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Fun

• Throwing spaghetti code in toxic waste
• 80s – Ken as pac man and Mala as ghost.
  • 8 bit characters.
  • Power pill.
  • Make pong and spaghetti code monster.
  • Text based code scrolls by
  • Duke scares it off
• 90’s – Mario and Lugi 64 bit.
  • Netscape “Browser” as Bowser.
  • ”Applets are full of security holes. That should defeat bowser”.
  • Henri opened Visual Cafe and Visual J++
• 2000 – Angry Birds and Lasagna code. The eagle as an inflatable costume is awesome.
  • XML and EJB and Struts
  • “XML is like human. Cute when small. Gets annoying as it gets bigger”.
  • Groovy and Scala.
  • I like Venkat coding in Sublime just like in his real presentations.
  • Other languages motivate Java to move forward (ex: pattern matching, lambdas).
  • Spring – giant slinky.
  • Convention over configuration. Grails.
• 2010’s – Minecraft
  • Minecraft written in Java in 2009
  • As a service
  • Ravioli code
  • Java acquired superpowers – Invoke dynamic, Method handles, lambdas
  • Java ascends to cloud
  • New heros – spring cloud, micronaut, microprofile, quarkus

My take

This was hilarious. I like that they wrote who the people were on the screen. The historic references were incredible. Happy ending. “Community wins” and Duke comes out. Throw clouds at bad guys