An airhacks.fm conversation with David Blevins (@dblevins) about:
Atari 800, then Atari 2600,
playing Pitfall!,
enjoying Apple II,
enjoying the M.U.L.E. game,
the creative art kid,
working at Public-access station,
making special effects with Amiga 500,
the Monday the 13th horror movie,
specializing on make-up,
halloween was a working day,
the amazing B.B. King,
learning blues,
studying psychology,
going to Ecuador,
going to Brown College in Minnesotta,
hitting a truck with a mini van,
a nice truck driver,
starting the iWeb company,
working with Apple,
developing websites with HTML and JavaScript,
80k salary for a Java developer in 1998,
learning Java 1.0 in a week,
working as Java consultant,
working on Visual Basic and Java integration,
writing a web server,
hotsite, Silverstream, Jigsaw,
working with NorthWest Bank with Swing and CORBA backend,
using visigenics ORB,
the power of source code,
using com.sun.swing,
the cancellation of a 35 million project,
writing JDBC drivers for PostgreSQL,
generating code in bash and Pearl,
David Blevins on twitter: @dblevins and David's company: tomitribe