An airhacks.fm (https://airhacks.fm) conversation with Axel Fontaine (@axelfontaine (https://twitter.com/axelfontaine) ) about:
starting with 8086 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086) and 640 kB,
starting with GW Basic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC) ,
enjoying Alley Cat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Cat_(video_game)) and Monkey Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Island) on Sega Master (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_System) ,
switching to QBasic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic) ,
protecting the lemmings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(video_game)) ,
the cyber cafe Cyberia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia,_London) in London,
learning Turbo Pascal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal) ,
impressed by Java (https://www.java.com/en/) Applets,
starting in 1998 at IBM Global Services,
using Visual Age for Java (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisualAge) ,
travelling the world,
the envy version control for Visual Age (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Visual_Age) for java,
attending JavaPolis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devoxx) , qcon (https://qconlondon.com/) ,
first talk at JUG Augsburg about Continuous Delivery,
the Continous Delivery Book,
Ruby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)) DSL migrations,
“data will outlive the code”,
database outlives the code,
the travel report website,
Flyway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyway) – the migration path for birds,
using JDBC (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jdbc/) metadata for schema migrations,
promoting FlywayDB (https://flywaydb.org) ,
paid features and support contracts,
running migrations on application startup,
the Java EE (https://javaee.github.io) simplicity
Axel Fontaine on twitter: @axelfontaine (https://twitter.com/axelfontaine)