Trains, Filmschool, Java on RaspberryPI, Quarkus and MicroProfile

An airhacks.fm conversation with Frank Delporte (@FrankDelporte) about: first experiences in computer club - a retail store, C64 love with 11, enjoying printing a line of text repeatedly, a book by elektor about C64 and hardware, controlling lego trains with soldered relay boards with C64, disco bar with peek and pokes, programming over games, film school in a castle in Vorst, bombastic intros to movies with Amiga 500 at technical film school, editing documentaries and cooking shows, burning 15 seconds of video on 15 MB CD-ROMs business cards, programming with Macromedia Director in Lingo, Lingo became ActionScript with Flex Builder, bringing videos to websites, programming CMS with C# and MS-Access, migrating to MySQL, clean and beautiful HTML markup with MS FrontPage, suspicious web editors, Flex 2 backend with streaming data and charts, writing applications with Flex 3 with C# backend, desktop applications in the browser with Flex, Steve Job's "no flash", building passenger information systems at: www.televic-rail.com, flash on all devices, automation of rail station announcements, replacing flash with browser, adobe donated flex to apache, compiling Flex to HTML and JavaScript, syncing powered-off trains, C# was a moving target, Java is stable, killing a train blocks passengers, challenging kids to program at coderdojo.com and devoxx4kids.org, powerful and underestimated RaspberryPI, the killer use case is the GPIO, the story behind RaspberryPI, the ToC of "Getting Started with Java on RaspberryPI", PI4j by Robert Savage, JavaFX for RaspberryPI, using RaspberryPI as a server / edge device, running Quarkus with Panache on RaspberryPI, Quarkus starts 3 times faster as Apache Spring on RaspberryPI in JVM mode, Quarkus native mode didn't ran on RaspberryPI / ARM, starting with Quarkus and MicroProfile was easy, clusters with turingpi.com, migration from Spring to Quarkus took a few hours, Frank Delporte on twitter: @FrankDelporte, Frank's blog: webtechie.be and Frank's book: "Getting Started with Java on Raspberry Pi"