The JavaSpecialist(s)

An airhacks.fm conversation with Heinz Kabutz (@heinzkabutz) about:

a quarter of overheated ZX Spectrum, programming to make life easier, going to school in Cape Town, you will never fill up a 10 MB hard drive, a PC with 20 MB hard drive, GW Basic on AEG, the language of Nelson Mandela, learning Pascal, Scheme, prolog, the University of Cape Town is the best, playing snooker, context switchting and programming, Java Swing's Napkin Look & Feel , perception is important, writing an ERP system, login dialog as an intelligent progress bar, the South African masters, Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java book, curses - text bases user interfaces, starting with Java 1.0, Jini, JavaSpaces and Jiro, eating recursion for breakfast, measuring the performance of the ForkJoinPool, the java specialists newsletter, jcrete conference,

Heinz Kabutz on twitter: @heinzkabutz, Heinz's website: www.javaspecialists.eu