From PHP to Java: Building Tools, Frameworks, and AI-Assisted IDEs

An airhacks.fm conversation with Steve Hannah about:

meeting Steve Hannah at JavaOne years ago via Codename One,

the Apple IIGS as a first computer,

floppy disk games and Bob Whitehead's Hardball!,

starting web development in 1997 with Perl and CGI,

the O'Reilly Perl camel book,

CGI security issues and the parallel to LLM tools,

choosing Java Servlets over CGI for startup-time performance,

moving to PHP for quick and dirty web development,

PHP evolving toward enterprise patterns with Zend,

Symfony and Laravel,

PHP at Cloudbeds as a serious enterprise language,