Episode 208
From Punched Cards to Java 11
A conversation with Glenn Holmer about the transition from punched card to Java 11
airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien · adam-bien.com
September 18, 202259m 3s
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Show Notes
An airhacks.fm conversation with Glenn Holmer (@gholmer) about:
astrology, TRS-80, Radio Shack, learning Basic, RPG and COBOL in 8 month, working for weyco group incorporated, learning assembly with core dumps, blanks instead of zeros, enjoying modern Cobol, running warehouse software on Novell Netware, starting with Java 1.1 in 1997, anonymous inner classes and JDBC were introduced with Java 1.1, AS 400 support for Java was excellent, Java and NDS, running Applets in a browser, HotJava the browser in Java, icefaces and ICEBrowser, creating a web app with Java servlets, starting with Tomcat, switching to Glassfish, starting with plain editors, then NetBeans, Programmers Paradise, CodeWarrior metrowerks, forte for java IDE, becoming the very first Java programmer, the ultrasonic box scanner, migrating from GlassFish to Payara, writing millions lines of code with a team of five, remembering jEdit
Glenn Holmer on twitter: @gholmer