse, Superman 2, collecting half cents as rounding errors, War Games and Tron, the Logo programming language with a turtle, enjoying playing trumpet, marching band and a binary trumpet, The Nullpointers Band, Fourier Transforms for music quantification at high school, just intonation and the key changes, equal temperement on piano, retuning the keyboard on the fly, applying at Sun Microsystems, Lighthouse Design and Objectivec-C, working at Silicon Graphics and the nice O2 workstation, working on NCSA Mosaic browser at NCSA, learning Pascal and C++ at the university, working on Common Client Interface on Mosaic Browser, inperson conference system, talent vs. grit, grit over talent, floyd marinescu started the theserverside.com, the Spyglas Browser, the SGI Cosmo and VRML, SGI IRIX operating system, commodity vs. boutique fights at SGI, joining Sun's Lighthouse Design group, building a Java-based productivity suite, building a multi-dimensional spreadsheet: quantrix, NextStep Appkits vs. Swing, the AOL Sun-Netscape alliance, OJI - Open Java VM Interface the SPI for Applets, Project Panama - the new JNI, the popularity of Struts was the motivation for JSF, Craig McLanaham and Amy Fowler started to work on JSF, JSF code name was moonwalk, Hans Muller and the Swing Application Framework (JSR-296), the Java Community Process passion, IETF and W3C are like JCP, "Innovation Happens Elsewhere" book, JSF and Spring XML-based dependency injection, ATG dynamo jhtml, JSF 2.0 composite components, JSF was a hot technology with multiple component implementations RichFaces, icefaces, PrettyFaces, Liferay, PrimeFaces and MyFaces, the initial JSF target was page-based corporate apps, the AJAX experience conference and Ben Galbraith, Martin Marinschek from Irian, Josh Juneau and the famous blog post, building a proprietary Java-based docker orchestration framework on top of Apache Mesos at Oracle, Java EE on Azure, riding the crest, Ed's journey from client to server to cloud

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