Yeah and it runs GREAT on Linux. Like a rock.

Yeah but in a MORPG, I'll bet when you want a character to group with, you'll pick the black guy over the white guy in a fight.

Wait, we did fool them twice. Once with the dotcom bubble and then again with the Housing crash. Technically we fooled them several times if you take into consideration penny stocks and the federal savings and loan scandal as well. So maybe its more like 'fool me a couple dozen times, shame on my investors'

Oh and if you are curious what the material was, you can see some of it here and here

It's free as in 'beer'. The API pattern is broken as it creates an architectural cross cutting concern when scaling out. I showed this at SpringOne and coded a solution for it as well improving on existing api patterns. To date, I have all code and have coded all solutions and while people could copy and rebuild, it is going to take the awhile without me as I actually have more of a head start than they know; the code has been partially coded in spring-boot as well and improved upon in a variety of ways. This has also been shown to Apple, Paypal, Amazon, Mulesoft with equal amazement... except Amazon. They somehow were stupified like deer in headlights. But I'm not surprised as each time I talk to them, they set me up with an idiot from some other dept.

OH really? I interviewed at Netflix for an API Engineering position and had the API Manager tell me that what I had been developing on the side 'fixes alot of what we are having problems with'. They then didn't hire me but invited their entire development team to my talk the next week. I have done a talk at SpringOne 2014, been invited to talk to Mashery's development team twice and am considered the leader in API automation... but can't find work to save my life. Mind you... I'm 45 in the Valley as well. :)

The barest metal web language? seriously? maybe we have a different definition of 'metal'. If you are talking scripting languages, Groovy is going to kill everything because it's based on the JVM, can build Android apps, is used for Gradle builds, Spock and even Grails as well as shell scripting. The only thing it can't do is client side. And if you statically code it, it can even be FASTER than Java at times (believe it or not).

Why do we have to give corporations anything? The US is the one with a friggin army. Go in an sieze the friggin funds and tell them tough fuckin cookies. And at the same time cut back their HB-1 visas and start negotiations. They can either start moving jobs back and hiring LOCAL developers and LOWER C-level wages, or we are going to continue to play hard ball.

Yes millenia... we were banging rocks together in open offices called caves. But eventually we became civilized and stopped feeding from open troughs and learned to walk upright too.

You have to sell yourself through your projects.

Not really. They interview me BECAUSE of my tools and development. They see what I am developing and thats the main reason they want to interview me. I remember Apples excuse was that they didn't even fully support REST yet. Amazon interviewed me 3 different times, were completely confused and in the end , rejected because I don't have a degree... regardless of the fact I'm a founding team member. PayPal just couldn't find a team to put me on. As the saying goes, it would be a comedy it it wasn't a tragedy :)

I created API I/O Abstraction, APIObject and API Chaining, show them working in Grails API Toolkit, am developing them out in spring-boot and have been interviewed by Amazon, Apple, Paypal, Netflix, Comcast... literally everyone but Google. But have yet to land a job. Mainly because from what I am told, my work is great but too cutting edge, just what they need but would require a rewrite, fantastic but not in the tools they want, etc etc. I'm finding you can create tools that will change the world but even if everyone agrees that they would and that they need them, they may not be ready.

Yeh and real tech cities like the Bay Area don't use .Net either though. Oracle, Pivotal, Sun, Spring, Groov, Grails... they all dominate here.