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Amstrad PC 1512, the first PC computer ever made by Amstrad, two floppies are better than a hard drive, deleting double dots, C/PM OS, BIOS as cheating detection, creating snake game in BASIC, playing with Turbo Pascal, from GO TOs over loops to procedures, objects, aspects to functional programming, exploring Mandrake Linux, Tibco Messaging and C++, killing yourself with casting, the C discipline checker - an enforced linter, 120 errors caused by Coke break, no version control -- no time machine, starting with Java 1.2, replacing buttons with images in Swing / AWT, memory leaks in Java UI, creating ASP websites for fnac, building shopping cart with VB, going back with Visual Basic debugger, exploring Java as C# alternative, WebSphere vs. WebLogic, WebLogic was the JBoss of early 2000's, Apache Excalibur container, editing TopLink files with Eclipse IDE, replacing TopLink with early Hibernate, providing Hibernate support, the Rational Unified Process Workbench, hacking the organization is important, the gradient from hacking to politics, JOnAS was big in France, translating Hibernate documentation, patching Hibernate via CVS and email, Gavin King, Oracle and annotations as XML replacement, xdoclet was a great EJB annotation PoC, Cedric Beust created XDoclet, early Apache Geronimo participation, a French engineer will only tell you what you can do better, XML mapping with deeply nested annotations as prototype, EJB 3 specification comprised the component model and the persistence, Eclipse IDE was late with annotation support, working on EntityManager API with Bill Burke, joining forces with Java Data Objects (JDO) to participate on JPA, switching from fnac to JBoss, the first day at JBoss, Gaving King and Christian Bauer were Hibernate consultants, Steve Ebersole worked on Hibernate Core and Max Andersen on Eclipse tooling, Gavin King implemented an early bean validation prototype and Emmanuel took it over, contributing to a mature opensource project is really hard, Google App Engine wanted to use Hibernate as persistence backend, then google decided to use datanucleus.org, Book Driven Development is better than Conference Driven Development, Emmanuel started OGM - the Object Grid Mapper, in NoSQL space the model is simpler, JSON-P or JSON-B can be used as replacement for JPA entities, JDBC is hard to use what explains the success of ORM products, RedHat acquired JBoss, the switch from 200 employee company to 2000 employees company, developer is king at RedHat, RedHat acquired JBoss right after the introduction of JPA, becoming an architect, debezium was started by Randall Hauch then continued by Gunnar Morling, creating architecture slides with Google Docs, throughput driven optimizations, with containers throughput becomes less important, Java was designed for throughput and not memory efficiency and startup time, openJDK team, middleware team at Redhat had conversations about the future of Jav