Long Coding Nights, ShrinkWrap, Arquillian and Testing

An airhacks.fm conversation with Andrew Lee Rubinger (@alrubinger) about: GW-BASIC to reprogram a classic piece of music with the sound command, playing games in a spreadsheet of lotus 1-2-3, CDs or MP3s, the undeclared student, studying music production in New York, excited about the the intentionally difficult programming class in Massachusetts, learning Java in early 2000's, discovering Java servers, JBoss 2x and Java EE is the coolest thing, programming Monte Carlo simulations to pay for a flight, becoming a global publisher with the web, chatting over speaking, self-study addiction, long coding nights, a music streaming client with Java EE backend, building an educational, grade online tracking system, JBoss was free and it didn't suck, contributing patches to EJB container, a hard job interview at JBoss, creating the ShrinkWrap library, creating Arquillian, Arquillian's strength are integration and system tests with the ease of unit tests, with ShrinkWrap you can provide multiple deployments, the use cases for grey box tests, testing transactions is tricky, starting the DevNation conference, from application servers to kubernetes, containers and clouds, reasonable Java EE 6 applications should work in the clouds without any major modifications, 5mins from nothing to the first DB access, the time to "hello, world", from configuring everything to convention over configuration Andrew Lee Rubinger on twitter: @alrubinger, linkedin and github