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Commodore 64 in 1984, Commodore 128D in 1986, creating a Star Wars game, approaching the dark star, a Gateway XT with 20 MB hard drive and 640kB RAM, playing with DBase IV, Lotus 1-2-3 and Delphi, implementing software for baseball statistics in 1989, surviving a Giants game in San Francisco, learning C++, Modula 2 and assembly programming at university, the JavaONE session marathon, learning Java in 1999, enjoying Java programming, starting at IBM Global Services Australian, introduction to the enterprise world with PL 1, Job Control Language (JCL), AIX, CICS and CTG, starting to work with Java 1.2 at an insurance company, building a quotation engine in Java, wrapping JNI layer to reuse legacy C++ code, creating the first web UIs with Java with JSPs and Servlets, PowerBuilder and Borland JBuilder, enjoying the look and feel of Visual Age for Java and JBuilder, Symantec Visual Cafe for Java, Sun Studio Java Workshop had the worst look and feel, writing backend integration logic with XSLT and XML in Dublin, Apache FOP and Apache Cocoon, XSLT transformations in browser, enjoying the marquee tag, using SeeBeyond eWay integration in London, switching to chordiant Java EE CRM solution, using XDoclet to generate EJBs, from XDoclet to annotations, wrapping, abstracting and Aspect Oriented Programming framework, it is hard to find business use cases for AOP, J2EE already ships with built-in aspects, enterprise architecture and UML, using IBM Rational Software Modeler for architectures, driving a truck with tapes as migration, the Amazon Snowmobile Truck, never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of hard disks, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway", Andrew S. Tanenbaum, building stock trading platform in Sydney with J2EE, Complex Event Processing (CEP) with J2EE and JBoss, attending JBoss World in Florida and meeting Pete Muir, starting with Seam 2 to write a CRM solution for weddings, contributing to Seam 3, creating annotation-based i18n solution, joining RedHat consulting, migrating from Oracle Application Server to JBoss EAP 5, joining RedHat engineering, leading portlet bridge from JBoss Portal project, starting pro